The title of the exhibition, 'dinnae' means 'do not' in Scottish vernacular. Far from a welcome mat, the Dinnae rug reads as more of a warning mat with a curt tone: do not walk here. Made with a traditional craft method, latch-hooking, the soft surface does not match its graphic black and white message. Farting, floating asses adorn the blinds above it, cutting out most of the outside light besides that which pierces through the small hole-punched holes. This is the land of farce.
An adjacent room has another roller blind with text that looks like a star-scape at night. It reads: "And tap, tap, tap your troubles away," reference to the 70s show-tune song of the same name. This darkened space also hosts a short, diminutive video that plays as if seen through a peephole. Shaky wooden legs jump up and down tapping inconsistently to the same tap song until one of the feet fall off... you are witness to the failed attempt of trying to tap, tap, tap your troubles away.
