I do not count (detail)
barthes series
In April 2024, I was accepted to a 2-week artists’ residency at Praxis Fiber Workshop’s Digital Weaving Lab (DWL AIR), supported by funding from the University Research Council at Kent State University . During the residency, I created 5 large scale weavings to work as a series of 3 pieces titled after a quote from Roland Barthes ‘I pass, I intersect, I do not count’ to describe the process of reading. These pieces continue the research trajectory I established in my MFA thesis, and expand upon it to explore the centrality of text in shaping our experience of the world, and cohering culture, as well as the nature of text as inherently translatory, mutable and subjective. I presented about this research as part of the main conference program for TypeCon 2024 at Portland, Oregon with a paper entitled ‘Material Meaning’. The series was also exhibited in its entirety at the juried exhibition, Typeforce13, in Chicago in January 2025.
“I pass,” 27 × 48" 2024
bamboo, flagging tape, mohair, wool, acrylic, copper wire, cotton
handwoven on the TC2 digital loom at Praxis Digital Weaving Lab, CLE, OH.
Stencilling, inking, photocopying to accumulate artifacting and let go of control.
“I intersect,” 54 × 63" 2024
bamboo, flagging tape, mohair, wool, acrylic, copper wire, cotton
handwoven on the TC2 digital loom at Praxis Digital Weaving Lab, CLE, OH.
Layering and digital collage — building up.
“I do not count,” 54 × 72" 2024
bamboo, flagging tape, mohair, wool, acrylic, copper wire, cotton
handwoven on the TC2 digital loom at Praxis Digital Weaving Lab, CLE, OH.
(left) process of translating from graphic to structural
(middle) 3-weft system colors are used as notation to differentiate and simulate weft relationships
(right) loom reads black and white indexed file 1 pixel = 1 thread (end) on loom 1320 ends total
