Introduction

Threaded Ties is a collaboration between artists Laine Hogarty and Tamsin Salehian.

Artists Statement:

In the bustle of our daily experience we are prone to overlook the relevance of our connections to the environment and to each other. Through observing the landscape two artists connect to make a joint response to site.  Making a series of integrated environmental interventions they thread together an intuitive understanding of place.The work will form by the action and playfulexchange between the artists, wrapping,binding and releasing objects to reconfigure them into unexpected arrangements

 Adopting Japanese principles of “Wabi Sabi”, they seek to unveil the resident beauty by making less obvious forms and connections. 

"[Wabi-sabi] nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."  

As a symbol of invisible ties that link us, the collaborative work acknowledges the abundance of manifold connections that congregate as part of our experience of life. Whenever we consider such connections we are also reminded of the inevitability of their impermanency,  the very essence of our connections follows the Wabi Sabi princple.

Through the creation of ephemeral works the artists hope to allows us to see afresh the perfection of our imperfect connections.

Through the creation of ephemeral works the artists hope to allows us to see afresh the perfection of our imperfect connections.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

Our collaborative work will be a site specificpiece developed especially for the Willoughby site. It involves the work developing through a conversation and exchange of ideas and objects between the two artists, the 'connection' is the work, the points of exchange trading across the artists practice. Connection to place as a site of understanding and also as a physical site of history, connection to land and site of mark making.