In daily moments prompted by the social app Be Real, I snap pictures of my surroundings via the photo filter app, camera+, altering the photo into a pixelated, color-minimal translation. I then convert these images into weaving files legible to the Tc2 digital jacquard loom. My process collaborates with technology, retranslating images into textiles that both distort and archive the everyday.

December 1, 2022 8:16pm

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Data Diary, October 2022

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2022, Cotton, & Acrylic
Each approximately 8” x 8”

This series of 31 double cloth weavings are data visualization of my daily life each day of October. Every element of the design notes an experience, for instance fringe symbolizes the weather, stuffing denotes menstruation, and embroidered shapes indicate emotions etc. The key below allows the viewer to decode each day.

Recipe Portrait Book

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2023, 12” x 12” x 2”
Cotton and polyester fabric book machine embroidered and handwoven on a Tc2 digital jacquard loom.

The following collection of digitally-woven jacquard portraits archive my matriarchal history by way of  heirloom recipes. Each entry pairs a recipe with the matriarch most notably associated with that baked good, woven in the handwriting of its author.

The collection begins with the earliest generation of women that have raised me, and culminates in self portraiture. The recipes were taught to me by these women, each feeding into the next generation as they have been passed down to me and carry on through me. I see each matriarch as a collaborator to this book. I see their handwriting as their signature in this artwork. In archiving these recipes, some only existing orally before now, I honor these women and their influence on myself and my family. This book is an heirloom, ensuring these recipes propel our traditions forward into future generations.

Conversations with Jess

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Top Left Blue: September 2011 - February 2015
2021, Cotton, Acrylic
58” x 54”

Top Right Grey: January 2022 - March 2022
2022, Cotton, Acrylic
58” x 54”

The striping patterns created on these two blankets are derived from the chat history between my best friend and myself. Blue yarns indicate them sending a message to me, grey yarns indicate me sending a message to them, and white yarns note that change of the day. The paper strips show a visual of the message patterns I collected reviewing  our conversations.

Art Teacher Group Text Series 

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2022, Cotton, Acrylic, Wool
Each approximately 13” x 15”

This ongoing series of weavings serve as a visual representation of the conversations had by a cohort of art teachers discussing returning to teaching during the pandemic. Each color of yarn represents an individual, together they build stripings that mimic that cadence of the conversation.