The sentence “You are now Friends” is used by social media platforms that claim to connect people by sharing imagery. I tried to imagine what the sentence would look like if it was lifted out of our digital screens and into the real world. What would happen if a cinema-screen would make the same claim to its audience in a film-theatre? What if a painting in an exhibition would proclaim to connect its audience by sharing a visual experience?
I subsequently changed the medium used for “Request” from digital pixels to analogue hand-embroidery. My mother-in-law and I shared the needlework. After having started to embroider the text myself, she took over and did the more difficult ornaments.

The looks of “Request” resemble a silent movie title-screen.

It was presented at a public exhibition where it could be found at the very end of the space.