Thanks to a Culture Moves Europe grant, I had the opportunity to undertake an artist residency at Lottozero (Prato, Italy). Working with old family photographs and memorabilia, I explored digital weaving on a TC2 loom and handweaving on a 16-shaft loom. I also experimented with cyanotype on fabric for the first time.

My research focused on translating photographic imagery—including portraits and textile patterns depicted in the photographs—into woven and printed forms. I was particularly interested in how textile processes could transform these images and generate new meanings through construction, distortion, transparency, and unravelling.