Mitt navn er Jennifer Jorfald, jeg er innehaver av verkstedet smashing der jeg bl.a. tilverker veggdekorasjoner og bord av tallerkenskår. Materialene jeg bruker er kasserte tallerkener som jeg klipper møysommelig med tang for å få det ønskede utrykk. Hvert produkt er unikt, og resultat av en nærmest ubegrenset skaperglede. 

Jeg lager mosaikker på bestilling etter ønskete motiv, fargeklanger og størrelser. Jeg kan tilpasse mine eksisterende mosaikker til ulike steder.

Mosaikkene kan brukes til mur-, betong- og gipsvegg eller lignende, limt på en tynn plate kan de også monteres på trevegg. 

Jennifer Jorfald

The materials I use are old crockery, mostly plates. These objects are carefully cut with special pliers and pieced together, (like a jigsaw puzzle).

I source my materials from second hand shops and jumble sales and often buy objects no-one else wants or has use for. The fact that these objects have been used, often for generations, gives them a patina that I value. In a world where so much ends up on the rubbish tip it feels good to “rescue” these objects and give them new life. I am an artist craftsman using these found materials with irony and humour to tell stories which reflect my own identity which is divided between several countries and cultures. 

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A blessing in disguise

Life is full of coincidences. Whilst working on my “slipper” project I had a curious experience. I was queuing to pay in a shop in Oslo and a heroin addict, standing in front of me, wanted to by some slippers. Not having 50 Kroner to pay for them she turned to me and asked me if I could buy them for her. What did she want the slippers for? Maybe she too associated slippers with cosiness, warmth and comfort, something there was little of outside the shop as it was winter.​

The suitcase of a Norwegian spy​

It takes all sort's to make a world

Arne Treholt worked in the Norwegian Foreign Office and in 1984 He was arrested and given a 20 year jail sentence for spying for Russia and Iraq. A search of his apartment in 1983 apparently revealed a suitcase full of money, but this was strongly contested by Treholt´s lawyer both at the time and later. I have had fun imagining what that suitcase may have contained, many of the objects now being outdated.
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I like to explore different characteristics in the form of shirts, as an author describes his characters in a book. They show particular fragments of Norwegian culture and everyday life, for example hunting, fishing, national costumes, traditions, holidays and religion.​

Lost in Norway

I find suitcases fascinating as objects which can contain pretty much anything. Suitcases travel with their owner and their contents tell you a lot about the him or her. Suitcases are mainly associated with travel, but can also be a symbol of escape (refugees) and terror attacks or always being on the move. For some a suitcase is the nearest they will come to a “home” and as an object can spark feelings of nostalgia and dreams.​

I find suitcases fascinating as objects which can contain pretty much anything. Suitcases travel with their owner and their contents tell you a lot about the him or her. Suitcases are mainly associated with travel, but can also be a symbol of escape (refugees) and terror attacks or always being on the move. For some a suitcase is the nearest they will come to a “home” and as an object can spark feelings of nostalgia and dreams.​

Arne Treholt worked in the Norwegian Foreign Office and in 1984 He was arrested and given a 20 year jail sentence for spying for Russia and Iraq. A search of his apartment in 1983 apparently revealed a suitcase full of money, but this was strongly contested by Treholt´s lawyer both at the time and later.​

I have had fun imagining what that suitcase may have contained, many of the objects now being outdated.​