map art > Shift

The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

Map of the world that depicts a collaborative initiative with the public to identify where their clothes came from: white for tops, blue for pants, orange for shoes

The installation addresses the economic concern of the shift from the small scale by-gone local industry to the present day global initiatives of the garment industry

cartography, mapping, borders, recycling paper, 2d map to a 3d world, third world labor, factory
Made in
National Geographic Society map, map pins with flags
75 x 125 x 2 cm
2006