We will speak for hours on finish about this, as this can be a fascination that sparked Solitude Studios from the beginning, and we are going to at all times discover new curiosities and questions of how one can strategy it.

Are you able to spotlight a number of the supplies you used this season?
Within the assortment we used a number of materials that we submerged underwater for months and dyed in an area peat lavatory earlier than being minimize into clothes. The lavatory is close to Sophia’s childhood residence. In kindergarten the adults would inform her that the explanation for the lavatory’s red-colored water was that the elves would wash their garments in it. Remembering this story made her notice that we may in actual fact dye our garments there. On the organic facet of it, the water is wealthy in ochre and iron that colours the material, and likewise molds and micro-organisms play an element within the patterns that happen.

The entire cloth we put in there’s manufactured from pure fibers and the material undoubtedly decomposes. If we go away them for too lengthy they merely vanish! We now have had lots of trial and error, each with seasonal modifications of climate and timing to get the appropriate consequence. At any time when it fails, we summarize it [by saying], ‘the lavatory provides, and the lavatory takes.’ It takes us two full days to wash every cloth after retrieving it from the lavatory.

Why is the gathering referred to as Hibernating Hopes?
The gathering visualizes an growing alienation of pure forces consistent with technological improvement. [We envisioned] an overgrown wishing properly that had been out of use for therefore lengthy that the water stuffed with duckweed, making a stable layer as an alternative of fluidity and clearness. Our hopes in hibernation.

Having dyed materials in our native peat lavatory for just a few years, we quickly realized that it feels there’s some fact to the murky water, as if it holds knowledge that we neglect. We felt unusually linked to it, and after a go to to an exhibition at Moesgaard Museum, in Aarhus, concerning the Danish Iron Age and begin of the Peat Period, we realized that the way in which the ancients handled the lavatory was with a way of hope and awe, as this manifestation of one thing greater. They didn’t look to the sky, they regarded within the water and sacrificed their most treasured belongings to it, with the assumption of getting one thing in return from nature. The museum is crammed to the brim with bracelets, swords, and different valuables which were retrieved from the bogs. That is the place our parallel to the wishing properly arose, as we realized society’s most prized possession right this moment is foreign money, and throwing cash in a wishing properly appears like a direct continuation of our predecessor’s rituals of sacrifice.