A series of diptychs based on antonyms, the Binary Weavings are textile tablets encoded with linguistic data.

For our modern Roman alphabet, binary code is an 8-bit string of zeros and ones, combined in particular orders to generate letters which are legible to computing systems. In thinking about woven textiles as the original binary space of overs and unders, and thus looms as the original computers, I created a design language by translating binary code into squares, or pixels, using the color binary of black and white.

Each woven panel focuses on one word, put into repeat, generating a large surface of starkly contrasting pattern. Together with its antonymic counterpart, the weavings are a dialectic actualization, two opposing truths able to be held simultaneously.

Shown are the diptych grouping, “Expansive” and “Contained.”

Each measures approximately 40 x 60 inches and are made with bamboo fibers and found plastic filament