The media I work in is most traditionally found in hobbyist culture. From needle arts to custom electronics and audio, it is all rooted in open source/sharing folk communities such as knitting circles, craft groups, do-it-yourself electronics kits, and "how-to" homepages.
While my materials find their roots in these traditional areas, my attachment to their origin is light-footed. I manipulate crafts as hacker would code, freely cutting and pasting disparate elements for my own purposes.
I use grid based needle arts as a vehicle for the realization of intangible digital ephemera; making icons, symbols and code palpable. The thought of three dimensional pixels is inherently fictitious and carries an element of fantasy. I am interested in the idea of a hidden dimension where common computing symbols are mystic objects. Where one can walk around inside a web page, and hackers become spiritual guardians. The environments I create with these objects are a space for the vernacular of two seemingly different cultures (crafts and computers) to rub up against each other and create a new culture/tribe with psychedelic/spiritual depth. At times the reference to computer culture becomes abstract or disappears. In these moments the work deals exclusively with the fictitious culture that is created, and the personal computer becomes an abstract metaphor.
I live and work in Providence, RI.
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