Untitled, 2025
54 x 152”
Jacquard woven, cotton, rayon
Often, the sense of safety is rooted in the memory of physical closeness — an embrace, the familiarity of shared space, the experience of being held. At a distance, however, these recollections become increasingly indistinct, taking on a blurred and fragmented quality.
Using custom software, both archival and original photographs were pixelated, with time functioning as a metric to determine the spatial intervals between pixels. These nearly obliterated images were subsequently translated onto a Jacquard loom, further fragmenting their already reduced forms. The Jacquard loom, historically regarded as one of the earliest computational devices, operates as a precursor to binary systems. In this translation, the textile becomes a site of distortion, mirroring the ways in which memory itself is altered over time and distance.
Co-created with photographer Anant Saraf