Definitions of ‘nature’ reveal a range of contradictory meanings. Nature often suggests that which is separate from human activity and is used to project desires seemingly unattainable, thus nature is romanticized, patronized and the passive recipient of our desires. Our backyard gardens aim to cultivate nature in our ideals while keeping 'real' nature at bay.

Donna Harraway in the Cyborg Manifesto proposes more fluid boundaries between humans, animals and machines instead of defining them as oppositional or binary positions. She suggests: "We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short we are Cyborg” and "The Cyborg myth subverts myriad organic wholes, in short, the certainty of what counts as nature - as a source of insight and promise of innocence - is undermined, probably fatally.” (from the Cyborg Manifesto).

Computers and weaving have also been connected in Sadie Plant's essay: 'The Future Loom: Weaving Women and Cybernetics' and her book ‘Zeros and Ones’, which discuss weaving as a digital processing of data. Weaving, of course, is, and always has been a digital process.

Cyborg Descending Staircase,1999, handwoven Jacquard weaving (Flowers and Leaves #7)