Five

The cups in Five are sewn, shaped, and then translated: from fiber into flint and concrete, the liquid rendered in glass. What interests me is the passage between soft and hard, and what happens in that crossing. The textile logic of the original forms leaves its traces in the mineral surface: the folds, the imprecisions, the small failures of cloth become permanent, elevated, fossilized. What was yielding becomes stone. What was stone holds the shape of something that once gave way.

Water connects us. It moves through bodies, between bodies, across time, carrying memory, loss, and longing. Five is the first work in a series rooted in the tarot suit of Bägare, the suit of water, the suit of the relational. Where hydrofeminist thought understands water not as backdrop but as kin, as the very medium through which we are entangled with one another and with the world, this series asks what it means to seek meaning in the magical, to let ourselves be guided rather than only guided.