The designs for these blankets began with manual drawing on graph paper by hand, before replicating and reducing the drawings digitally through over 16000 replications. As in other works, the process sought to push digital replication to its limits – following a curiosity as to at what point the resulting image may appear as a solid block of colour or where the technology reached its limits of visual data replication. The second stage of the work involved collaboration with a craftsperson with traditional expertise in weaving using the Jacquard loom. The complex computer generated designs were then translated, over a year, into designs for the loom. In this work I was interested in the use of non-traditional digital processes collaborating with traditional, craft processes. The resulting blankets combine the two, and exist as both design products and works of art in their own right. Each design is unique, as within the process human errors and glitches were made, which were retained and incorporated into the weavings. Each retains a unique aura, generated by error, blurring boundaries between art and craft, the conceptual, aesthetic and functional.
