My Jacquard weaving generates an abstract textile lexicon in which the loom acts as a kind of automatic writing machine. Digital imagery drawn from hand knit textiles provides the visual/textual input for this recent series of woven panels. In Lexical Fragments 1 and 2 (2019) mediated knit structure appears on the surface of the cloth as both image and texture. Ink applied to threads throughout the process reveals and/or interferes with the apprehension of row upon row of calligraphic, text-like marks. The translation from knit web to mesh of pixels, to interlaced threads in satin damask enacts a mimesis of text in textile form.
Each panel measures 184 × 65.5 cm.