NORDIC LANDSCAPES · Barcelona · 2024 | Katla Casa Noórdica

A Series of Volcanic and Urban Cartographies in Thread

Hand embroidery on textile.
35 × 35 cm each.

This series explores five northern territories — three volcanoes and two cities — translated into thread as minimal cartographic gestures.

The works trace landscapes shaped by eruption and ice, by silence and structure.
Contours become rhythm.
Grids become tension.
Thread becomes topography.

The Volcanic Pieces

Öræfajökull
A glacial volcano where fire lives beneath ice. The embroidery follows its layered contours — sedimented time, frozen movement, pressure held in suspension.

Eyjafjallajökull
A name that once circled the globe in ash. Here, its topography is reduced to concentric lines — an aerial memory of eruption, expansion, and atmospheric reach.

Katla
Hidden beneath ice, restless beneath stillness. The stitched lines suggest subterranean force — a landscape defined as much by what is unseen as by what is mapped.

The Urban Cartographies

Copenhagen
A city drawn in measured lines. The grid bends around water, softens at the edges, and negotiates between order and fluidity. Structure meets coastline.

Oslo
Urban fabric unfolding toward the fjord. The embroidery captures the tension between geometry and terrain — a city that adapts to landscape rather than imposing upon it.

Across the series, black thread on raw textile becomes a language of restraint.

These works are not literal maps.
They are emotional reductions — northern light distilled into contour and stitch.

Fire and ice.
City and silence.
Landscape rendered in thread.