Done with a partner, Lori Barger, we guerrilla weaved around the Blue Line subway station in Chicago. Our idea was to show the scarcity of a resource, paper, that is taken for granted.
Okaaaay, this really wasn’t guerilla weaving since I had to ask the stall guy for permission (he Was standing right in front of me, there was no way to I could be graffiti-style ‘sneaky”)
I then placed a ball of “yarn” into a jewelry box that was topped with a Tiffany blue satin ribbon to exemplify its preciousness.
While I was warm & toasty inside the subway station weaving, Lori was a true warrior outside by placing a weaving she had done at home with the same type of “yarn” inside a free newspaper box, the Red Eye. In this piece, our idea was to have the weaving confront the viewer as soon as he or she opened the box. Inside, we also placed a ball of “the yarn” in a jewelry box on top of the newspapers to exemplify the preciousness of our resources.
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