The project "Making Knots" begins as a response to Elaine Scarry’s writing The Body in Pain, wherein Scarry identifies domestic objects that are used as instruments of pain in the private space of torture. These objects, when removed from the external world and everyday usage, are intended to inflict pain but also aid in the “unmaking of civilization [which] inevitably requires a return to and mutilation of the domestic, the ground of all making” (45).