After spending a week researching Ethnographic Museum in Krakow archive I went for a residency in University of Folk Art and Craft, located in Wola Sekowa – remote village South East of Poland.
During my residency time there were ceramic and ‘glass fusing’ workshops, which I took part in and other than that I was particularly focusing on researching Eastern European embroidery techniques and testing them for a new textile work that I have been developing.
While working with the embroidery I was not only thinking how it could be potentially queered but also about communal and contemplative qualities of this technique.
I estimated that the work would take me many months to be completed and I was thinking how is it counter-productive in a way. So if you do something very slow, against the currents of constant acceleration, it becomes in itself a mode of resistance.
