"The project emerged from an interest in printed media in a digital era. Under the working title tactility in printed matter, I immersed myself in the Norwegian priniting industry. I did extensive studies to acquire this soon extinct craftsmanship through what remains of original environments with expertise in letterpress printing. After being granted a journeyman certificate, I reached a turning point. The industrial history is not mine to appropriate. I acknowledged that my place in history, as a female self taught printer from the other side of the digital revolution, was in fact another. Artistic research eventually evolved into finding and defining rooms of my own, physically, intellectually and historically. Reflections surfacing through Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One ́s Own. It became clear how crucial the material conditions for artistic practice are. I needed a room of my own to think, and an actual printing press of my own."

- Ane Thon Knutsen