Fabrications constructs a para-fiction around the history of Palestine. Evoking a blue land ravaged by colonization, it describes a dazzling geological phenomenon: vast quarries of raw indigo. Through a series of distortions, fictions, and counterhistories, the work performs the uncertainty that pervades Palestine’s borders, topologies, and geopolitical status. It concentrates a state of ambiguity into a poetic delusion. As such, the land itself becomes a vessel for the imagination. In producing this work, Hutchison collaborated with the employees of Al-Aqqad & Partner Fashions, a denim producer based in Nablus. For a six-month period during Palestine’s Second Intifada, this factory operated under the immediate sightline of an Israeli tank: its cannon pointed directly at the building. To understand the physiological effect of these labour conditions, the artist commissioned the factory to manufacture jeans that represented what it was like to manufacture jeans at the factory.