One side (front/back) of the piece.
Second side (front/back) of the piece.
Double-weave structure woven with two wefts: light purple and medium grey 2/8 cotton. This is the first piece in a series translating poor-quality video screenshots into abstract weavings. The text is taken in fragments from Hito Steyerl's essay, In Defense of the Poor Image.
"a copy in motion. [...] quality is bad, its resolution substandard. [...] a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, copied and pasted into other channels of distribution."
"a copy in motion. [...] quality is bad, its resolution substandard. [...] a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, copied and pasted into other channels of distribution."
Detail one side.
Detail second side (text).
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