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Like the “temperature blankets”, where the yearly temperature fluctuations are translated into knitted or crocheted \u201cmaps\u201d, my meditation blanket depicts my “inner weather”: I choose the color I am crocheting according to the dominant emotion I\u2019m experiencing. The blanket is a meditation tool in two regards. I use it as an object to lie on or wrap myself in, while I meditate, but I also use crocheting as a meditation exercise. Crocheting provides, what is called in meditation a \u201cmoving target\u201d, a repetitive, soothing movement that helps focus one\u2019s attention. It also provides a concrete support to exercise a technique called RAIN<\/em> (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) training the acceptance of emotions.
In many ways, this project is therapeutic: recording one\u2019s emotional patterns over a long period of time helps gaining self-knowledge and considering the richness of one\u2019s inner life. Through this project, I practice patience and humility; I reclaim control over time, shifting my focus to a time flow that is not that of sickness. In a way, the Meditation Blanket recalls what artist Michelle Grabner defines as \u201cmaintenance art\u201d. This means making art from a place that\u2019s close, that\u2019s guided by the pressure of circumstances, that\u2019s pushed out by the body, in a visceral rather than a cerebral way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition view from Meditation Blanket at Zimmer 117, Halle, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Meditation Blanket, 165 x 160cm in January 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Emotion\/color diagram<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Meditation Blanket (detail), crocheted wool and silk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Meditation Blanket in progress, March 2022, April 2022, August 2022, January 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like the “temperature blankets”, where the yearly temperature fluctuations are translated into knitted or crocheted \u201cmaps\u201d, my meditation blanket depicts my “inner weather”: I choose the color I am crocheting according to the dominant emotion I\u2019m experiencing. The blanket is a meditation tool in two regards. 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