Rope
Rope
First and Foremost―Being in Touch with the Society
object; residency in HIAP, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Object. It was inspired by the experience of being an outsider and the need to connect with the locals. The rope was created as a means of escape and salvation from an oppressive situation. Such was the artist’s own predicament, alienated in her studio on the fifth floor of a large building, in a strange town, in the middle of Scandinavian winter. The rope, woven from the second-hand clothes of Finns, became the means of trying to communicate with the Finnish society using objects produced by them. The line, thrown out of the artist’s window and reaching right down to the ground, it was both an invitation to climb up and visit the artist in her studio, and an escape route.