Woven Architecture, 2019, dimensions variable, ribbon and video as installed in The State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia. Site 1 of 2.

Woven Architecture, 2019, dimensions variable, ribbon and video as installed in The State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia. Site 2 of 2.

Woven Architecture is a site specific weaving in two sites within the State Silk Museum. The weaving is made of ribbon and is made of and on the architecture of the site.

By using ribbon, the weaving process can be off loom. The architecture is the structure holding the fabric. The satin ribbon coloured black, white and off white is woven into variations of the sateen weave. Both the satin weave as ribbon and the sateen weave as architecture have long floating lengths which are highly reflective, shiny or luxurious. The woven surface perform as  a photonic device embedded in the architecture of the State Silk Museum. As the viewer changes their angle of viewing, the conditions such as time of day and type of lighting the work appears to change colour and tone.

 Both the satin and the sateen weaves when they are notated as weaving patterns can be likened to forms of data visualisation where the data consists of determining the classic 0 or 1 of computer programming by showing whether each thread is behind or in front of the other at any point in the fabric. When these forms of data visualisation are overlaid with another form of visualisation through the high contrast colours of black, white and off white, discrepancies, errors and the unexpected become evident. The data is remade by the mode of its visualisation and by the errors in that visualisation..