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Keith Clougherty
A rosary of handmade linen string laid on concrete, with beads made of found objects such as a toy wheel, a garlic bulb and a corn cob
Eldercare Residency

Infrastructure Rosary

Year
2014
Medium
Crocheted linen
Materials
Home-grown flax spun into linen string
Availability
Not for sale

About the work

In 2014, Keith planted a small crop of flax to make home-spun linen. What came of out this process is a crocheted infrastructure rosary with 13 items representing different life-sustaining processes. This rosary is used to pray for universal access to basic human rights in a way that doesn’t destroy planet Earth and to heal the damage caused by colonial, capitalist infrastructure systems. The 13 basic infrastructure systems are: food, water, healthcare, communication, waste, circulation, energy, materials, shelter, care, production, security, and land.

  • Flax seedlings

  • Flax going to seed

  • Retting the flax

  • Auntie peeling the flax

  • Flax seed saving

  • Flax into linen string

Video

A rosary of handmade linen string laid on concrete, with beads made of found objects such as a toy wheel, a garlic bulb and a corn cob
Video explaining the infrastructure rosary.