Contamination Issue

June 2025

Threshold Zine

Hong Kong: A Study in Material, Memory, and Place Mia Upton’s woven series explores the idea of contamination - not as destruction, but as transformation. Her work examines how time, memory, and material interact, blurring the boundaries between past and present, permanence and impermanence, value and waste. Created from cashmere using soft black and white-cream yarn sourced from industry waste, these intricate woven compositions embody the contamination of tradition by modernity, and of material by history.

In a world of fast consumption and rapid erasure, her practice highlights how memory, place, and material are never untouched, but always in flux - continuously altered, reshaped, and contaminated by time.

Thank you Mia Upton for being part of our first ever issue: 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯