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Six Million Stitches: Vienna 66,000
Site Responsive Memorial
2017
66,000 stitches of hair begins at the “Dopust Days of Open Performance Vienna” in front of Gallery 12-14. The hair comes from family, friends and passer-byes who donated their hair.
Stitched hair on wool blanket remnant
2017
Six Million Stitches: Vienna 66,000
Site responsive memorial
2017
Describing my emboridery process
Site responsive memorial
2017

SIX MILLION STITCHES is a responsive-memorial: remembering Jews who enriched their cultures and were murdered in the Holocaust. Mindy Yan Miller honours each life with a stitch of human hair, Sharon Yan keeps count in a book and Marcus Miller frames the act with contemporary accounts of lives well lived. The first iteration takes place in Vienna, an urban culture deeply inflected by its Jewish heritage.

Various sites in Vienna, Austria; June 29 – July 8, 2017

Photo Credit: Sharon Yan