In fact, nothing is black & white at all, but colour is often perceived in relation to what is next to it--colour IS relative to an extent, and Jacquard weaving makes use of the human eye to blend the pixels/threads of an image in the mind to produce a whole image-based cloth - similar to the way single cells come together to produce a whole piece of tissue. Both are materialized on matrices. I'm playing with the relationship between the French words 'tissu' (cloth/ tissue) and 'tissage' (weaving) in my methodology. Next week, I'll be working on the third sample cloth, which I hope will get this image closer to the end result I'm looking for. Once I've accomplished that, I'll move back to doing a double-sided image-based cloth, with osteosarcoma micrographs on the back side of the cloth - so, girls on one side, microscopic imagery of them on the other. Remember, Sonya and Osanna below represent the two young ladies whom bone cancer cells were taken from for lab use, back in the 60s and 70s (the original photo I'm working from was taken in 1964). These girls are tall. Osteosarcoma occurs most often in pre- and pubescent girls who go through a rapid growth spurt, becoming very long-legged very quickly, leading to mutation in the bone cells of the shins (typically). The osteosarcomas I'm working with came from two pubescent girls' shin bones. I very much enjoy the appearance of glitch in the first sample on the right, in terms of glitch = mutation.
