"Similarly, Jannica Hagfors wasn’t literal with her inspirations, though they were quite specific—woodlands and the culture of the Forest Finns, migrants who lived in the forests of Sweden and Norway in the 16th and 17th centuries, who used a slash-and-burn method to clear land for farming. Hagfors e
ffectively spun her historical references out, creating nature-inspired prints and laser-cutting leathers to “replicate the texture of ashes.”