Gracie Margherita Elbel Luc Cimino

Loosening fine hairs, ripping because you have to and bracing it because you love giving the strength of your arm to patience

Used underwear, used socks, brushed hair

“Hands growing tired and hair forming knots out of control. Not knowing how knots form or how hands have the capacity to untangle them. How hands have the power to clean, to repurify. Pieces of fabric that touched skin on the ground. Hair from one skin soiled material of another. The method is to take what you lose and fix what you have. Desire of attainment or entanglement. Unknottedness and longing, de-tanglement to repurify. The idea that hair is a veil, grown long to provide protection, is associated with virginity, and purity. Right of passage to be cut off. Could you ask for your hair to be brushed and let it rip out, with care, by hands other than your own. Fine hairs being loosened. To be used to mend another form of protection. The passing of time, rights of passage, the right to pass on, the right to use, the right to be used.Hair on underwear. Brushed hair on holes in underwear and socks.”