Kerchief: the Live Portion of Our Sculpture Program
Over the past several weeks, 72 people have joined in a long-distance, communal sculpture-making process by stitching handkerchiefs according to the prompt:
What must be remembered?
What a gift of yes-ness! My gratitude spills over to all of you who have counseled me and joined in this memorialization and metabolization process.
[Here's an article reflecting on Kerchief and other projects thinking through similar questions...we are not the only ones seeking a physical expression of what we are going through.]
Now it is time for the live portion of Kerchief, in which your individual contributions become part of a whole, and that whole takes the shape of a blanket-shroud cast over bodies.
Day: Friday, April 23rd
Time: 1pm to (approximately) 3pm
What: Showing off your kerchiefs. Sewing our hankies together. Building wire armature. Molding fabric into a rigid structure around bodies. Ritualized Labor. Closing the loop of Call & Response.
Where: In an attic nook, but also online. There are two ways to attend.
- On the facebook page (available even if not logged in) at www.facebook.com/divinekerchief.
- Over zoom at https://yale.zoom.us/j/94779342571.
You are welcome to comment, ask questions, share stories, and whatever else moves you via both platforms. I will mix up tending to the livestreams with tending to the sculpture. Feel free to join in and depart for as much time as you wish.
Questions? haven.herrin@yale.edu.
This sculpture will live in future with the Institute of Sacred Music. Big, official thanks to the Graduate and Professional Student Senate #yalesenate and the Institute of Sacred Music #yaleism for their support of Kerchief.
