Hanne Keto
 
  Author's Intuition while felting Felt Works  
  Textile Design :   1719/2002
 
 
Image:Hanne Keto, 2002
 
 

The goal of this final project work was to create something what the student hasn't allowed or dared herself to do. The aim of the author is to allow herself complete freedom of control to do what ever she feels right to do, to surrender completely to the flow of intuition. The maker of this final project work has started the process through intuition and has allowed herself to be lead through it. Afterwards the process is examined. Information about intuition is gathered for the report. The definition of intuition is: to see internally, immediate understanding, to know, to understand without rational and logical thinking. The maker of this work examines the background factors that have inspired her intuition and how her ability to see internally has developed as time elapses. This final project work consists of three separate works of art created while being overcome by intuition. The material used is wool and the technique used to create these works is felting. These works weren’t designed for any particular space or any conscious message in mind. The inner and outer factors that are affecting the intuition are also discussed in this final project work. Finally the part of intuition in the process of felting is considered. During the process it was noted that the student was able to deny all outer stimuli thus allowing her to dwell deeper into her own world. The author describes her intuitive experience as follows: ”All the knowledge was in my hands. I acted instinctively. My hands acted and lived like they had a will of their own, feeling how the wool fibers shrunk and lived and how they were transformed through the will of my fingers.” The maker observed that conscious actions were the preparing of the work space and gathering of the materials and equipment needed. Subconscious action of intuition occurs after material and equipment are ready for use. The feel, scent and colours of the material guided the student to work. “The choice of the works’ colours and sizes are hard to justify because they just came out. The colours weren’t just colours, they were more like shades of feelings, messages, memories, flashes from the past and the dreams of future. The colours that did not match blended, changed and formed a new entity and a new world.”

 
  Keywords: intuition, felting, wool  
  Right of use: To be studied in the place where deposited. Can be freely copied in the place where deposited.  
  Number, file/product, number of pages:
Number 1719:1 Folder A4 report, 42 pages
 
  Number, what parts, where deposited:
1719:2 Work in the possession of the author 1719:3 Work in the possession of the author 1719:4 Work in the possession of the author
 
  Phone, e-mail, Home page:040 525 88 76 enne7@jippii.fi