Tipping Point

Tipping Points explores the accelerating impact of climate change through the metaphor of receding glaciers, using textiles, sound, and material processes to reflect on environmental fragility and transformation. At the heart of this work is a reimagining of structure and support, where traditionally, pins hold fabric layers together, here it is the ice that holds the pins, forming a fragile, mesh-like configuration that slowly disintegrates.

This inversion speaks to the instability of our natural systems. Just as glaciers carry and deposit rock debris over time, layers of ice and embedded pins accumulate in this work, evoking the complexity of a double cloth—woven in two distinct layers that interlace through a shifting warp and weft structure. This textile reference serves as both a visual and conceptual framework for understanding the complex, interwoven nature of ecological change.

Accompanying the installation is a soundscape composed of field recordings from wind and storms in Norway, interwoven with the subtle, intimate sounds of pins and ice. These sonic elements are layered in a manner akin to textile construction—threaded, overlapped, and merged—to create an immersive auditory environment that evokes the sensory experience of climate disruption.

By drawing connections between cloth, ice, and sound, Tipping Points considers the delicate thresholds we now inhabit—where structural bonds weaken, where memory is held in material, and where the slow unravelling of our climate is both felt and heard.