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Stroll while you scroll up and down three floors of digitally woven blue screen.
“With computer-based media, the visual is built through lines of code, programming and directives being written out line by line. Tapestries are similarly built, with one line of code equalling a single thread: the textile and its image come together as the code is amassed.”
– Allyce Wood
For Semi Set Vertical Blue, Allyce Wood created a twenty-foot long tapestry inspired by the infinite capacity of the internet. Like building a website, weaving a tapestry allows the designer freedom to continue an image or idea beyond the limits of a page.
Allyce sourced generic photographs of items like coils, chicken eggs, and golden rings. These symbols were then simplified and arranged like clip-art, stamped across the surface, and layered amongst her own marks. After compiling these new icons into a single design, she worked with an industrial textile factory in western Norway to weave the final work on a digital Jacquard loom. Through this process, she created a visible connection between machine-made and hand-made histories.
Allyce Wood creates installations, art objects, and publications. Her work has been shown in the USA, UK, and Scandinavia, at institutions such as the Museum of Northwest Art, Henry Art Gallery, SOIL Gallery. In 2014 she was the recipient of the CityArtist Award granted by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and the GAP grant by Artist Trust. Allyce has lived and worked in Oslo, Norway since 2015.
