Shade of Walking







2024
Textiel Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands ⇀ Gallerie NIKA, Prague, Czech Republic

           
The series works stem from my residency project at the Textiel Lab of TextielMuseum in the Netherlands in 2024. Through an experiment made possible by the technical support of TextielLab, I developed a twisted thread technique that allows each tufting section to randomly display two halves of different colors, resembling the irregular strokes and white spaces left by a dry brush or pencil on paper. When multiple tufting lines are arranged together, they evoke the hatching lines of a sketch or even the brush strokes (皴法) of East Asian ink painting traditions. 










After depicting my observations in the local area, I continued to extend the concept of sketching with the rug itself as a carrier like paper, and using the “spiral coil binding” method, the rugs can even be stacked, unfolded, or opened like a sketchbook in various postures.