These performances use a knitted garment and my body's movement as an analogy for the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Just as the earths process takes a long time to produce fossil fuel a knitted garment takes a long time to knit. Yet if you get the right end of the knitting it will unravel in seconds, just as humanity is consuming the non renewable fossil fuels at a rapid rate.
As a ritual over 3 years I performed some 20 site specific ‘unravelling’s’. Sometimes these have an audience of one or two people, some witnessed by unmanned cameras. The landscape is always watching. The metaphor and action of unravelling on-site provides a way for the relationship between production and consumption to be physically and visually explored. It also offers a new way to understand the effects of the relentless act of consumption, through the expertise of movement, rather than only through the expertise of science – an area I and many others are unversed in.
