Minute Lines

Jess Blaustein

Will you make time for us?

Time stretches and scratches—sometimes flying through our fingers, other times catching and pulling, stuck on the same old thread. We feel it, and move through it as it unravels, links, loops and tangles us up. While we often think in terms of navigating space, this ongoing project ponders how we navigate time. Lean back and get lost in time for a while, using a simple crochet chain stitch to create your minute line. Minute Lines are as long as it takes to make them, and we invite you to fill our spools with time as line wound over the course of the exhibition. A slow form of wool gathering made by hand. Whether you are filling time or killing time, spending time or giving time, capture what you can from the clock and take pleasure in the process.

Where do you get lost in time?

BIOGRAPHY

Jess Blaustein (USA) is a New York-based conceptual artist who plays with soft materials to make sense of hard things. With backgrounds across architecture and the humanities, she sees craft as covert intelligence and concocts various tactile objects and environments from miniature to installation scale.

 With thanks to Associate Professor Simon Cropper, Deputy Director of the Complex Human Data Hub, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne