The two
curtains I’m exhibiting in the Digital Encounters exhibition are titled ‘Insider
information’ and ‘Unheeded warning’. They both incorporate stitched QR codes
that can be read with smart phones to reveal warning messages. The QR code on Insider information says
‘Escape while you can’ and combined with the words ‘Help me’ stitched in human
hair suggests the homely is becoming unhomely. The QR code on Unheeded warning
says ‘I warned you’ and is combined with a tear in the curtain suggesting all
is not as it should be. I developed the idea of using QR codes when I was
looking for a way of coding information in a decorative way. The aim was to hide the information
in plain view so that it could easily be overlooked. Previously I had used lettering hidden within
lace patterns but I found that I could include more information within the QR
code. I tried making them with bobbin lace but found that cross stitch on even
weave canvas was more accurate and therefore easier for the smart phone to
detect. The two curtains form a domestic narrative and the viewer is left to
piece together the clues to discover the hidden story.
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