Where Is The Red Line? and Red Line Story continue my ongoing exploration of 'the red line'—both as a visual presence and a question I could not stop asking.

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I took red cotton string and wrapped it around trees, light poles, handrails, wherever I felt drawn to. Cut, reconstructed, and knotted, it became a thread connecting the site to its urban landscape, its natural character, and the many layers of meaning humans have woven around it over time. People were free to touch it.

Throughout history and across cultures, the red string has carried protection, faith, good luck, and connection. In Eastern philosophies, it speaks of invisible bonds between people, and between the self and the universe. But the red line is also a threshold, a warning, a place one must not go beyond. Living far from somewhere I once called home, where red lines had multiplied yet their boundaries remained impossible to define, this duality felt impossible to ignore. That tension became the ground from which both works grew.

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Red Line Story (2022) is a moving image that gives this tension movement and sound. Through dance performance and original music, it traces the fate of the red line, how it reaches toward nature and the cosmos, and how it can also signal danger. Like yin and yang, it holds two truths at once.

Where is the red line? The answer depends entirely on where you stand.

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Exhibited as part of Parallel Wanderings at The Concourse Chatswood, February 2022.

Commissioned by Willoughby City Council

Featured in Garland Magazine: Alma Studholme: "Pamela Leung's Red Line Story" 2022.