Fitting the Pattern
Cutting through memories, pinning down facts, stitching fabrications, unpicking the past - an interactive, animated memoir, exploring aspects of my relationship with my dressmaking mother.
Here's a video screen recording of Fitting the Pattern. I created the original work in Flash but the web has discontinued support for Flash.
Video of a talk about Fitting the Pattern
I gave this talk remotely as part of the Digital Textiles panel at NonfictioNOW, a conference on literary nonfiction, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, in 2018.
Publications, exhibitions & performances
Some of the places where Fitting the Pattern has been published, exhibited or performed:
- The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Two
- 'A Toast to the Flash Generation', live Zoom performance, hosted by Electronic Literature Lab, ELO, 2020
- 'Dyscorpia' exhibition, Enterprise Square Galleries, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2019
- 'Digital Textiles', NonfictioNOW conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2018
- 'La paraula pixelada. La literatura a l'era digital' (Pixilated Words. Literature in the digital age) exhibition at Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain, 2016
- Language and the Interface: An Exhibition, Coimbra, Portugal, 2015
- Live performance at The Museum of Printed Textiles in association with Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France, 2014
- Digital Fictions: Can stories help young women think differently about themselves?, 2013
- 'The Writer's Group Exposed!', Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe, Yorkshire, UK, 2010
- Studies in the Maternal, Volume 1 - Issue 2 - 2009
- Electronic Literature in Europe 2008 (conference), Bergen, Norway
- 'The Line of Influence' at Binarykatwalk
- Creative Writing and New Media MA Showcase at the IOCT Salon, Leicester, UK, 2008