Light Cloth

LIGHT CLOTH is a practice based research project which explores interactions between hand woven textiles and projected, manipulated light. The research is currently developing into a form of installation involving animated abstract sequences, digitally projected onto woven textile lengths. Materials, compositions, colours and structures are evolving in response to the light - and vice versa – so both components are reciprocal and interdependent.

The research seeks to extend the boundaries of hand woven textiles through the development of integrated textile-light installations. The project challenges and re-presents notions and traditions of craft practice by investigating the synthesis of hand woven textiles with technology. By exploring the viability of engineering and manipulating both the textile and the lighting components, the proposal centres on the creation of a unique symbiosis, where each component is transformed in the final presentation. Key aims of the project centre on developing a distinctive aesthetic and on investigating relationships of colour within pigment and light and in dynamically presenting the interaction between them.