On The Fringes', is a project fully-funded by Creative Scotland in conjunction with Artist in Residence Programme at The Glasgow School of Art. I have hand-woven a body of work in form of tapestries on a TC2 digital jacquard loom as part of my ongoing research into digital woven textile as a medium.

The project explores the themes of migration and the history of my native region of Slovenia on the Austrian, Croatian, and Hungarian borders.

I have reimagined historical political maps through my lens as a working-class migrant of Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian, and Romani descent, now resident in Scotland. The complex ethnic heritage of my family, as well as the region's multiple border changes over the past centuries, has been, at times, disorienting on a personal level.

Conveyed through a woven tapestry, this project represents an experimental reinterpretation of maps, historical photographs, and botanical illustrations as a way of reclaiming a previously colonised space in the Central and Eastern European context - In the hope of challenging the arbitrary nature of politically determined borders, I reimagine how maps and diagrams could become more fluid when motivated by more inclusive thinking and planning.

The tapestry project captures a personal moment of contemplation on these territories through image formation. I translate these images into codes, woven structures, and materials - journeying from a digital to an analogue space.

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