wired garden
For years, I considered the tangled cables surrounding my laptop a nuisance. Chargers, hard drives, headphones. They occupied an awkward space between utility and clutter.
The more I looked at them, however, the more I noticed that these accidental arrangements resembled something organic: roots, vines, branches, even lace. I became interested in whether beauty was something inherent to an object, or simply a consequence of attention and framing
The PRocess
Photograph the cable arrangement attached to my laptop.
Crop the image to a 12" × 12" field.
Convert the photograph into a high-contrast black-and-white image.
Trace the image into vector linework.
Use the vector drawing as instructions for a laser cutter.
Repeat daily.
Stitch the resulting textile fragments together.
FINAL PIECE
