Cooperation

When Petra lived in Vietnam she got impressed by the advanced handicrafts of the different Hmong tribes in the North.  But the younger generation is not wearing the handmade embroidered dresses anymore, instead they wear printed light polyester fabric from China.  More time they spent on social media than in the social environment where the former generation embroider or weave, and exchange the latest news by mouth.

In the Netherlands the same has happened. Our grandmothers crocheted gloves with very fine yarn and worn them to go to church, our mothers stopped doing this and the yarn became thicker. Time to create fine works we put nowadays more in watching vlogs and movies of other people creating.

Times are changing, and we loose the very fine skills our grandmothers knew by heart within a few generations. Petra’s idea is to draw extra attention to the fine work by highlighting them in her sculptures.

The series Skilled Hands is a tribute to the experienced hands of yesteryear.

Size 62 x 30 x 21 cm

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