map art > Shift

The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

Installation of map thread with the historic textile machinery of the museum

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
Shift (detail)
National Geographic Society paper maps, invisible thread, wooden spools
various dimensions
2006