2025, serigraph, hand weaving, blind embossing

A study in divergence—of patterns that repeat, fracture, and radiate across woven and printed surfaces. Through hand weaving and printmaking, the work explores how structure embodies both order and disruption, transforming repetition into an act of resistance rather than a means of resolution.

At the center of this inquiry is the pixelated pomegranate: an ancient symbol rendered as a digital abstraction, fragmented and repeated across materials. Once a fruit of mythology and consequence linked to thresholds, and transformation, it becomes a modular code, a point of departure from which patterns radiate, mutate, and diverge. Its form is stripped to minimal geometry, then reassembled through texture, and process.

The pixel operates as a conceptual thread across media: a building block, a rupture, a language. Patterns emerge and collapse, diverge from the source image, or shift through scale and material logic. The grid is stretched and disrupted, no longer a framework of control but a field of instability. Ornament becomes counter-code: not decorative, but structural, signaling shifts in perception and meaning.

Layered data sets—thicknesses of yarn, densities of ink, dual weave structures, unexpected materials—move between convergence and contradiction. These materials hold tension: between body and machine, past and present, legibility and distortion. Weaving and printmaking become parallel systems of translation, where fidelity is secondary to sensation, and repetition is a form of rupture.

Slowness, tactility, and labour are embedded in every surface. Repeated fragments are abstracted, glitched, and multiplied to invite close attention. What initially appears ordered may dissolve into dissonance. The pixel, the pomegranate, the pattern: all become unstable sites of meaning.

This is a practice of seeing and not seeing, of finding clarity in divergence. A gesture toward decolonizing space-time through fractured structures and interrupted rhythms. An invitation to stay with the fragment, to read beyond the surface, and to consider how systems can be both patterned and broken, radiant and ruptured.

October 3–November 8, 2025

Artcite Inc.

Windsor, Ontario

Supported by Superframe Framing Fund

Amanda Wood

Amanda Wood