Sometimes you want to touch memories (ENG)

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Sometimes you want to touch memories (2023)

When you experience a farewell or loss, things are often left behind. Items that form tangible memories of what you lost or said goodbye to. We deal with those things in different ways: we keep them in a box, we display them in our house or we give them away.

Sometimes you want to touch memories is about how we can deal with textiles that are left behind after a loss or farewell. Textile is something very intimate, because it is close to our skin and has a protective function. By reworking or transforming the textile that remains behind, I want to give it a place in people's lives again. Together with them I enter into a process in which we look for how we can integrate the remaining textiles into their daily textiles. By giving the preserved textiles a new place, there is also a new and more active place for the memory.

- Ona -

‘But it has become even more valuable and it’s like, it’s like she’s no longer alone like this, it’s together with the family, which I think is really beautiful.’

- Alex -

‘It was emotional, but also beautiful that two or three shirts became one again, like we were one as a couple.’

- Marc -

‘The moment you take that blanket, thoughts flash through your mind, which can be very diverse, from very nice things, but also the rather sad things, that we have experienced.’

- Nancy -

‘But I also thought that was beautiful, because I have so many clothes from mom that I wanted to do something with them and not just leave them there.’

- Hilde -

‘But it was very interesting for me because it also gave me space to continue talking about my mother.’

- Kezia -

‘Now it was as if, well, yes, as if she was much closer again.’

- Tone -

‘I’m proud to say, that’s a part of grandpa and we did something with it.’

- Mia & Hilde -

‘I knew she was there and that was all and now I could really do something with it and I actually liked the idea of her coming back into life.’