YUKTI V. AGARWAL
(b. 2000)
I Miss You (Mom, Dad), 2025
54 x 152”
Jacquard woven, cotton, rayon
Project funded by RISD Textiles
Yukti and Anant keep thinking about their parents — 12,000 kilometers away. Their sense of safety comes from the warmth of an embrace, the feeling of snuggling under a blanket, of being held. But at this distance, those memories feel blurred, pixelated, grainy. Using custom software Anant developed, archival and original photographs were pixelated, with time acting as the metric for the space between pixels. The nearly obliterated images were then translated onto a Jacquard loom, which further fragmented the already sparse forms. Jacquard looms were among the first machines to be called “computers” — the very predecessors of binary code. A textile distorts, just as our most memories do.
Co-created with photographer Anant Saraf