A Running Pattern (Square)

A Running Pattern (Square) features a rotating loop of black-and-white string delineating a square. Driven by a motor in a four-point belt system, the twisted twine moves constantly to enact tiny animated dashes, similar to the marching ants effect of selection tools found in computer graphics programs.

By translating it from the screen to a material form on a wall, the kinetic installation actively defines an area in actual space, weaving together the digital and physical. Inspired by the inextricable links between craft practices and digital creation, in terms of pixels, zeros and ones, light and dark, warp and weft, the piece–absent of any image–acts as an isolated frame for viewers to contemplate the building blocks that underlie the structures of our world at large.

Presented at FOST Gallery as part of The Spectral Faith of Our Minor Flirtations (2023), curated by Louis Ho.