8 GPS tracks, embroideries, 7" each
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8 GPS tracks, embroideries, 7" each |
GPS track May 8, 2007: from home to Capilano College, then to Cityscape and back home; later a trip downtown to the library + to shop | |
| These lines were made by tracking one day with a hand-held GPS, a Garmin e-Trex Legend or e-Trex HC Venture. This works like the pebbles or breadcrumb trail laid by Haensel and Gretel, that helped them find their way back from the woods or the string given by Ariadne to Theseus, which allowed him to find his way out of the labyrinth. The information captured by the GPS is uploaded to my computer and then translated with MacGPSPro software into graphic images displaying latitudes and longitudes and in some case altitudes. These tracks are then refined in Photoshop and later translated into software used by sewing machines and stitched by a computerized sewing machine. In all cases the technology does the physical 'making', but the body is still active and engaged in the process, performing crucial tasks like stretching fabrics, choosing thread colours, driving a car or riding a bicycle and working with the various software programs and computer interfaces. I, the human no longer act only with my body or hands, but also through various electronic appendages, or more like a cyborg.... | ||