Look Up in the Sky was my first Yarn work. It began with a simple art school assignment to make a work for a public space. My intention was modest: I wanted to create a quiet space where passers-by could engage in self-reflection.
But as I moved my body through the site, stretching the Yarn across space and responding to its shape, something that I had kept frozen for years began to thaw. The gesture felt like the Ikebana I had practised since childhood. It was the first moment I recognised that I was carrying something massive inside me that ordinary language could not reach.
In these early works I drew long, straight red lines, tethering stones to fences and lamp posts, and finished every knot with meticulous care, as if the neatness of the Yarn could hold everything together.
