GARDEN_OF_EDEN.PNG is a Jacquard-woven tapestry made from a single frame of an animated carpet. The frame was taken out of its sequence and woven, so that an image that lasted a fraction of a second now has size, weight and a surface. The animation is GARDEN_OF_EDEN.ISO, which was itself the carpet Garden of Eden set in motion. The series ends where it began, on the loom.

Because the frame was drawn pixel by pixel, it could go straight to the Jacquard loom: each pixel became a crossing of threads. Weaving and computing share a vocabulary (texture, pattern, layering, threads, net, web), and the first computers were extensions of looms. The pixel holds this connection, against the idea that carpet-making belongs to an older order, unable to connect to modern technologies. A pixelated image loses matter and gains speed; it travels lightly across borders. After my immigration I entered a third space, an in-between. One cannot just go back; you have to find a detour. Here the detour runs through the file, and the carpet returns.