"Hair is living but it is not alive. It is sensuous but it has no feelings. Hair is never fixed, we can transform our hair into whatever we choose but at the same time it will always try to return to a tangle. What we do to our hair expresses both our interiority and our relationship to social pressures. Hair is one of these things that is used to divide us but it is also what unites us with all other mammals. Strand is a work that I made almost entirely of hair, but hair that is animated and given a life of its own. Its is a celebration of the beauty and strangeness of hair." – Patricia Piccinini, 2025