Patterns generated by a palimpsest of up to 20 digital layers containing the words TEXT and TEXTILE.
Text and textile are both related to the Latin verb texere, “to weave.” The underpinning concept of the series is to turn text back into textile. My interest in weaving as a metaphor that unites the visual with the textual goes at least as far back as the Abrash paintings. The title references Heinrich Heine’s poem “The Silesian Weavers,” in which the weavers’ labors are assimilated to the weaving of a curse upon their oppressors.
The book compiles a hundred variations.
