Camille Ann Brewer

The textiles I create explore architecture in space through linear elements, which are woven as cloth or nets built through a variety of calculations to create rich, complex patterns. The construction of calculations to create woven forms is an exciting view of contemporary ‘digital” thinking. I investigate how textile construction intersects with spatial planning, symbolism, coding and composition making.

Weaving looms are the first digital machines in that the cloth produced by the technology is formulated using the same thought process to calculate pixels, design using CAD technology, or build music composition.

The connections between these desperate practices are as surprising as they are fascinating, and are of the core subject of my practice. Finding ancient principles of woven patterns embedded in the very notion of space, computation, and sound, provides a voice for my woven work in a unifying technical language.