The artists has given each other questions to answer:
What does grit mean to you?
How you describe working independently contra working together with somebody?
What does the materials you work with mean to you?

We are both constantly trying to figure out what craft is to us. Is it learning age-old skills and perfecting it until you have it engraved in your muscle memory? Or the ability to understand and accept the possibilities and limitations of a specific material? Is it experimentation? Or perhaps a combination of all the above?

I often find and work with new materials to bring weaving beyond traditional craft. I recently bought a Karelian table linen from a flee market in the Finnish countryside, handwoven, with Karelian red picking patterns along the cloth, size 200x90cm for 4€ - I thought: "holy shi... Is this really what handwoven pieces are worth to most poeple?"

Online exhibition spaces are yet an emerging phenomenon currently gaining some additional traction as a result of global pandemic lock-down. GRIT is one such exercise, a digital presentation of new work by collaborating artists Kristina Daukintyte Aas and Karina Nøkleby Presttun, based in Norway; and Outi Martikainen, of Finland. All three artists explore the medium of textiles, in related but differing manners, and by the use of multiple tools and approaches.