6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
Year: 2018
Think six hours before you judge and it all turned up side down.
(tweet, 2019)
Brought up on the bottom of the sea in a manmade and totally controlled polder, Amsing never took much notice to the 'wild' tidal forces. This changed when Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp -together Knockvologan Studies- invited her to cooperate on a weaving project: to weave the landscape of the Isle of Mull, Scotland. Their neighboring weaving mill of Isle of Mull Weavers looks out over the Atlantic Ocean. Instead of the land she started weaving the sea.
In 6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds the sea level lowers from high to low tide and in another 6+ hours it rises from low to high tide. The difference, the tidal range, is fluctuating during a month. Apart from the moon-earth-sun constellation the height of the fluctuation depends most of all on local geographical settings.
Traveling to several coastlines Amsing shows the biggest local tidal range with a gauge rod. You are looking at the largest local change in sea level within six hours! It is the mass of water that amazes her. The space in between the extremes.
She thereafter weaves a fabric of exactly the size of the largest tidal range. Weaving the mass in between the tides. Different on every piece of coast, but all created in 6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds .
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
JERSEY
Year: 2019-2020
CUTTING OFF PARTY NR 1
The last few centimeters of Jersey were woven on a windy Sunday afternoon in October. I invited friends and family to join me cutting off the fabric from the loom. 12 meters of 'Jesey' was taken off the loom and brought outside to lift it along the facade. While people passed by on bikes and walked their dog, we stood eye to eye with the 12 meter tidal range of Jersey.
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
Year: 2018
At the coastline of Ardalanish, on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, the largest tidal range is 4,27 meter.
The woven tidal range of Ardalanish is presented during Into the Great Wide Open 2018 on Vlieland.
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
Year: 2018
At the coastline of Accra, Ghana in West Africa, the largest tidal range is 1,82 meter.
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
Year: 2018
At the coastline of Vlieland, the Netherlands, the largest tidal range is 2,62 meter.
interview door Bertien Minco en Erik Wong tijdens Warm Nest
november 2018
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
LÀN-MARA
Year: 2018
Làn-mara is the name of a blanket Amsing designed and produced together with Knockvologan Studies and Isle of Mull Weavers.
The deep brown and dark grey wool from the local Hebridean sheep is woven into seascape blankets in the weaving mill of Ardalanish.
Làn-mara is Gaellic and can be translated as tidal. The length of the blanket is alike one of the tidal ranges on the days it was woven at Ardalanish on 26 and 27 of March 2018.
220 euro
The Làn-mara blankets were launched at Into the Great Wide Open 2018 on Vlieland.
