The Letting Go
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The Letting Go
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“Many immigrants had brought on board balls of yarn, leaving one end of the line with someone on land. As the ship cleared the dock, the balls unwound… After the yarn ran out, the long strips remained airborne, sustained by the wind, long after those on land and those at sea had lost sight of each other.”
Luciano De Crescenzo 

Composed of 20,000 feet of hand-dyed tethered nautical rope, The Letting Go is an expansive spatial installation. Inspired by the quotation above, the piece is an exercise in connection articulated across both specific points and physical planes. The architecture of the work is formed from the seven points of origin Scacco consistently uses in her practice. These points, which represent her emotional geography, are then connected by rope to 19 destination points, each corresponding to a physical location. On the wall, a series of minimal wooden sculptures act as anchors between these points. The rope, dyed in seven shades of blue (each referencing a single point of origin), is wound into three loosely woven parts representing the intertwined relationship of time, memory and place. For Scacco, our impressions of our lives are a direct reflection on the interdependency of these three elements; they cannot be separated or weighed independently, and their impact on our lives is unquantifiable.

The Letting Go
Hand-dyed nautical rope, teak 21 x 11 x 8 ft — 2015

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Timelapse audio: Colores by Storms. 

“Many immigrants had brought on board balls of yarn, leaving one end of the line with someone on land. As the ship cleared the dock, the balls unwound… After the yarn ran out, the long strips remained airborne, sustained by the wind, long after those on land and those at sea had lost sight of each other.”
Luciano De Crescenzo 

Composed of 20,000 feet of hand-dyed tethered nautical rope, The Letting Go is an expansive spatial installation. Inspired by the quotation above, the piece is an exercise in connection articulated across both specific points and physical planes. The architecture of the work is formed from the seven points of origin Scacco consistently uses in her practice. These points, which represent her emotional geography, are then connected by rope to 19 destination points, each corresponding to a physical location. On the wall, a series of minimal wooden sculptures act as anchors between these points. The rope, dyed in seven shades of blue (each referencing a single point of origin), is wound into three loosely woven parts representing the intertwined relationship of time, memory and place. For Scacco, our impressions of our lives are a direct reflection on the interdependency of these three elements; they cannot be separated or weighed independently, and their impact on our lives is unquantifiable.

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