Connecting the Dots: Drawing / Stitching Otherwise Networks

What internet(s) do we dream of? Our last stop during our 2024 workshop-walk 'Writing Telegrams to Fungi' brought us to Art in Transit at Cubbon Park's metro station.
I had transferred an online map of submarine cable landing stations onto a linen fabric as dots. This abstract image still showed that most stations are situated above the equator. Using found objects from our walk at Cubbon Park, we started embroidering new kinds of connections between the dots. Leaves, roots, fungi, and lichens became part of our internet worldings.

A large piece of grey-brown linen fabric is photographed from above. Black painted dots in the upper half of the fabric represent internet landing stations and participants have connected them in new ways by using yarn and natural materials. Strings in many colours enter and exit the fabric, forming an embroidered network. A leaf, pieces of bark, and knotted strings have been knitted into the fabric as well and form nodes. Across the fabric, pens, needles and balls of unused yarn are scattered. This photo shows a close up of a linen fabric that someone has painted black dots on top of. These dots form clusters, but it’s difficult to name any definite shape they form. The cap of a green pen enters the image from below. This photo was taken during a workshop in which participants later connected the dots, which represent internet landing stations, with pens and yarn.