Object Therapy Work_

Elizabeth felt disappointed and resigned when she snapped her knitting needles in March of 2015. She threw them out but then fished them out of the bin after twenty minutes having taken a moment to consider their history. She was given the needles by her Gran when she was six years old and has been knitting with them for more than 35 years. The knitting needles are a link back to her Gran and Elizabeth wanted to preserve that link. Repairers Kyoko Hashimoto and Guy Keulemans acknowledged that Elizabeth’s connection to the object was not for functional reasons as she had many knitting needles of similar sizes. They preserved the broken object inside a wearable transparent polymer resin bracelet. as a bracelet on her wrist, its little slices speak of the repetition of knitting patterns, and the progression of life, year by year.

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CREDITS_

Object Therapy was a Hotel Hotel project developed in collaboration with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Australian National University (ANU).

Curators: Guy Keulemans, Andy Marks, Niklavs Rubenis, Dan Honey
Project designers: Guy Keulemans, Andy Marks
Research investigators: Guy Keulemans, Andy Marks, Niklavs Rubenis
Photography: Lee Grant