Imprint

The Imprint project examines how family shapes and creates an individual's personality and identity, rooted in experiences and memories seen from a feminist and performative biographical context. As a theoretical backdrop, Ursula K. Le Guin's text "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" is central, where understanding how nature and landscape also help to develop an understanding of identity, survival and what familial ties can mean.

The drawing forms the basis for the project and is examined from a textile perspective. The materials consist of inherited quilting textiles, where the intention is to investigate the quilt's material property and meaning seen from a socio-contextual point of view. In this lies the idea of female and familial unity, and how mothers for generations have passed on their craft knowledge to their daughters.