Client
Machi Teshima
Director, DP, Producer, Grip/Gaff, Sound, Edit, Color
Conor King
Script, Voiceover
Machi Teshima
The INCITE Fund—an initiative of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, administered by RedLine Contemporary Art Center—supports bold, community-driven projects that expand the definition of visual art and take place outside traditional institutions. Artist Machi Teshima received an INCITE grant for Musubi, a public art installation that brought together natural materials, collective labor, and time-based transformation.
Musubi is a large-scale knot installation composed of more than a thousand hand-tied fabric knots, all dyed with natural materials and attached to a fence at a Denver Public School.
This short documentary captures that evolution. It follows the hands of community members tying knots, Machi stirring natural dyes, and the quiet transformation of the work over time. What begins as a vibrant act of making becomes a meditation on change, impermanence, and collective memory—left exposed to sun, wind, and passersby, evolving in plain sight.
Over the course of six months, the work aged in place—its colors shifting in the sun, its texture shaped by wind and weather. Because of the temporary nature of the piece, Machi saw the need to document the full lifecycle of the project: from community workshops to the final faded form.
