Exit Grid, 2022
hand-dyed wool, cotton yarn
52 x 41 inches
72 x 41 inches
photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
photo credit: Ian Byers-Gamber
Exit Grid Paper, 2023
paper yarn, cotton yarn
64 x 41 inches
photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
photo credit: Ian Byers-Gamber
In both works, black dead pixels dissolve the boundaries of the computerized grid in handwoven noise. Here, works demonstrate anti-borders that unravel lines and edges to become borderless and cannot resolve into measurable edges.
Exit Grid uses hand-dyed wool in a synthetic pixelated (RGB) palette that blends into one another, crossing each grid line, disintegrating defined color boundaries, and overtaking the grid entirely.
Exit Grid Paper draws on the material of early computing, such as logbooks, punchcards, and graph paper. Unwoven paper loops are revealed behind large black glitches that break up the grid lines.