{"id":4166,"date":"2019-05-20T00:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:24:58","slug":"felt-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/en\/felt-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Felt sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Or who has invented my life?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">For more than twenty years, creations were made mostly with wool. All kinds of things really:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"fr-FR\"> toys , scar<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">ves ,dresses, and handbags but also wall hangings ,sculptures and fantastic costumes. If the medium is the message, as the Canadian Marshall McLuhan stated, then what is the revelation of this material?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Are we artists not all driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide ?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Inspirations came and come from so many<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"fr-FR\"> direction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> \u2014 some from walks in the forest ,some from books or exhibits. Then there are ideas like the seven deadly sins or dreams like the garden of delights. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4121\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Marjolein-south-dakota-art-museum00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4121\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Marjolein-south-dakota-art-museum00-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"South Dakota Art Museum 6\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Marjolein-south-dakota-art-museum00-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Marjolein-south-dakota-art-museum00-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Marjolein-south-dakota-art-museum00-600x1067.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Marjolein-south-dakota-art-museum00-1320x2347.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Marjolein-south-dakota-art-museum00.jpg 1916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Dakota Art Museum 6<\/p><\/div>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But why this wool?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Why the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> loving<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> of the felt? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Why love felt making ?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The wool is light and feral; it comes in so many colours and characters and qualities that surprise but also give tranquility because it feels so strangely common. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It is chaotic and wild and untamed ,still so close to the animal, who grows it generously several times a year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Then the craft of felting ,the entangling of the fibers to a sturdy ,solid sculptable material . <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Felted , that fluffy soft hair is caught in a material which looks like something close to animal hides, maybe even our own skin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As wool it is free and flowing but as felt, it is imprisoned by its own hair.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As substance it gives us protection ,warmth ,insulation but its density can also invite sensations of breathlessness maybe even suffocation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The feel of wool is inviting to touch \u2014 we felters can<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">t resist the allure of its possibilities .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The laying out of the carefully combed or carded fibers. Designs with intricate patterns and forms . Fascinating color combinations, placing the wool filaments in all kind of directions sometimes mixed with silks or other fibers .This painting, this shingling hair by hair, done with presence and attention is calming for the mind. The result is enchanting .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Everything changes when we start to felt \u2014 adding the soapy water ,the rubbing and rolling ,the endless massaging ( Ever wondered what is behind that need of caressing our material for hours ,maybe every day?). Gently to start with ,to give the wool time to come together and then working with more force,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> entangle<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">s it forever in a new form .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The final hardening and shaping is intense and sometimes almost violent ,especially when the final work is voluminous and heavy in weight.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The intense physical labour can be very gratifying when making very large pieces \u2014 almost a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201cp<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">eak<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">experience . It can take months to prepare and it can be physically painful in the body, but getting there, is very satisfying .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The aliveness of this medium makes it feel close to our skin. The fact that we make it almost solely with our hands with no tools or screens , the experience of shaping the wool only with touch into a completely unique creation is outstanding .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Sometimes it feels as if the making seems to be more important then what is made. Usually the final result leaves a feeling of disappointment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">But never the less, the next idea is already popping up in the mind and creating excitement for the next project.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And the message?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What is the message of all those soft sculptural pieces ?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">All those creations which look like mysterious hides or creatures from the sea or maybe enchanted forests. Some remind us of body parts ,strange organisms that look like animals but at the same time like plants or mushrooms or maybe corals .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Do they express sensations which otherwise would stay unnoticed but want to be seen and \u201cfelt\u201d?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-ladies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-ladies-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Felted sculpture by Marjolein Dallinga ,bloomfelt.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-ladies-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-ladies-600x422.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/3-ladies.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In fact is not all art about existential questions?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> Who are we? What is life?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Why death? What is the intent of sexuality?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Why there is illness ? Why are we <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"fr-FR\"> alienation <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">from our body?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Questions we have no conclusive answers for.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Maybe Art is an attempt to handle all those questions , like science and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"it-IT\"> religion<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> try in their own particular ways.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Most of the felted art pieces are expressions of the struggle with the body \u2014they are about death and sex, sometimes quite literarily express sensations or emotions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Does this art<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> ,<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">do these felted pieces <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">be<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">come a way to live ,a way to survive ? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Still every day ,when waking up the first thing really calling is the wool ,the studio and the next creation to felt<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #454545;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The wool ,light and malleable but modest and so versatile. Its forgiving nature is inviting ,relatively inexpensive easily open to extensive experimentation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The closeness of felt ,almost a second skin, a friendship without a friend.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Marjolein Dallinga<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2753 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tete-de-violon-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"inspiration for bloomfelt\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tete-de-violon-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tete-de-violon-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tete-de-violon.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomfelt.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">bloomfelt.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bl00mfelt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Instagram: bl00mfelt <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bloomfelt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Facebook: bloomfelt <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.fr\/bloomfelt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Pinterest: Marjolein Dallinga <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or who has invented my life? For more than twenty years, creations were made mostly with wool. All kinds of things really: toys , scarves ,dresses, and handbags but also wall hangings ,sculptures and fantastic costumes. 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