Moral Code employs simple sewing techniques, fibre, and basic programming to create a contemporary reimagining of traditional craft. The work questions the evolving relevance of handmaking in a technology-saturated era. Its title operates as a double entendre, referring both to the digital codes and algorithms that inform my process, and to the ethical values that guide my return to tactile, heritage-rich forms of making.

The work begins with computer-generated pixel patterns produced through numerical algorithms. I then digitally manipulate these templates to elicit specific emotional and aesthetic responses before translating them into sewn fibre works. This process bridges the digital and the tactile, challenging the impersonal nature of technology through the intimacy of craft. In doing so, the work reveals a familial connection between quilt and pixel: both are built from repeated units, structured grids, and acts of assembly.

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