Haphazard

Dyeing to Meet Digital explores the foundation of all digital computing, binary code, as both a visual language and an artistic symbol. Floating across the surface, the movement of strings of ones and zeros evokes the unseen logic driving AI, while the artwork is graced with uniform pixel-like blocks that represent the basic building units of digital imagery. Rather than mimicking the vast color spectrum of a machine, this whole cloth, hand-dyed piece reflects how a human might interpret AI's visual world—structured, symbolic, and layered with meaning. It offers a response to artificial intelligence, honoring its origins while reimagining its aesthetic through human eyes and hands.My art explores how we process the daily flood of visual information in our busy lives. I use discarded clothing and other reclaimed textiles, both for environmental reasons and because their patterns and marks are part of the data that we encounter and must make sense of every day. In Haphazard, I started with meaningful marks such as letters and arrows, just as generative AI relies on existing data. Dividing and recombining these marks in the quilt-making process allows me to observe how they both lose and gain meaning, exploring what a conscious human maker adds to artwork.