Join in and add one ore more pieces/modules that will attach for a bigger work/installation in the shape of a river.

The work will organically grow and change with every piece attached as continuously process.

We’ll use recycled materials, pieces of textile and yarns which will be knotted, twisted, combined and attached on a harder base to create textured surfaces.

Working together for one project is another layer of the workshop, we will think about the metaphor of the river in each of other lives.

Children can join the process together with their parents, everyone can use own imagination and create freely.

The participants can as well create smaller pieces to take home as they would like to.

Mirela Marinescu is an artist born in Bucharest, Romania now living in Arnhem, NL. She graduated at the Academy of Art in Bucharest – design, textile and decorative art and followed a museology master program at The Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam.

She has worked several years in a museum as restaurator and conservator of a mediaeval textile collection.

“Living abroad, I am more aware and think about the similarities and differences of people, culture, traditions in both my country and the country of adoption. I find the boundaries are sometimes faded, people have similar ideals, qualities, people like to travel, to broaden knowledge, speak more languages, everything is more and more intertwined and connected.

At the moment, living very next to the Rhine River and knowing that it is connected with the Donau River from my country, Romania, I like to imagine the flow of the two waters, the idea that I could take a boat and travel between the countries. I see the River as a symbol or metaphor for connection, a link between hearts, minds, lives and experiences, as blood veins running along, passing through countries and their people.

As artist I use different media and materials to create my artworks, depending on the theme and idea. The idea behind my work is sometimes more important than the finished object, but even though my work may be conceptual I make use of traditional techniques like collages, weaving, graphic techniques to give form to my concept.”