unit 01_methods of iterations ☆

For this unit I had to choose a tool or medium I’m not experienced with, copy someone else’s project made with it, and use the process to find a critical question I could develop through iteration. I chose cross-stitch, because it’s a slow, structured, hand-made process that works a lot like a pixel grid, and I…

My enquiry from Draft 1 was: How does translating an image through different grid-based systems change the way its visual information is represented and perceived? To test it, I photographed a fence and kept it as a constant source image. I then translated it through digital grids (pixels, halftone, ASCII, spreadsheet cells), physical processes (stamping, weaving,…

I started with digital systems because they were the closest to the cross-stitch: each one breaks the fence into repeated units, whether pixels, halftone dots, characters or spreadsheet cells. In a digital grid the translation follows rules, so I could change one variable at a time and see what survived. I began by reducing resolution,…

Digital grids degrade an image by rule, but my cross-stitch showed me that making by hand introduces variation I can’t fully control. I moved into physical materials to test that directly. I rebuilt the fence with stamped letters, wove strips of the photograph and its ASCII version together, transferred fragments with tape, cut away pixel-like…