Acid Weave—Artwork

Acid Weave began with questions about belonging.

After several years travelling and working in Europe, and moving back and forth between Europe and Australia, my sense of where I belonged had become less certain. What makes somewhere home? Is it where we live, where we were born, or somewhere we come to feel we belong? And what happens when we find ourselves moving between places?

I became interested in the objects we take with us—the things we treasure because they carry memory and familiarity, helping us create a sense of home wherever we find ourselves.

The nomadic weavers of Central Asia became a point of departure. The idea of weaving objects that travelled with them, connecting making, home and a way of life, led me to consider what might happen if those traditions were shifted into the digital realm.

In Acid Weave, the structure and language of weaving became the starting point for a series of digitally constructed rugs and textile samples. Colour, repetition and distortion pushed the familiar grid into something more vivid and unstable—part textile, part image, part imagined surface.

The work moves between old and new, physical and digital, familiarity and displacement.

Acid Weave became a way of thinking about home not simply as a place, but as something we construct from memory, experience and the things we carry with us.