forgotten
bolts

forgotten bolts

Installation of salvaged bolts woven with handspun hemp on driftwood
handspun hemp randomly dyed with chinese calligraphy ink
woven on warp-weighted loom
approximately 90 x 100 cm

discovered near a university in hong kong where i worked at the time, these forgotten bolts were gathered over several months from the end of 2019.  they had laid scattered and abandoned around many street corners, small metal casualties from the students’ dismantling of pedestrian fences for use as barricades during the 2019 political unrest. this installation is a remembrance of a significant historical event, and an attempt to record the “heaviness” of the widespread social turmoil that took place in hong kong.