Woven Vibration

Woven Vibration translates acoustic phenomena into tactile textile structures, asking what it means to make the invisible permanent and the ephemeral tangible.

The work unfolds across four interconnected series. Reflection and Refraction opens the investigation: Transverse and Ripples transform longitudinal and transverse wave patterns into hand-molded fabrics using reflective thread, recycled cotton, wool, alpaca, and mohair. These materials carry prior life forward and respond dynamically to light. Structured Textures deepens this through Homophony and Polyphony, large-scale handloom pieces in wool, linen, and copper wire that translate single-melody and multi-layered sound progressions into double and triple woven structures. At 92 inches wide and 70 inches tall respectively, these pieces are not objects to look at but environments to move through and feel. Confluent Patterns moves into digital territory. The Merge series begins with Chladni figures, acoustic wave patterns created by resonating particles on a surface, digitally layered across multiple frequencies and realized through the TC2 Jacquard loom in cotton warp and black copper wire. Mathematical sound becomes something you can hold.

Across all four series, the practice engages material intelligence: not imposing design onto fiber, but expanding what each material already knows how to do. Recycled fibers carry history into new structures. Copper wire pushes woven form into dimensional, conductive territory. The TC2 bridges algorithmic precision and material contingency.

Woven Vibration positions craft as the careful extension of what already exists, in physics, in fiber, in tradition. It is a regenerative practice grounded in attention: to frequency, to structure, to the intelligence already present in the materials themselves, and to the human body that encounters them.