`Resilient dust from the textile industry´, Hand embroidery on textile paper made of industrial textile dust, 1150 x 24cm, 2026

Photo: Tor Simen Ulstein / Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art

The main element in this project is the `textile dust´ that I have slowly collected from a textile industry over three years. I managed to create a paper like

surface with this dust, which was once a million pieces of invisible textile fibers.

The hand embroidery with golden and silver threads (Zari) takes form of a self-written poetic text that goes as following:

I am dust from the textile industry.

I am found in the air, all the time inside the industry.

I am witness to the industrial labor life.

A life inside high ceilings and walls with no windows.

Gigantic machines making repetitive sounds,

Followed by repetitive body movements of the production workers.

I am an unwanted residue from the industrial textiles.

Very much like the voices of production workers.