One of the works I particularly liked at the exhibition was an installation called ‘Handkerchiefs’ 4.5m x 2.5m by Diane Harrison. This piece of work is made up of over-dyed and discharge printed handkerchiefs, laid out in the pattern to follow the flag stones on the floor. 

What Inspired me so much about the piece is that all the over-dyeing and discharge printing, has embedded itself into the handkerchiefs, like the marks/ memories on the flagstones that had been left from years ago by the workers in the spinning room. I think that each tiny stain left in the weave of the handkerchiefs is like a mark on the surface of the flagstones, and the way they have been presented only enhances the connection between the flagstones and Diane Harrison’s work.