So I had to look ‘what is it’ up:
Sheila Hicks’s Best Work Is Not at the Whitney Biennial
http://artfcity.com/2014/03/13/sheila-hicks-best-work-is-not-at-the-biennial/
She should have hung it outside & then birds could have incorporated the ‘threads’ into REAL works of art ... their nests!
(I keep thinking dreadlocks, a groady hairstyle. "A haunt of fleas on summers eve" apologies to J. Keats! )