A Veil, the Earth Covered by Fog, handfelted wool, silk embroidery
Snow covers the fields, cloaking them in a soft, fluffy veil. Everything feels quiet and muffled. Beneath the blanket of snow, one can see the delicate veins of streams, the scattered points of houses, and a patchwork of cultivated land.
I felted the wool by hand, using hot water and grey soap. Through the intense rubbing and pressing of fine layers of carded wool,
I created a pseudo-fabric whose fibers resemble warp and weft. For embroidery, I used silk threads with a touch of mohair, inserting the needle just beneath the surface of the felt—as if piercing skin. These threads reinforced the felt from within. The resulting material evokes the view of snow-covered or fog-shrouded land seen from above. Like snow or fog, felt functions as an acoustic screen—it muffles and absorbs sound. The form is inspired by maps and the irregular surface of the earth. On the white, snow-like fabric, traces of subcutaneous, intersecting rivers, paths, and points emerge—coexisting like past, present, and future.
The map is a veil—a symbol that directly references women’s experiences and herstory. Creating my own veil became an act of emancipation: a way of subverting its strictly bridal symbolism and breaking it away from male presence. The felted material is at once a transparent, airy veil and a structure that resembles fat tissue or folds of snow. To me, the fabric is a body—one that exists between these references. The photographs document the process of working with felt during the creation of the piece—a process in which I was accompanied by women close to me. They show the patchwork made of felt fragments, set against a backdrop of snow-covered fields. An integral part of the work is a sound piece—a collage of conversations and fragments of shared stories, for which the felted fabric creates an intimate listening space. Creating the textile in the presence of other women became a way for me to express my connection with them, and an opportunity to share herstories—some of which resonate through the accompanying sound installation.
