Kelly Jin Mei (Limerick) |Singapore
林妗鎂 (Limerick) | 新加坡

While weaving is made up of many different warp and wefts (like in the Yuetao weaving at the bottom), crochet is made by one continuous thread. Creating this was a challenge at merging 2 techniques that are foundationally different.

 

‘Linked’ is an exploration of breaking and rejoining. Even when the form splits in two, itultimately joins back into the same one sculpture seamlessly, giving the impression thatthe holes have worn through the middle as they do in coastal rock formations. The twoseparate materials seem to have grown around each other with time.

The ring of Yuetao in the middle of the 2 holes is a closed loop, making one wonderwhere it starts and where it ends, and how it has become 1 with the organic shape that also has no obvious opening.

Contrasted against the regularity of the Yuetao weave, the crochet’s organic form is further emphasised by the gradient of natural colours of Shulang-dyed ramie in its varying thickness due to hand-spinning.