Hanna Norrna works with weaving as an alchemical formula and ritual gesture - an intertwining of silent knowledge and spirituality, mythology and materiality. Her practice touches how craft, passion, vulnerability, body and sanctity are connected and claims its space.
At the core of Norrna’s practice is the silkworm bombyx mori. An originally wild species, domesticated for thousands of years for human needs and productions. In the summers, she breeds silkworms in her home and follow the caterpillars' growing transformation into butterflies. She processes their cocoons into thread and dye them with symbolic plants.
Norrna’s approach to weaving is inspired by female mystics who explored relations between body and spirit through spiritual seanses and writing. Through the processes of silk breeding and weaving, she formulates and concretizes questions of metamorphosis, cyclicity, domestication and care.