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7 Autumn 2020 After the Storm …warning… crackle…
very strong northwesterly winds. Sam lives on an island where it’s often stormy. In a dream she hears on the radio about a plane disappearing. At the same time a rope finds its way into her bedroom, a rope that seems to want her to follow it, through the bedroom door and out into the snowy forest. The rope guides Sam across fallen trees and ravines to a dream-aeroplane waiting to take her away from the island. In this debut by artist Ida-Lovisa Rudolfsson the textile collage is used to create a literal example of ‘following the thread’. Playfully, she lets the rope wind its way across a landscape of embroidered birch trees, yellow skies and frozen, shimmering green lakes, transforming it into a swing, a line or a lasso. After the Storm combines an international picture book tradition with contemporary textile art in an aesthetically original dreamstory about play and longing Malin Nauwerck’s choice Ida-Lovisa Rudolfsson Rudolfsson is a textile artist, now publishing her first book. Picturebook, 3–6 years, 40 p. Ida-Lovisa Rudolfsson Publisher Mirando bok Rights Koja Agency Carin Bacho carin.bacho@kojaagency.com Photo: Ola Kjelbye