Liz Hope

Bundles (from Borneo)

I’ve decided against the first proposal.  Way too linear and unrepresentative of me as a person.  My journey is much more convoluted and much of my working life is about bringing people together and sharing and in the spirit of that and me as an individual who seems to make things complicated for myself in order to attempt to make things easy for others (although that does often fail), I have sent off a piece of mail art.  There is a story attached to it, probably too many stories in fact, maybe for later.  But when I had a true moment, when my hands were shaking from something technical I had to do and needed to feel relaxed, I crafted to calm.  I tied together the pieces of fabric I picked up in a bagged up bundle in a tailors shop.  I did it quickly and I did it because I wanted to send something through the post and I wanted to send something to share with everyone.  The fabric shows the choices people have here on this island, quite literally, but I hope that people will take a piece of it during the exhibition and whatever is left will go into the fabric bin in the college in Canterbury which is one of the many places there where dreams are made.  As I was tying the pieces I noticed one part was tied together like a knot, I kept it that way and made that the middle.  I also noticed a clean pair of pants that had fallen into the pile, they have remained behind (I’ll need them anyway), as too have a few scraps of material which are smaller and too difficult to tie.  So that’s my piece, it can be stretched out on the floor, left in a pile in the corner, or dangled from the ceiling.   If it wraps around the corner somewhere on the ground like a harmless snake, then that would be pleasing for me.  I will email an edited piece of writing to go up near it, if that’s okay. From someone who tries hard to relate, adapt and to share, and currently tries to do as many things as possible in a day, a piece of work which I think is the most honest.