Black Square (2024), knitted yarn, 79 x 79cm 

Malevich’s Black Square (1913) defined a new age of art, one that was radically removed from depicting reality and emphasised colour and shape as pure feeling. Black Square absurdly aligns QR codes with these grand re-definitions. Positioning the over-saturated, highly consumerism-driven QR code as spiritual or sublime, pokes at tech-mysticism and heroism. The alignment of the QR code with pure representation of reality questions what the definition of reality and representation are in our current age.

Portal (2024), Knitted yarn, 45 x 52 cm

Celebrating the visual elements of QR codes, Portal defines QR codes as an immediate trigger for form shifting. Active presence online forces a disconnect from presence in the physical realm. By interfacing with a QR code we enter our split form. Generated digitally, QR codes are only useful in the physical world; they are trapped in their own multiplicity.

doubled (2024), Crocheted yarn, webcam, tripod, computer, streaming software, streaming platform, 78 x 78 cm

Watched over by a live-stream webcam, doubled facilitates its own fracturing beyond the physical. Linked to an unlisted live stream only accessible by scanning the work, doubled is thus split across mediums: the object, and the relational performance on the stream. This questions what the parameters of the self are beyond the physical, what other forms do we exist in? Where else are we taking up space?

Inside looking out/stretchedThin (2024), Knitted yarn, 45 cm x 45 cm

Hand knitted and crocheted, these works are imbued with textile crafts’ language of care. Over-investing this care in saturated digital forms attempts to challenge immediacy and emphasise the material and physical as the most potent connection. Knit backwards and wrong side out, Inside looking out/stretchedThin looks more closely at the carried threads and connective tissue of the knitted QR code, emphasising this focus on material and physical connection. The data stored is a web page with this didactic.

Untitled Experience (2024), Crocheted yarn, aluminium frame, web-form, 240 x 125 x 68 cm

Untitled Experience heightens awareness of the behaviour patterns and space shifts that we undertake hundreds of times a day. The web-form facilitates an interaction with a QR code that sits just slightly outside of the familiar, diverting expectation of further engagement through the online space, Untitled Experience immediately redirects focus back to the physical world.