raft tradition but at the same time challenge a material that is thrown and a tradition that is forgotten. The result is a variety of products, from more sculptural pieces to knitting patterns, to be able to communicate the message to different parts of society. 

Through my bachelor work a close familiymember got sick. The project started to envolve more around my love for and grief with this person but also the distance, physically the distance from Oslo to the little island in middle norway my family is from but also the distance in society and ways of living. It was so important to me that this was a personal project but also a secret one. I feel that through my years at KHiO we have been encouraged to use and share personal experiences in our work, so i also wanted this to experiment on how we as artist/designers can work with personal matter without over sharing and selling personal(private) experiences for recognition.

Therefor i chose to use historical refrences and known rituals to represent personal feelings like love/grief/hope/anxiety but also political issues when it comes to class and womens place in society. The project is named «Muro! Muro!» and its from a 300 year old norwegian poem that is supposed to keep the nightmare away.

Explanation on the pictures after the looks:

1. bunad: a big part of the beginnning of the project was to educate myself on norwegian bunad history. The clothes will not in any way look like a Bunad, but they wil represent the history of an elite definding a lower class from a certain geografical position. Some of the ornaments are also inspired by ornaments found on me and my familys own bunad.

2: folk art: i also found some ornaments in different folk art pieces. And also adopted the way of decorating your surroundings with painting.

3: folk belif rituals: i use three rituals 1) skjebnetråd: its about finding love with your own spun thread( i’ve also spun some of the yarn in this project), 2) Mara: the rituals to keep te nightmare away, 3) ølhøne: the last outfit is a two cuped beer cup with bird looks which they used in weddings.

4: just <3wool<3 and a fitting to highlight the importance of norwegian wool not beeing thrown away!

5: knitting patterns: some photos from one of the knitters that helped me experienting with how to make patterns and communicate my vision to a costumer