90 Miles, a multimedia installation created by Carlos Alejandro, is intended as an interactive installation and dialogue on immigration and human rights. His ongoing crocheting project uses 90 miles of multi- colored yarn, creating a continuous strip totaling approximately 1.5 miles, yet if unraveled the sum is equal to 90 miles, symbolic of the distance between Key West and Cuba. Alejandro’s works are typically a vast array of non-conventional materials such as pills, hair, bottle caps, chopsticks and in this particular project, yarn, taking common everyday objects out of their context and transforming them into visual discourses. Carlos Alejandro obtained his undergraduate degree from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogota, Colombia and soon thereafter relocated to South Florida. He has exhibited widely throughout Miami and has participated in several cultural exchanges, workshops and talks throughout the city where he currently works and resides.
Inspired by 90 Miles and the book When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, MDC MOA+D and the Center for Writing & Literature at MDC invite the community to partake in a workshop that combines a deep-rooted love for the art of knitting and poetic beauty of writing a haiku. Visitors will be able to learn simple knitting techniques while writing two haikus about hope in any form on strips of fabric. Participants will keep one for themselves and add one to a community chain, forming a string of collective well-wishing. The community workshop will take place Saturday, February 14, from noon to 4 p.m. and is FREE and open to the public.
MDC Museum of Art + Design
600 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL, 33132
305.237.7700
www.mdcmoad.org
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