Just Keep Going

Difference

Year
2018
Medium
Hemp yarn, participants' contributions
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Context
'The Other Project X', The Other Art Fair
Venue
The Facility, Melbourne
Red yarn knotted into a dense hanging web with small tags
Just Keep Going_Difference, 2018, detail

For Just Keep Going_Difference, part of The Other Project X at The Other Art Fair, I installed the Yarn at the entrance and in a booth, with a written invitation for visitors. I asked them to reflect on their lives, their comforts, their communities and the trees, birds and insects around them, and to add their own uniqueness by tangling, knotting or hand-knitting a strand of Yarn into the universe of others.

As I watched the many individual strands intertwine, my body moved towards an ease I had not realised I was looking for. The effort to justify my presence through a single, perfect line began to dissolve. The work no longer rested on my shoulders alone; my own Yarn became simply one among many.