Unable to work in a shared studio space, Kato developed a collaborative weaving process that could be executed remotely. She sent identical looms and materials to collaborators in seven countries, along with detailed instructions for specific weaving patterns. Each participant wove a section following Kato's patterns while also incorporating their own variations and improvisations.
The completed sections were shipped to Berlin, where Kato assembled them into a single large-scale installation that filled an entire gallery. The joins between sections — where different hands and different sensibilities met — became the most visually compelling parts of the work, visible as subtle shifts in tension, color, and pattern.
The installation was accompanied by video documentation of each collaborator at work, projected onto the textile surfaces themselves. These projections created a ghostly presence of the absent weavers, their hands moving across the fabric they had made, connecting the material object to the human relationships that produced it.
Critics praised the project for its ability to transform the constraints of pandemic isolation into a source of creative innovation, demonstrating that meaningful collaboration could transcend physical distance.
