Fabric of Time (on an Immigrant's Body)

University of California, San Diego, 2020
Personal clothing, hemp rope, and tree branches
5' x 14' x 6'

Here hangs a display of personal clothes which are being held by two threads, stitched neatly through the sides in a parallel manner. The presentation and outdoor context alludes to clothes lines, a method of drying clothes that fell out of favor in the US after the invention of the automatic dryer. There is a lack of priority for environmental sustainability in America, where clothes lines are actually banned in quite a few states.

The clothes, cut and shaped into 12" x 12" squares, were loosely strung together, ordered by color, and draped across a distance of 14 feet outdoors for two weeks. Through the natural course of time and wear, the polyester threads snapped - leaving the clothes hanging on the floor.

Eventually, there will be an irreversible breaking point regarding climate change unless we collectively change attitudes and behaviors.