Description

Deep frying is an internet folk process – take an image, degrade it, compress it, repeat until something strange and new emerges from the noise.

Compression Artefact asks what happens when you run that process through a soft, textile-based medium instead. The source image is a creepy void meme – a dense field of eyes lifted from a niche corner of the internet – translated pixel-by-stitch into something that sits between digital glitch and physical object. The pixelation isn’t incidental. It’s the point.

Approximately 40 hours of hand embroidery. Every stitch a deliberate act of preservation for something the internet would rather keep moving.

Exhibited at Mission Gallery, Swansea. Now available to collect direct from the studio for the first time.

One original. Framed and ready to hang.

Hand-embroidered needlepoint on canvas. Framed behind AR70 UV-resistant low-reflection art glass.

Dimensions: 395mm x 385mm (framed)