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I find “home” in many instances - experiences, interactions, jokes, sounds, smells, songs. Throughout my design and reflection process, I delved deeper. My exploration pivoted from representing the tangible with the intangible, things that make me feel at home with some "resonance" that has allowed me to feel at home and participate in the act of making a “home”, the act of becoming. This textile exploration is in effect a manifestation of this frequency, a materialization of existence through data, sound, and weaving. It's also an exercise in connection and loneliness, a microcosm of the current human experience with the advent of AI and the generational immigrant experience. In essence, this "frequency" is also a gratitude for the freedom and sentiments I’ve now been offered to explore what my own “home” is vs. what it used to be for Hispanic women in my family, culture and, truly, women at large.

In this work, I explore my idea of “home” by encoding inter-generational reflections into a woven structure where binary data determines the weave pattern into a textile touch and touch-less electronic instrument (theremin).