For a few weeks on Miami Beach, two oversized soccer goals stand between 11th and 12th Street with nets hand-crocheted by women from artisan cooperatives across Argentina. Sea dragons, starfish, scorpions, and constellations emerge from the mesh. Big Goals is a public installation by PlayLab, commissioned as part of REEFLINE‘s program at the intersection of public art and marine conservation. Produced by artists Jessica Trosman and Emiliano Miliyo, the work arrives on Miami Beach as the city prepares to host matches during the FIFA World Cup 2026.

The nets were crocheted by hand using reclaimed textile materials, worked stitch by stitch by collectives of weavers from communities across Argentina. The process is as much part of the work as the finished object: labour-intensive, cumulative, built on collective effort and the transmission of craft knowledge. Forms of production that are often rendered invisible within contemporary design become, here, the primary subject.

Seen against the open sky and the Miami horizon, the woven figures read as something between textile and architecture — suspended within the goal’s metal frame, animate without moving. The scale is infrastructural. The method is domestic, intimate, centuries old.

REEFLINE’s environmental mission runs through the material choices: waste textiles given a second life, a process that mirrors — materially and metaphorically — the kind of cumulative, small-scale action that environmental work requires. Every stitch contributes to a larger image. The analogy is earned, not imposed.