This piece is both a self-portrait and an invitation to look within. Through weaving, the story becomes both body and process - a place where threads carry memory, wounds, and healing in the same form. The weave holds a duality: it is created with structure and patience, yet it always carries visible threads, raw edges, and unfinished shapes. In this way, it testifies that wholeness is not born from perfection, but from daring to hold what is fragile.

Weaving has become a way to create safe haven myself. I weave without armor. In this way, emotional memory becomes embodied - a material presence that cannot be denied or erased. The weave also speaks back to me: what I cannot emotionally remember, it reveals.

Here, happiness is understood as the ability to hold oneself - to reclaim the body as a home from within. Instead of seeking answers from outside, the weave becomes a mirror of inner care. It reminds me that I can carry both the child and the grown woman inside me.

The piece is woven in HV-technique, referring to the weaving methods developed at Handarbetets Vänner in Stockholm. HV-technique combines traditional and experimental approaches, taught at the Handarbetets Vänner school where I studied. The work is also executed in plain weave (tuskaft).

The piece was created during the Ós Residency at the Icelandic Textile Center in July 2023. It was later included in the group exhibition Soft Connections at the center, which invited participation from the local community in Blönduós, Iceland. The work was also published in the Ós Residency catalogue.