ABSTRACT
Namibian artist Lena Tsueb’s embroidered work Flying Ants (2016) inspired two Finnish artists, Heidi Pietarinen and Eija Timonen, to invite the Ju/’hoansi San community of beaders in Namibia, to collaborate in ‘Ice’, a project examining culture, craft and identity as part of a shared creative process. That process saw Pietarinen, Timonen and eight Ju/’hoansi San beaders apply their chosen tools: woven textiles, photos and bead embroidery. The aims of this project were to develop a method for multicultural artistic cooperation and to focus on the ways in which artists from different cultural contexts can work with a common theme.
