My grandmother died more than 25 years ago. My memories of her are therefore foggy and distant. Still I feel a strong connection to her. I look a lot like her and this makes me think that our characters were alike as well. Although my relation to my grandmother is a biological one and thus indisputable, our connection is nevertheless imagined because it's in my head. But I like to see and invent myself through her figure. Making and remaking myself just as things are invented and reinvented in the world resulting in something that is still essentially the same. Or very similar to the original one. Similarity is something people hold on to. I do, too.
This work includes three pictures. My grandmother's portrait was screen printed on three identical hand-knitted canvases. The first one of them was left as is. The second one was taken up and re-knitted once and the third one twice. This makes the third picture a kind of self-portrait of me as I am the third generation when counted from my grandmother.
