The interest for making “Cross-stitch” emerged from wanting to connect traditional pre-computerized graphics with modern computers. There’s a lack of soul in the uniformity of modern technological products that once were hand crafted. Questions that lead this project was: Why the picture-perfect iPhone photography is so desenstized? And why have there not been considerations how a medieval person might want to use tools on the computer? Following these questions, the team chose to make a website and animation tool that tries to mimic a cross-stitch pattern that is very well connected to this idea of pixels as a grammar for digital images as well as the craft done by specialized practitioners for many centuries. The horse on the website looks like a horse, but it required a lot of patience getting the horse to look like a horse. This felt like maybe this is what it is like to thread and then have to unravel and restart the whole piece over again.
