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Julie Anand & Damon Sauer
Interlace
Shredded and handwoven archival inkjet prints, acrylic, resin
34" x 29"
Julie Anand & Damon Sauer turn meticulously crafted prints into
'photographic material' by way of an office document shredder.
They then weave the vertical and horizontal strips together by hand.
The smallest unit of the pattern, the intersection, inspires our imagery.
Between explores sites of convergence—between makers,
between sea and sky, between nations, between day and night.
This process entwines the labor of two makers,
each of the thousands of intersections reinforcing the collaborative relationship.
Hand-woven images are sealed in resin, unifying the large surface seen at a distance,
while each object reveals its history of labor in details observed up close.
The woven pattern refers back to the underpinning marriage of
analog and digital technologies of the images' production.
Square information areas—woven picture elements like pixels—
are made irregular, human, in our hands.
We recall that Henry Fox Talbot once exhibited his photogenic drawings
beside the earliest computer, a machine based on a punch-card loom.
Here the artists enact a contemporary confluence of weaving, computing, and photographing.
Boundaries such as the one between the sea and the sky
are pragmatic conventions reinforced by language.
In this perspective, Anand and Sauer work toward a softening of borders and
toward the possibility of seeing two things at once.
