Horizons

This ongoing series titled Horizons features hand-knotted wall hangings, created using the latch hook technique. Every single knot is placed by hand - a slow, meditative process that invites patience, focus, and presence. The result: textile works that shift between abstraction and realism, grounded in personal experience.

Each piece begins with a photograph, taken in a moment of stillness - often small glimpses of joy, peace, or clarity. Horizons appear not only as a quiet symbol of hope: a transitional line between the now and the what lies ahead. I reduce and adjust the colours of these images, creating a template that is then translated, knot by knot, into textile form.

The works in this series are approximately 84 x 65 cm in size. Creating them is part of my way of responding to a fast paced, oftentimes overwhelming world and my ongoing fight with depression - a form of gentle escapism, but also an act of reclaiming space for softness and light.

These pieces are closely connected to my wider practice at the intersection of fashion and textile art. As with all my work, the Horizons hangings are made in Berlin - slowly, intentionally and entirely by hand.

Inspired by a moment of quiet at Loch Lomond, this piece captures a soft rush of light, water, and memory. The original photograph was taken in Scotland during a rare feeling of weightlessness - something between joy and groundedness. The colours were intensified and distorted in the template process, pushing the horizon into a palatte that feels more like a dream remembered than a place revisited.

Softly surreal in tone, the image holds onto the memory of light and longing. It reflects the quiet insistence that there must be places - real or imagined - where stillness and beauty can briefly and peacefully unfold.

This hand-knotted work is based on a photograph taken during a flight over the North Sea. From the window seat (21F), layers of dense, towering clouds stretched out below - too beautiful to be threatening, too vast to read. Above them, a clear sky opened in bright sunlight. Translated into texture and colour, the work reflects a fleeting moment of uncertainty and quiet fascination at 10,000 metres.

Based on a photograph taken at a 2024 Blink - 182 concert in Berlin, this piece captures an empowering moment of light, sound, and shared memories. A single hand is raised toward the stage. In the corner, someone’s phone glows at it tries to hold onto what will soon be over. The original image was taken in the middle of a line sung half in earnest, half in laughter “Life is too short to last long”.

Transformed into texture, the scene becomes a kind of memory-in-motion - vibrant, echoing, and full of contradictions. It’s about friendship, the strange joy of shouting out shared memories in unison and the knowledge that some nights only come around once.