𝄆 martina daniel telgmaa (b. 1996, Tartu), also known as mdt, is an Estonian artist practising in London. She works in fibre and textile, painting, writing, sound, and performance. Inspired and intrigued by craft practices like knitting, crocheting, and weaving, mdt explores the care and energy it takes to remember, learn, have fun, breathe, and be alive.

Often explorative in nature, the work exists to figure something out, to make sense of it, to talk about it. The work is as much the process as the outcome; obsessed with the material, the action, the breathing in between; the space between doing an action and being a part of one.

The performance work is cyclical, durational, scored with exercises that use repeating processes, where temporality is led by or significant to the meanings and materials - not only allowing things to take time but asking them to. Every breath, every second, every movement looking for a way to stitch itself into the pattern.

The artist thinks about the people that have come before; those that have devised these methods in making, and the generations of those that have taught them to others. The work is reaching to learn from the past and build for the future while existing now.

Making to make what I like, what I want, what I need; making to surround myself with, to think and not think; to make myself.

Loop, again, repeat. 𝄇