At the peaceful town of Telde today they weave natural threads such as silk. At the same time an invisible kind of material was woven, one which cannot be seen yet which joined the island of Gran Canaria with the gigantic land of China in a straight line. This invisible thread was woven by Sanmao, dispite the long distance and the time involved.

In this numerical year of 2018 everything we see is measured and told and retold. The distance between two points has an exact and unshakeable number: this many kilometres, that many flying hours, so many years.

Yet Sanmao’s world flows against the tide. At the start of her first trip, there would have been many kilometres distance and many more flying hours that there are today, while in between lay a world of cultural differences between China and Gran Canaria, which are said to be many, but back then were likely to have been even greater and more difficult to measure. However, Gran Canaria was the place chosen by Sanmao. This happened over 30 years ago.