Swimming Pool
2017 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
My project started with two words: Swimming Pool. They came to me through a song, Banshee Beat by Animal Collective (2005). To me, their music is mystical, abstract, unpredictable and also metaphorical. So I started to think about if a swimming pool could be something more than just an open container filled with water. After some thinking I came to the conclusion that it could be a metaphor for something calm, quiet and dreamy. However, I’m not sure but my aim is not to get to a specific answer through this project.
I’ll turn the metaphor into a textile work that portrays what you see when you’re standing at the edge of the swimming pool; a distorted picture of a grid, the bottom of the pool. I’ll be working with dyeing, patchwork and quilting. The textile craft is important in this project because of how relaxed and calm I get by doing things with my hands.
The questions I’m asking myself are how I can express the metaphor through my work? What if my interpretation is too wide? Is it possible for me to create a tactile and calm feeling without the physical touch?
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. , p. 23
Keywords [sv]
Swimming Pool, Swimmingpool, Metafor, Konsthantverk, Textil, Textilkonst, Avkoppling, Meditativt arbete
National Category
Visual Arts
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5827OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-5827DiVA, id: diva2:1106022
Educational program
Textile (Bachelor)
Supervisors
2017-06-162017-06-062017-06-16Bibliographically approved