‘Tethering our thoughts’ is a site responsive installation made with red string. Setting it up was like drawing in space or stitching the room! It took 6 hours.
It’s participatory; the viewer is invited to become an active participant by adding fruit nets to the structure and by writing their thoughts about waste on a label and tying that to the installation too. With each interaction the space is changed.
Fruit nets are curious objects as they retain a sculptural form even when they’re empty – a ghost-like trace of their former shape, a memory. They become oddly alluring when hung, but in fact are a big part of the plastic problem. They cannot be recycled. They’re ubiquitous and insidious.
It was installed at SVA in Stroud from 6th -10th Feb. 2019 as part of Incendiary, a multi-site exhibition responding to the firing of industrial-incinerators & combustion fallout on human & more than human ecosystems. The other exhibitions were at Lansdown Gallery, as well as the University of Gloucestershire’s Hardwick
