What is a teapot when you no longer know what a teapot is? How does a person suffering from dementia experience his or her surroundings? In Jetske Visser’s film Forgotten Memory the viewer is submerged in the world of dementia. By doing research and examining literature on the subject, and by spending time with elderly people suffering from the condition, Visser has created an image of their hazy, fragile and precarious existence. As a metaphor for the condition she has transformed a series of everyday objects and taken pictures of people with dementia. The film demonstrates that things are not always what you would expect.

Because of the substantial water consumption, the chemical dyes and worldwide transport, the textile industry is a serious pollutant. Jetske Visser has studied new production methods using locally sourced materials. Excess and waste materials from the local industry around the Biesbosch National Park, combined with natural resources, have formed the starting point for the yarns, dyes and dyeing techniques she has developed. Raw Materials, Biesbosch Collection is an industrially produced, locally sourced collection of fabrics.