Pot Verdorie

Pot Verdorie

pot verdorie ‘Pot verdorie’ is a Dutch minced oath, referring to ethical concerns on social and political discourses in the world, where the pot or vase represents the womb which is the place where new life begins. INSTALLATION...
Digest

Digest

digest An ongoing series of paper plates decorated like Delftware with images from newspaper reports, Tisna offers a witty and poignant critique of the daily diet of violent and banal imagery served up in the Western media. Through playful subversion Digest prompts us...
Costume Drama

Costume Drama

custome drama Large embroidered portraits of young male and female subjects,  combining patterning and decorating patch works, sewing together newspaper reports of refugees and police brutality with fabrics from clothes she wore as a child. Inspired by Japanese war...
Patchwork Politics

Patchwork Politics

Patchwork Politics Tisna is creating an ongoing series of patchworks, sewing together newspaper reports of the London riots with fabrics from clothes she wore as a child. Using this ancient craft technique, traditionally handed from mother to daughter, Tisna opens up...
On the Flipside

On the Flipside

on the flipside The classic Dutch tile format is given a surreal twist. A smiling girl paddles outside her flooded home. Children dangle from London landmarks, oblivious to danger. The narrative possibilities multiply in a tiled expanse where childhood dreams are...