Deirdre Macleod

In this performative walk a textile, woven on the streets of a Scottish city, is unravelled and re-woven in New York City, absorbing events and encounters. ‘Ravel’ explores how the identities that we project are made across space and time. It is also a homage to emigration journeys made exactly one hundred years ago by Harris Tweed weavers from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, across the Atlantic, to North America. Clothed in a shawl of Harris Tweed, the artist will stop, sit and weave at various points along 14th Street. The audience is warmly invited to talk to the artist as she works and to add a thread or small object to her textile.