Nails

One thing you cannot skip seeing when walking on the street in almost any Latin American village, are the knitting women, walking around, covered in the handmade things they make and sell. What you don`t see very often is how these women actually create their stuff.
One day, on the way back home, in a mexican village, I ran into a couple of women, sitting on the sidewalk, next to a wooden, electricity pole, with a nail in it, useing that nail for knitting. For a lot of people that nail was so unimportant that it passed completely unoticed. For the knitting women, on the other hand, it was an extremely important detail, that helped them go on with their work.
Within my project, every wooden pole on Diego de Masariegos, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico got one nail. Most likely, the 12 nails added were never noticed by passers-by,  as the original nail, used by the knitting women.
Since the project was both about the women, but most of all, for them, I can only wonder if the knitting women noticed and used the nails I added.

"Nails", Photo on wood, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico, May 2012