"And as Habit weakens every impression, what a person recalls to us most vividly is precisely what we had forgotten. That is why the better part of our memory exists outside ourselves, in a blatter of rain, in the smell of an unaired room or of the first crackling brushwood fire in a cold grate." (Proust.)
This book is dedicated to my great-grandmother, seamstress Olga Vilhelmīne Ķirule. Although, I don't remember her, I have attempted to reconstruct her personality and milieu using the story, photographs and letters as intermediaries. According to Proust's method, I compounded collected scattered memories in my mind, fictional characters and others’ people memories of her – as a seamstress creates costume out of pieces from dress patterns. In the sewing the process, as well as in graphic techniques, time is coexistent and present. Lithography, silkscreen and digital print works are made on the basis of 60-90s graphic aesthetics – at the times when Olga lived.
In this book there are elements of “leporello”, – this enables us to see a succession of events unfolding before our eyes. Book components consists of lithographs, 3D elements, hand-written poems, cut out ornaments, a sewing pattern and a letter. Image order emulates to the life cycle of Olga, beginning with the house where she lived. The letters of her name letters are present on every page. The book consists of "Munken Print White" paper, 150 g/m2; tissue silk paper, 22 g/m2 and newspaper, ~40 g/m2. Also inside the book there is a text copybook.
