The title “Warp & Weft” references weaving generally, and more specifically a tapestry: a way to illustrate adventures or events to be remembered. The Warp & Weft: (Figure) series alludes to the front of a tapestry – the event(s), the adventure(s) brought back in photographs. The Warp & Weft: (Ground) series alludes to the back of the tapestry – the merged and more generalized echo of what is vivid in the front. -------------------------------------------
The two series taken together, the (Figure) and the (Ground), constitute a unity of how we see and process the multiple perceptions that make up our daily life; the front and the back; that which remains vivid and distinct on top of that which becomes merged and integrated.------------------------------------
The fundamental grid structure of weaving, of the loom, was given a precision, and an algorithmic repeatability with the invention of the Jaquard loom at the beginning of the 19th century – arguably the first “general purpose machine”, or computer. I adapt this weaving metaphor for the arrangements of photographs, as a way to give the notion of a relational database a visual form.
The two series taken together, the (Figure) and the (Ground), constitute a unity of how we see and process the multiple perceptions that make up our daily life; the front and the back; that which remains vivid and distinct on top of that which becomes merged and integrated.------------------------------------
The fundamental grid structure of weaving, of the loom, was given a precision, and an algorithmic repeatability with the invention of the Jaquard loom at the beginning of the 19th century – arguably the first “general purpose machine”, or computer. I adapt this weaving metaphor for the arrangements of photographs, as a way to give the notion of a relational database a visual form.
© 2011 Paul Berger