How can I give more depth and more layers to a textile portrait? That question has been on my mind for months.
I have therefore been conducting intensive research into materials and techniques for months. Looking for contrast. A material or technique that dares to push boundaries. A structure that evokes tension alongside the soft yarn.
That research became a series of experiments with felt, cork, wood, knitted thread, rope and buttons. Always with one goal in mind: to find a texture that not only supports a portrait but also provides contrast and gives the work a whole new layer.
The knots kept coming back.
And I was going to enlarge that.
Hundreds of hand-knotted knots. Knotted one by one, secured one by one by hand. Not woven. Deliberately not. Because I tested that too, but then I have less control over the tension, the shape and the layer I want to build up.
The strange thing is... I've been a bit tangled up myself over the past few weeks. And while I was stuck, I kept tying knots. And without even looking for it, the technique became a direction. Getting tangled up, untangling myself and reshaping.
The result is not a side track. It is a new layer that presents itself within my portraits and in my work.
More to follow shortly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hoe kan ik meer diepte en meer lagen geven aan een textielportret? Die vraag houdt me al maanden bezig. Ik ben dan ook al maanden bezig met intensief materiaal- en techniekonderzoek. Op zoek naar een contrast. Een materiaal of techniek die durft te duwen. Een structuur die spanning oproept naast het zachte garen. Dat onderzoek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,107,76],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sustainable-art","tag-textiel","tag-textielkunst"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steil.studio\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}