A. Hamilton 1991, Indigo Blue, Spoleto Festival, Charleston Platform of work clothes. Photograph courtesy the artist.
This design is inspired by Ann Hamilton’s installation works. She uses a range of objects and materials such as leaves, animal hair, candles and waste materials. Hamilton uses great quantities and arranges them in a way that they become astounding just in themselves.

In 1991 Hamilton’s work ‘Indigo Blue’ site-specific installation in an old garage in the industrial area of Charleston. The work essentially raises the awareness of manual labour and pay respect to the unknown worker. Her work is constructed of 48,000 worker’s clothes stacking on top of each other into a pyramid shape. The clothes symbolize the bodies of anonymous men and women who contributed their labour to the fortunes of the wealth companies. It’s a symbolic act of replacing or re-writing the history. The strategic element of the installation related to the physical and metaphorical placement of the workers below and the management above.​​​​​​​
A. Hamilton 1991, Indigo Blue, Spoleto Festival, Charleston Platform of work clothes (detail). Photograph courtesy the artist.
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