Weaving the Tower
Weaving the Tower, 2010, Towerhouse (Textile Museum), Hawick
Audiovisual and wool installation in the Textile Museum –
Film, wood, mirrors, wool cones, speakers, projector, pebbles, pine tree leaves
The video footage is a composition of moving images that present a series of interventions in natural spaces using wool as the element for connecting history and present, culture and nature, and indoors (private) and outdoors (public).
Thanks to Richard Ashrowan and Mary Morrison for their support, thanks to Shona Sinclair for welcoming me at the Towerhouse and providing tons of coloured wool, and thanks to Bridie, Dove & Lily for making me feel at home during my residency in the Scottish Borders.
The installation consisted of one projector screening the video footage “Weaving the Towerhouse” into a semi-circular space in the ground floor of the Textile Museum. The projected audiovisual material pointed at a series of mirror that reflected the moving images and re-projected them onto different walls and surfaces. The space was weaved with a large number of wool cones which spread and tangled in the space. The threads interfered in the projections and casted shadows into the image. Natural elements such as wood, pebbles and tree branches were brought inside into the tangle of wool and visuals.
Rocio von Jungenfeld 