Whether working in Scottsdale, Arizona, or Fukuoka City, Japan, Jin Choi and Thomas Shine have found that crochet is a universal language. The pair engage communities around the world in large-scale projects that involve crafting elaborate lace patterns to be fastened to an iron armature. Both delicate and monumental, the finished works emerge from hundreds of hands and even more hours of labor, all bound together by shared making.

Choi and Shine are formally trained as architects and came to community art partly out of necessity. They had been crocheting immense installations, which was demanding, and when they had an offer for help, they decided to take it. The duo quickly realized the joy of bringing people together to work collectively, and soon, finding local groups to create with became a mainstay of their practice. “It’s really emotional to see how people get together from all these different backgrounds, different walks of life, and become friends, you know?” Choi tells Colossal. “It’s amazing how it creates a real community and sense of ownership in such a short time.”

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