Client
Machi Teshima

Director / DP  •  Production  •  Grip  •  Sound  •  Edit  •  Color
Conor King

The INCITE Fund, an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Program, administered by RedLine Contemporary Art Center, funds projects that challenge traditional notions of the visual arts and take place outside the traditional museum, gallery, or art center setting. Machi Teshima was awarded an INCITE Fund grant for her project titled Musubi.

Musubi is a collectively made knot art installation made from more than a thousand fabric knots dyed with naturally materials and installed on the surface of a fence at a Denver Public School. The work was displayed for six months, during which the knots aged and dye faded in the sun and weather. Due to the temporary installation and unique location, Machi felt that it was important to create a short documentary to show the process of making the work and to archive the artwork.

This short documentary follows Machi leading a workshop, where community members helped to try knots, her dying process, installing the work and final documentation, recorded six months later, showing the change in the artwork.