Knotting Culture, Carving Culture treats knotting as both a practical technology and a way of recording. The project moves between an old system of marks and the contemporary desire to keep information, bodies and histories from disappearing.
Final work
The final installation joins rope, wood, canvas and stone. A tree-like form carries knotted structures while a stone receives two handprints. The work was activated through waiting and pushing actions, so installation and performance remain connected rather than separate.
Process
Small rope forms, samples and floor arrangements were necessary experiments, not independent final works. They remain here as a record of touch, repetition and failed or provisional structures.
Research
The research considered knotting as a system of recording, alongside marking, maps, persona work and the pressure to preserve social traces. References are presented as context for the project, not as claims of affiliation with the artists or historical sources shown in the original portfolio.