Photo: MoA 2006

Nymphea, detail
Photo: Meri–Pauliina Sundén

Meri–Pauliina Sundén

Textile Art and Design
1970, Finland
Nymphea (Jardin Secret III) – installation
Interpret

In my diploma work I examine the structures of music and weaving using the methods of art weaving, I also explore the behavior of light on a three–dimensional surface.
The work is a three part installation whose two symmetric parts repeat the shapes of the leaves of a water lily and the third part forms a part of the structure of the music’s notation.
The composition I’m using is Kaija Saariaho’s Nymphea (1987) for a string quartet and electronics.
I have transferred a part of the notation of the composition into a simple notation program. The composition pattern that is thus born is used to create a new structure using a weaving program called WeavePoint.
The whole work depicts different spaces on top of each other, like the forms of water lilies and the inner world of music; the phosphoric fiber woven in to the work lives in the dark.

Materials:
tin–coated copper wire 0,75 cm
green see–through fishline 0,75 cm
white ryon ribbon 1,0 cm
phosphoric fiber

Biography

I graduated as an artist in Italy in 1999 and the same year I began studying at the University of Art and Design Helsinki in the School of Design.
In the Italian art academy I had focused primarily on expressing shapes visually, in the textile art programme my topic of research has been the interaction between materials and different textures.
I am interested in the intermediate ground between art and design, and in the interrelations between artefacts and nature.
My dream is to have a small garden of my own.

Contact:

msunden(at)uiah.fi

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Other Masters in this theme:
Tanja Bastamow | Tero Heikkinen | Ville Lenkkeri | Mia Mäkelä | Karoliina Talvitie–Lamberg