TRANSPARENT CURTAINS SOFTEN THE LIGHT

Sansusī Well-Being Art Residency

Latvia, 2024

Developed during the Well-Being residency through workshops and everyday encounters with residents of the Aknīste Social Care Centre and Psychoneurological Hospital, TRANSPARENT CURTAINS SOFTEN THE LIGHT grew from shared time, gestures, and conversations. Drawings created by participants became the starting point for an artistic dialogue and were translated into embroidery. Through installation, performance, and the later artist’s book FRINGES, the project carried these relationships forward in material, bodily, and narrative forms.

Works

Transparent Curtains Soften the Light

A series of embroidered works developed from participants’ drawings.

Birds or Fishes

Embroidered work based on Aleksander's drawing.

Agnese

Embroidered work based on Agnese's drawing.

Fringes

An artist’s book developed from conversations and relationships formed during the residency and completed in 2025. Combining hand embroidery directly on participants’ original drawings with poetic writing, it carries these encounters into material and narrative form.

Participatory

The Season We Share

A collective dance improvisation performance developed with participants of the Sansusī Well-Being Programme, giving bodily form to shared attention, listening and time.

Credits

Collective direction: artists of the Sansusī Well-Being Programme

Performance: programme artists and participants

Specifications

Series of embroidered works; hand embroidery on cooking paper, 37 x 87cm

Embroidered work; hand embroidery on agrotextile, 28 x 43cm

Embroidered work; hand embroidery on kraft paper, 62 x 220cm

Artist’s book; hand embroidery on participants’ original drawings, digital printing, handcrafted typeface, 9 pages, presented in a transparent display folder with clear A4 sleeves, completed in 2025

Permissions

All works and photographs from this project are presented with the approval of the participants and their caregivers.