Collaboration and community lie at the heart of Sheila Pepe’s practice. In this site-specific installation, she reverses the notion of individual creation by inviting unmaking. Pepe crocheted the piece—which consists of purple yarns and a black, skeletal substructure—in her studio, and then installed it at MAD. Visitors are invited to strip the skeleton bare at select times throughout the course of the exhibition, and to use the materials in new creations, such as functional garments like scarves or gloves. The site-specific web is only “completed” when its fibers are totally dismantled. Through its activation, Pepe’s installation instigates a cycle of creative reuse and exchange. Common Sense installations, begun in a collaboration with curator and museum director Elizabeth Dunbar in 2009, have been activated around the world at venues in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Tbilisi, and Athens.