MY LITTLE ICELANDIC PONY

(sold)

SIGNE EMDAL

2018-2019
Icelandic wool, Swedish cotton warp
45 x 70 x 23 cm
touch tech
unique piece
on show at Design Miami/ Basel, 2022

..“A living skin is not just a surface. A living skin is the direct transition to a heart.

Before you get to touch your lover's skin, you travel through layers of invisible fur.

It may take a while before you get to touch the actual skin material. When you finally get there, you enter the merging phase. The more you touch, the more you will merge and your touch will be visible. You changed your lover's body memory forever. Let it be a gentle touch. Like approaching an animal or a plant or a tree. Even your car or your shoes would love a gentle touch.

Humble. Slow, with presence and respect “- Signe Emdal

/Text by Galerie Maria Wettergren

For ‘My Little Icelandic Pony’, Signe Emdal created a new fusion technique called TOUCH. The work was created by Emdal in Icelandic wool during a residency in North Iceland. The TOUCH technique is a delicate merge of Icelandic wool fibers and knots, transformed into subtle layers of fur-like shades of poetry, reflecting human body energy layers and body memory from physical interactions.

‘My Little Icelandic Pony’ is the first piece that Emdal made using this technique, and it explores “our layers of invisible fur ”, wherein our living skin is the direct transition to a human’s inner life - the heart.