Safety Knot - Lace Found in Translation

"This year marks ten years since the desire to find lace for the Hematoma art installation brought me to Idrija. The idea of ​​translating photographs of shadows from my periodic table of shadow emotions into a pattern of Idrija lace did not seem impossible to Maja Svetlik from the Idrija Lace School. In collaboration with her and the lacemakers of the experimental group, I managed to realize the wish and place concrete Idrija lace in a universal modern context with a meaning acceptable to any environment. Shadow emotions, translated into the twists and turns of Idrija lace and captured in jewelry and crystal, as well as in large spatial installations, reflect not only the twists and turns of life, but also the interweaving. An interweaving that connects us into an unconscious pattern like threads in Idrija lace. We are like threads caught in the loops of emotions in the pattern…