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Mia’s practice centers around illustration and textile arts, particularly knitting, crocheting, and sewing, while also expanding into other creative disciplines through phases of experimentation and exploration. Rather than limiting herself to a single medium, she moves between different forms of making, including jewelry, clay work, and other craft-based practices, allowing curiosity and materiality to guide her process.
Across these mediums, her work is guided by an attraction to visual joy. Color, lighting, texture, and setting play an important role in her inspiration and creative process within the illustrative world, often shaped by the kinds of images that evoke a sense of comfort, cozyness, or familiarity. Her illustrations are primarily character-focused, often centering female figures inspired by nostalgia, and emotional connection, while her textile work is more closely connected to fashion, wearability, and self-expression through handmade garments.
Regardless of the medium, Mia is interested in creating work that “feels good”. In a world that can often feel overwhelming, she sees art as a way to create comfort and offer a temporary escape from everyday life.
This has lead her to create a knitted and crocheted underwaterworld, that viewers could step into, for her design bachelor graduation project in 2024. Following her passion to work with children and to make art more accessible, she has continued with a bachelor in the teachers department. Her second graduation project attempts to take off some of the workload, that teachers are carrying, whilst improving the overall quality of art classes in elementary schools.