The first iteration of this project was made in 2005 for a soloshow at SOHO20/Chelsea. It consisted of 17 spheres made up of square-cut pieces of fabrics, long lineages of designs I had been involved with over many years. They were suspended on ropes made of twisted fabric strips, and the piece took up a wall in the gallery. I brought the pieces to Sweden in 2010, and installed them on a fence surrounding my summer house. They stayed on the fence for two years, and during the next two years were moved to other structures, and an apple tree. Then I took them down, undid the spheres, washed the fabric scraps, and observed the changes in them (I had thought they would have disintegrated, but apart from considerable fading, most were intact!). In the spring of 2017 I pieced them together into 11 strips of 10-25 meters length, and wrapped these around the trunks of trees in the Mikaelspark outside my apartment house in Uppsala, Sweden, and accompanied them with signage encouraging viewers to value and protect trees here and everywhere in the rapidly expanding city.
A large wallpiece fromSOHO/20 CHELSEA Show, each sphere is composed of a fabric of some significance. Some are handwoven, by me or others, some are designed by me, others came from my fabric hoard.