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Through the process
Anniken Amundsen's otherworldly biomorphic textural forms were one of the hits of Through the Surface, the 2004 cross cultural textile designers exhibition.
Here Amundsen talks about the personal journey, which brought her to creating these forms, and how the exhibition's mentoring exchange visit to Japan opened her up to a new relation with the world of nature.
Amundsen was first drawn to textiles as a therapeutic activity; "to make the days go by," while being treated for the lymph cancer.
Anniken amundsen biography sample
She enjoyed working with a loom and weaving, though soon wanted to take what she was doing several steps further, experimenting with all sorts of non-traditional new materials. These included pipe cleaners, rubber, cellophane, various elastics, metal chains, fluorescent plastic tubes, and electrical wires.
Recently she has been working with more durable rubber materials such as silicone tubes and oil based rubbers like Nitrile. Nitrile, she says, has "a more abstra