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.BMP STITCH

Developed through an investigation into hybridized methods and processes of making .BMP Stitch integrates calligraphic strokes, hybridized with the digital aesthetic of bit-mapping. The typeface is currently display only. In addition to the letter forms, numbers and punctuation, the typeface features modular ornaments that can create patterns reminiscent of traditional quilt blocks.

THE _ _ _ DOCUMENTARY

In the spring of 2023, I held The _ _ _ Workshop. Reflecting on my own experiences working with textiles, I wanted to create a space to share, make and experience the closeness and ownership working by hand provides. Developing a workshop, I hoped to introduce or continue to familiarize other designers with craftwork through textiles; so that they could introduce, reject, or implement these methodologies of making to their practice. In this workshop participants would learn embroidery stitches, which would be applied to the making of their own quilt square. As research shows that craftwork encourages a shift towards a more collaborative making process; designers would work side-by-side to develop their ideas, share materials and skills.

The workshop was memorialized in several ways. This short video became a way to share this experience, and possibly invite others to turn to embroidery or other forms of craft. A cassette camcorder was used to record half of the footage, to give the video an intimate feel, reflecting the relationship of textiles and body, hand and mind making. The clips are split between digital and camcorder recordings. The digital footage is made up of still angles which recorded the workshop from different viewpoints around the room.

This video is an exerpt.
Total Duration: 10:06 min.
Audio: “Floating Against the Night Sky” by Los Days, “Gualala” by Mac DeMarco, “363N3” by King Krule.

THE _ _ _ WORKSHOP

The workbook served as the participants guide through the workshop. Two inserts serve as a container for separate pieces of learning. The first insert explains the impetus behind the workshop, my relationship with craft as a designer and a brief history of quilts. The smallest insert of the workbook holds a manual for the two simplest stitches in embroidery, the back stitch and the running stitch. Through my research, I identified three methodologies found in quilt-making that could translate to digital design. In the center folds of the booklet, each of the methodologies are described.

Both the workbook and posters were riso-printed on vintage four-ply typewriter paper. Posters were designed for the workshop using scanned and photographed materials.

THE _ _ _ QUILT

The quilt is the phyisical manifestation of both the workshop, and the larger investigation in hybrid ways of making. The back-side of the quilt features the blocks created by the designers who participated in the workshop. The front of the quilt is made up of screen printed blocks. .BMP Stitch ornaments were used to create patterns, which were then individually printed on each tile. The approximate making time for this quilt was about 45 hours.

"In being the most personal, most myself in the expressions of my craft, the warp and weft of my life and work are joined."

-Glen Corbett Povey

HOW TO REMEMBER TOMORROW

How to Remember Tomorrow is a hand-stitched book made with vintage fabric, beads and thread. It is a distillation of a quote by Benjamin Walter, a German philospher. Each page is a visual representation of the past, present and future.

“Present ‘awakens’ from the dreams of the past but remains swollen by them. Swelling, awakening, constellation - are Benjaminian images of inter-related times.” - Svetlana Boym

November 2022.

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