photographs, 2019

Weaveforms is a series of photographs made while I was in the process of learning how to weave textile samples on a loom. Each time I finished a small woven piece, I would take the sample off the loom and put it on a photocopier to make an image of it. As a photographer, I was interested in trying to bridge physical and digital spaces and wanted to bring the physical rhythm I felt on the loom into the photographs of these textiles. As I made a digital photocopy of each weave, I would move the weave on the copier bed, mimicing the movements of my body while weaving on the loom. My movements during the copy process resulted in glitchy, rythmic distortions of each image. The resulting image studies extend my body’s physical work on the loom into a digital space. They both break down and add on to the traditional weave structures I was learning to produce; each image becomes its own new, uncanny type of textile.

Study 02, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.

Study 08, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.

Detail.

Study 04, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.

Study 05, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.

Study 03, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.

Study 06, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.

Study 12, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.

Study 02, archival inkjet print, 70 x 70 cm.

Study 10, Archival inkjet print, 70 x 70 cm.

Study 14, archival inkjet print, 70 x 70 cm.

Study 11, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.

Study 09, archival inkjet print, 70 x 100 cm.