Felt Time

Exploration of Relationality through Making, Growing and Surrendering

This project is now archived and was part of DDW24

This project is part of
Interwoven: LUCA meets LUCA

Felt Time, naturally dyed wool, 240cm x 280cm

Stefanie Salzmann

The wool from my parents' sheep and the plant-based dyes I use each have their own temporality. Felt Time is a hand-felted sculpture that embodies a cyclical sense of time and changes in shape and size through activation, reflecting the ongoing processes of growth, decay, and renewal.

Crafting through Connection

Craft techniques like felting and hand-dyeing allow me to engage with wool, flowers, water, and heat through the body, creating a life cycle in which I accompany these resources into sculpted forms. For example, the vibrant yellows, oranges, and greens of various flowers; and the reds of madder roots are applied to the wool according to their harvest seasons, while merging in some parts. Through my work, I aim to build an alternate reality where practices of care and interdependence are placed centrally. Some of the plant dyes are homegrown, or come from community gardens that I am involved in. By engaging in gardening practices, I obtain the necessary resources and become part of a network of mutual support. This reflects in my work ethos which grows out of relations between communities of other humans and more-than-humans.