Women with long, braided hair are a recurring theme in artist Amy Cutler's work. Symbolising links to the past and personal history, the profusion of braids in the exhibition Fossa was inspired by a visit Cutler made to the Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto. There she saw the remnants of ropes made from the hair of female devotees, that had been used to hoist massive wooden beams in rebuilding the temple after a devastating fire in the late 19th century.
