Ketli Tiitsar
In my work, I explore what I remember about the environments and situations connected with my past and present moments, and how these memories are intertwined with materials. Working mostly with personal memories, I contemplate how much of them are not individual, but clearly local and generational. My use of wood originated from a desire to reapply the everyday skills and techniques I learned as a child in a house heated by a wood-fired stove. It was daily my responsibility to prepare the winter’s heating material in the house for the kiln: to take it indoors and strip birch bark for kindling. In the studio, I’ve attempted to replicate a similar routine by reconstructing wood, well known materials into jewellery. I am very much a process person, which also stems from my love of working on one topic for a long time.
