Serveillance is inspired by the asymmetrical and colourful makeup used by activists in the Taiwan independence movement to thwart facial recognition technology. Concerned about the eroding privacy resulting from technological surveillance, a movement has emerged where technology and design converge to discover the most creative ways to hack the digital world from reality.
This textile investigation unveils a novel approach to create prints inspired by surveillance-evading patterns, employing a zero-waste and enjoyable process. I work with second-hand clothes and fabric strips that are laser-cut, generating large fabric puzzles to mix and match with many others. As a modern reinterpretation of patchwork, fabric is created using interlining and applied to geometric pattern making to minimize fabric wastage.
