Across the Chalk Line. 2015
Site-specific installation
46 x 38 m
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation

A quote from CLR James’s 1963 book Beyond a Boundary demarcates the field’s boundary line in four languages, asking 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' James’s question is inspired by a line from Rudyard Kipling’s 1891 poem The English Flag: ‘What do they know of England who only England know?’ The quote, now rendered in Arabic, English, Malayalam and Urdu, questions what those who play the game understand about its cultural and political significance, and moreover, what its players know of cricket’s meanings in cultures beyond their native land.