PHOTO-BASED textiles 2020 - ongoing

This series begins with digitally produced Jacquard blankets woven from photographic images of the female body and subsequently transformed through acts of hand labor—stitched, cut, and layered as gestures of commentary and resistance within the current socio-political climate. Drawing on forms of domestic labor such as mending and repair, these interventions operate both materially and symbolically, disrupting the authority of the mechanically woven image. Grounded in the coded logic that links the Jacquard loom—an early programmable system—to digital photography, where images are translated into data and constructed through pixels, the works position the body within a continuum of technological control and manual reclamation. The photographic surface becomes a site where algorithmic order is unsettled by embodied gesture.

Following their digital generation and mechanical production, each blanket is reworked through durational, tactile processes that reassert the presence of the hand. These acts of domestic intervention slow the forward thrust of automation, shifting the work into a contemplative and corporeal register. Unraveling, stitching, and layering destabilize the fixed authority of the photographic image, reinscribing touch, care, and physical labor into a surface originally governed by code.

Situated within the vulnerabilities of the present socio-political climate, the works function as quiet yet deliberate acts of resistance. The intimacy and slowness of handwork counter conditions of acceleration, disembodiment, and instability, transforming the blankets into charged spaces of protection, reflection, and emotional resonance. Moving from digital code to woven structure to corporeal intervention, the series sustains a dialogue between machine and body, private labor and public tension, fragility and resilience.