My current work explores traditional textile forms, employing new digital techniques for weaving and/or printing fabric, as a means of establishing a visual dialogue addressing issues of contemporary culture. Drawing from historic associations with domesticity, comfort and home, textiles offer unique possibilities for developing content when combined with non-traditional techniques and unexpected imagery. Alois’s Wonderland The image is a photo of my mother at age three, combined with a pattern derived from Alois Alzheimer’s drawings of neurofibrillary tangles and beta amyloid plaques. This is part of a series I have been working on, called ‘Tangles’. My mother, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, was a weaver (she can no longer weave), specializing in tapestry. She also taught weaving for many years and was the person who taught me how to weave. It seems particularly appropriate to me to be exploring ideas of family, identity, memory and loss, through the medium of cloth.