Cordel no Biombo

Cordel no Biombo is an interactive installation where students, alumni, faculty and staff were encouraged to add to the piece over the course of a week. 

The structure is built to resemble a Biombo (japanese screen divider), string and rope was fixed across the open structure to resemble clotheslines, and participants were encouraged to "share a story". In addition to the stories pinned by members of the community, photographs and artworks were attatched to the rope lines prior to the installation to create a theme where participants could then inspire their stories off of. 

All images in the piece were taken at Hampshire College from august 2022 through april 2026.

The act of afixing stories, images and art onto rope/clothelines was idealized in honor of an historic Brazilian custom of literature distribution within small towns. Writers would create several woodblock print copies of their stories and hang them in the town square on clothelines where townspeople could easily purchase these stories.