~ According to the Age UK’s survey (2012-2014) 650,000 to 800,000 people aged 65 years and over in the United Kingdom say they are always or often lonely. The most common causes of loneliness among older people are poor health, reduced mobility, and cognitive or sensory impairment. Another factor that contributes towards an exclusion from social relationships is the experience of living alone. Studies have shown that 9% of all elderly people in the UK feel trapped in their own home; 12% claim they feel cut off from society.

This project derives from regular visits with an elderly lady, who struggles with most of the aforementioned issues. Through an intensive investigation of tactile materials and analogue processes, typographic installations were created, to unobtrusively link the emotional with tangible. For the first piece, almost a hundred years old crocheted doilies have been conserved in the form of solid clay tiles. Details of these fragile pieces eventually served as a grid for customly designed letters. The knitted installation was inspired by Victorian Copperplate. Due to the meditative traits and handmade quality, ceramics, calligraphy and knitting represent a deceleration of an oversaturated world, where opinions of elderly people get lost and remain unheard.