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Fabric of Time
Installation making participants feel connected to others across time.
Fabric of Time is my final thesis project at ITP. I come from a family of silk saree designers and weavers in Kanchipuram, India.
What are the traces people leave across time?
I have been pursuing this question in my art practice as far back as I can remember. What do we leave for the future? What do we learn from the past and build off of? I have been creating experiences where we leave a trace to the future and we interact with a trace from the past.
Documentation
Concept
In this experience, the participant comes and sits in front of the piece. They can use the magnifying glasses, which have been placed as signifiers and for accessibility purposes, to see through the holes of the jacquard cards and find the faces of all the people who have come to this piece before them. When the participant weaves a line on the loom in front of them, they leave a physical trace of themselves. This act of weaving triggers the camera to take a picture of them and add to the display behind the cards, leaving a digital trace of them as well. When they are done, the cards rotate one step just as they would in a real handloom for each line of weave.
Steps 1 - 4 below show the journey.
Step 1 - Participant enters the room and a spotlight is on the jacquard cards
Step 2 - After they sit, a display behind the cards wakes up.
Step 3 - They are shown faces of all the people who came to the experience before them through the cards.
Step 4 - They weave a line on the loom and their face goes into the piece as well.
Timelapse
15 seconds
15 seconds
Presentation
12 minutes
(only if you want to know my personality when I work and if these 12 minutes don’t count toward the 5 minutes max allotted to my application)
12 minutes
(only if you want to know my personality when I work and if these 12 minutes don’t count toward the 5 minutes max allotted to my application)
Traces
They leave a physical trace with the one-line weave and contribute to the fabric, and leave a digital trace by leaving their face for the future.
Jacquard memory
Weaving discarded jacquard cards into a new fabric.
Jacquard cards are usually discarded after use, even though they shape sarees that are passed down for generations. In my family, we still have one from my mother’s great-grandmother. This project is an ongoing exploration into restoring value to the materials behind tradition.
As a first step, during my time at Electronic Textile Camp, I weaved discarded jacquard cards directly into fabric, letting the tool become part of the cloth. This gesture repositions the card as both medium and message, asking us to see labor, memory, and material as inseparable.
As a first step, during my time at Electronic Textile Camp, I weaved discarded jacquard cards directly into fabric, letting the tool become part of the cloth. This gesture repositions the card as both medium and message, asking us to see labor, memory, and material as inseparable.
Chase & Knit Clocks
Telling time differently. More details below.
Chase
A clock that is afraid to cross midnight and move to the next day.
Chase is a kinetic clock that captures the paradox of time’s progression and our personal experience of “almost” crossing into a new day. The clock’s minute hand approaches midnight but resets at 11:59 as the clock face rotates back to 11:29. This continuous loop embodies an endless anticipation, evoking the feeling of being on the verge of something new yet perpetually held back. Drawing from the artist’s experiences across multiple time zones, Chase I reflects time as both a shared construct and an individual experience, inviting viewers to question their relationship with change, progress, and the familiar.
The Clock
The clock is a modified found object, powered by a stepper motor and controlled by an Arduino microcontroller. At 11:59, the motor rotates the clock face 90 degrees, returning the hour hand to 11:29 in a carefully orchestrated cycle. This design maintains a constant state of “almost arriving,” using programmed interruptions to engage viewers in a reflection on time’s layered nature.
Knit Clock
A swatch clock that unravels.
I started exploring swatches and textiles more in 2024 during my time at Electronic Textile Camp, and combined my knit swatch to make my first fabric clock.
Participants are encouraged to pull the loose thread and unravel the fabric, leaving their mark in time and showing the extent of their control over time.
Participants are encouraged to pull the loose thread and unravel the fabric, leaving their mark in time and showing the extent of their control over time.
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