I want to be rock and mineral, time and space

Abstract

ENG:

In this thesis I am exploring the concept of stone as time, with knitting as measurement. I am using knitting as practice and aesthetics, combining knitting with stone, metal and the concept of time. As starting point I had a desire to become something else, and an idea that this something else could be a stone. A stone, as in different from me, maybe better. The stone is slow, heavy and dense, three things that I as a human am not. Through knitting stones in yarn, copper wire, and casting knitted stones into aluminium, I am examining the differences between us, me and the stone and I am asking if I can be like the stone. I use casting as translation between matters and knitting to transform myself into the stone. By using materials from my life, leftover yarn and thread from my family, used pillows and parts from my own car, I try to knit myself as the stone, or knit the stone like me.