For the Yak Yak exhibition, I was invited to enter into a dialogue and exchange with Neil Berecry-Brown of Brown’s Cows in Australia. To exhibit the results of our exchange, Neil and I came up with idea of a ‘cabinet de curiosité.’

 

We had many skype conversations as to what might go into the cabinet, and I remarked how I’ve begun to notice that much of the farm is held together with blue twine, known colloquially as ‘binder twine.’ I began to photograph the places where the binder twine was employed, and noticed balls of twine in the hedges that would be rolled out and used to stop cattle.

 

I decided to make a ball of binder twine out of a big collection of the twine in the barn. I was reminded me of the fairytale ‘Rumplestilskin,’ where the young girl has been put in a room with a big pile of straw and is expected to spin it into a pile of gold.

 

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