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My practice uses wet felting to translate the Icelandic landscape into tactile, sculptural surfaces, including felted vessels that hold form in three dimensions. I layer raw wool with silk fibres and fragments of paper, then work the layers by hand with water and soap until the fibres bond together. The wool gives structure and density, echoing moss-covered lava fields; silk catches light like glacial ice or arctic water; paper cracks and frays as the wool shrinks around it, mirroring erosion in basalt and ash. Through repeated rolling and rubbing, the layers compress into a single surface- the piece takes its final form the way the landscape itself is shaped: through sustained pressure and time rather than
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