My work stems from an exploration of the connections between textiles and technology on a historical, constructional, physical and conceptual background.  Textiles share historical connections to technology, its object oriented process serving as the blue print for the immaterial processing of computing.  They also share a constructional make-up that interests me more.  Knitting together codes of base-two patterns- knits and purls, zeros and ones.  Cloth provides the comfort and security of an object.  It is tangible code we can see and understand, while giving us the same comfort as our own clothing accessorizing our bodies.

Candy becomes an ideal medium to discuss that which is intangible, to represent that which does not physically exist in a form that evokes all of the senses.  Able to not just see and touch sweets but also to hear, and smell, and of course taste, which can lead to desire.  Candy in every state of its process is temporal.  Fluctuating in the threshold of temperature candy reaches it’s ideal state to harden.  Only to change again, melting down with the atmospheric influences.   And changing again with it’s desirable consumption.  It exists as a tangible cyclical process.

Tying together the processes and objects of my work is the circular looped motion that constructs our actions, desires, and movements.  The cycles of analog to digital information pulsating up and down a wave of electricity.  The obvious cycles of the body’s hunger and fulfillment intertwined with cycles of digestion.  The motion of two hands knitting a string of yarn into cloth.  The motion of our bodies interacting with machines, tensing and relaxing as we negotiate in the space between. Digital information plots points for electricity to flow through.   Textile patterns plot the construction of cloth.  While plotting points, like the grid, order is pure relationship.