The Cocoon project, an international artwork by New York artist Kate Browne, works with communities with strong and often turbulent histories of immigration. After Mexico City, Mississippi and New York's South Bronx, Browne has set up shop in Paris ās most multi-ethnic neighbourhood, the Goutte dāOr.
Over the years this working-class area in north Paris has welcomed Europeans, north Africans and now, increasingly, people from sub-Saharan Africa.
The live alongside one another but donāt necessarily mix.
Browne is welcoming everyone - whatever their faith, sexuality, age or social class - to join in workshops where they make small cocoons out of their own or locally-sourced materials.
āIntimate and vivid expressions of the participantsā individual visions - or wishes and prayers - for their pasts, presents, and futures,ā she says.
The cocoons, along with recordings of participantsā stories will be part of a large cocoon sculpture, to be revealed at the Nuit Blanche contemporary art festival on 4 October 2014.
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