Studio
Working on the TC2 digital Jacquard loom, I translate images into computational weave structures that determine how thousands of individual warp threads rise and fall. Yet the weaving remains physical and embodied: I throw each shuttle by hand, responding to the cloth as it emerges.
On the frame loom, that relationship is reversed. There is no code or automated selection; every shape is built manually through discontinuous weft, tension, gesture, and touch.
These two weaving systems are separated by centuries, yet both operate through the same fundamental logic - warp and weft, over and under, structure and pattern. Moving between them reveals the loom not as an ancient technology opposed to computation, but as part of a long continuum of systems for encoding, translating, and materializing information.
My work investigates what happens when living systems are translated through computational systems designed to observe, measure, and reconstruct them. Moving between drawing, photographic imagery, computational processes, and weaving technologies separated by centuries, I build recursive systems in which each translation becomes the source for the next. Distortion, error, and material resistance are not failures but evidence of what escapes the system—what remains unstable, unpredictable, and alive.
Weaving becomes meaning and metaphor for contemplating memory, erosion, impermanence, continuity, and our place within deep time.
