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We had been cutting pieces of fabric of different colors but the first thing our visiting artist, Suzanne, did was to paint the fabric.
Hand embroidery was combined with digital embroidery creating complex layered textures.
Suzanne worked with students challenging them to use designs that they had already coded in new ways.
They stitched with various colors on the colored fabric, considering the moods of the colors and combinations of textures.
The exact same coded designs looked completely different depending on the colors of the threads.
Students worked during classtime but were also welcome to drop in anytime to work on projects.
There were always surprises as students taught Suzanne how to solve coding challenges.
She started conversations about storytelling and meaning in art while students dropped in to paint the fabric.
It was mesmerizing to run the code on the computer and see how the machine stitched.
We started thinking more about stitch length and how it expressed the pattern in different ways.
Suzanne started us looking at the backs of the embroideries and noticing the tensions in the threads.
It is always magical to compare the embroidery to the design and the code. The embroidery becomes a type of haptic pseudocode.
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