Origin

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The Origin of the Idea

The origin of this idea sprang from the proposal I made months and months ago for the District of Columbia Arts Decathlon. My proposal was called Thread of Life and based on the story of The Three Fates of Greek Mythology.

As this project has evolved my direction has veered into memory, how we remember, and how we sometimes forget or abandon our memories. This led to the yarn collecting project.

In essence I am collecting ideas that were once new and have been abandoned.

As a result of my call for unfinished projects I have been given projects that have been held onto for up to 50 years.

In some cases the ideas may have died but the memory remained, there was a holding on, a hesitation to let go, to metaphorically cut the thread. In a few rare cases people were relieved to have these projects gone.