When beginning a creative process, I tend to be quite sensitive to emotions that I either find within myself, towards a project or directed at what is currently going on in the world. It is often something that is fragile and transient and that needs to be carefully captured, and not misunderstood, before it fades away. In the process I aim to create a permanent form that constitutes a piece of evidence about these past emotions and to aesthetically communicate it to an audience. I feel that I have a record of sentiments that I have yet to figure out how to express.

For this project I was able to recall a feeling that arose the first time I read the novel “Norwegian Wood,” by Haruki Murakami. What touched me when I read the story were subjects of fragility, femininity, mystery and a deep sense of sorrow. My first intuition was to work with black and see-through materials to emphasize these themes but as the progress proceeded, I was drawn to wool and brighter materials. I decided on using the contrast between heavier and lighter fabrics to evoke these emotions, and I translated the story using cotton, wools, see-through materials and a vintage curtain.

Photographer: Ronja Þuríður Kristleifsdóttir

Hair and make-up: Ísold Hreins

Model: Ísold Steingrímsdóttir