Theda Sandiford “Joyful Resistance” exhibition in Bedminster features shopping cart sculptures such as these. Zip ties have many uses. They’re handy in construction, or gardening, or for tethering together cardboard displays in the grocery store. They make decent substitute shoelaces if your sneakers are falling apart. And policemen short of metal handcuffs sometimes apply zip ties to the wrists of the recalcitrant. If you were a participant in any of the mass protests of 2020 and 2021, you may have personal experience of this practice. You may have felt the bite of flexi-cuffs on your bare ar…
