Portfolio > You Never Know How You Look Through Other People’s Eyes ICA MECA 2018

The braided, handmade rope is created from materials collected at Humboldt Park Natural dye, phytoremediator plants, dirt, litter (cigarillos, Flaming Cheetos/Doritos, candy wrappers) zippers, and shoestrings.

This braided rug is an everyday object that is made from materials that I gathered near my home in Humboldt Park. The braid spirals out of a black void into a thick rope and becomes a type of map and marker to navigate my neighborhood space. I made the rope from the land to build a fabric and a tool of community, using stories and objects that are the woven fabric of Humboldt Park’s daily life and the “inescapable network of mutuality.” (M.L.King, Why We Can’t-Wait, 1964)