Step behind the scenes and witness the creation of Together II: Waterfall, Tamiko Kawata’s largest site-specific installation for Alison Bradley Projects. In this short film, we take a closer look at the collaborative process that brought this installation to light.
Together II: Waterfall comprises 150 boxes—over 600 pounds—of safety pins, totaling approximately 216,600 individual units. The work unfolds across the gallery walls as an immense, undulating wave of silver. At eighty-nine years old, Kawata embarked on this ambitious project in the same collaborative spirit that has long animated her work. In a new commission produced with Alison Bradley Projects, Kawata held a series of public workshops over two weeks in New York City. More than 130 participants—artists, students, neighbors, and volunteers—gathered to learn Kawata’s sculptural technique, assembling ten-foot chains of interlinked pins. The repetitive yet mindful act of linking pins became an exercise in both craft and communion, an embodiment of the interpersonal connections that sustain community life.
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Morgan Rutter is a queer, New York–based multi-hyphenate filmmaker. A graduate of the University of Southern California with a BFA in Acting, Morgan merges performance-driven intuition with sharp visual storytelling. She has produced award-winning short films and served as an associate producer on Emmy-nominated television. With a keen eye behind the camera, Morgan creates films that feel lived-in, sensory, and deeply immersive; inviting audiences to step inside the emotional landscapes of the work and experience the world through a more expansive, compassionate lens. — Alison Bradley Projects is a New York–based gallery dedicated to advancing engagement with Japanese postwar art and contemporary practices.
