The Healing Blanket started as my graduation project from the Master program in Art and Public Space at KHiO, then developed through research connected to the Gjerdrum landslide for Gjerdrum Land Art Festival. A textile approximately fifteen by five meters, brought from Beirut, became a communal picnic surface where local participants shared food and stories. The picnic was not an event added to the artwork, but its central spatial and social form.

The textile remained on grass before being removed, leaving a temporary trace that registered time, weather and the interaction between fabric and living ground.

During the wider research, I learned how local knowledge shaped the rescue operation. A local tractor driver identified safe ground for fire trucks, which later became a helicopter landing area, yet he had not understood the importance of his contribution. This reinforced my interest in knowledge that remains informal or unrecognized in official accounts.