digital textile design – Sticks-a-GoGo

Mobile Photography is the future of the art form. Discrete intimate and always accessible to capture a moment. – David S. McNamara

Photographs are said to preserve a moment in time, chronicle a piece of history, and refer to the ephemeral. Does the act of photo manipulation rewrite the history documented in the original photograph? I don’t use photos as a memory aid, but as a way to manipulate color, patterns and shape. I decided to co-mingle technology with textiles producing sticks-a-gogo Art Cloth.

For the last two years, I’ve produced images for surface design on fabric. Below are two examples, showing the original image and the resulting surface element.