Raw Materials, Biesbosch Collection
Substantial water consumption, chemical dyes and worldwide transport make the textile industry a serious pollutant. Jetske Visser has studied new production methods using locally sourced materials. Excess and waste materials from the local industry around the Biesbosch national park, combined with natural resources, formed the starting point for the yarns, dyes and dyeing techniques she has developed. Raw Materials, Biesbosch Collection is an industrially produced, locally sourced collection of fabrics.
Forgotten Memory
What is a teapot when you no longer know what a teapot is? How does a person suffering from dementia experience his or her surroundings? In Jetske Visser’s film Forgotten Memory the viewer is submerged in the world of dementia. From a desire to understand the world of people suffering from the condition, Visser created an image of their hazy, fragile and precarious existence. As a metaphor for the condition she has transformed a series of everyday objects to demonstrate that things are not always what you would expect.
Graduated: 2011
Department: Man and Leisure
Website: www.jetskevisser.nl