With every thread she wove…

The series of portraits With every thread she wove… (2023) depicts fictionalized versions of my grandmother who maintained a writing practice throughout her life while working as a weaver. On the basis of her writings they were produced with the help of an AI-based text-to-image-generator and woven on a programmable Jacquard loom, an early ancestor of contemporary computers. The relations between textile and text, weaving and programming which become apparent in these works are all tied together by a history of gendered, predominantly female labour.