It was this little fish that led me to the work of Damask weaver, Dora Jung. Geometric forms and vivid colours characterize her work, which spans over five decades. Jung’s father bought her a loom when she was a child and a lifelong love of weaving was born. Her more asymmetrical designs and abstract patterns are beautiful; Abstract Blue is a woven painting. “Jung was a person of her time: her pictures were built strongly on a strongly visual ideology,” notes scholar, Päivi Fernström. “This was connected to a mythical power coming from the material and the work of the hands. Jung did not want to give any artistic responsibility to the loom.”