Sebastien Robinson

represents an intersection between practices of image-making and consuming, past and present. Once, images were physical exclusives, limited to their materiality. Today, most images live as a sequence of 0s and 1s, shared via end-to-end encryption, making electronic devices our compulsory visual translators; our binary reading glasses. In the work, 100 meters of cotton band is woven using a non-repeating pattern created with Inductive Rotation (weaving pattern à la Hofstetterkurt), generating an encoded canvas awaiting a private cyanotype image. Un-woven, re-woven in plain weave, the true image is hidden from view, ready to be restored if the original pattern-cypher is known.