Laurie Frick

Wool Felt

Laurie Frick builds patterns by hand in wool, leather, and paint assembled piece by piece into geometric grids. The patterns are imagined data: bloodwork and biomarkers, sleep, appetite, the shape of a day -- what the algorithm will soon know about each of us, composed before it exists. The work proposes a different way to face relentless surveillance. Where data capture is endless, these grids are slow, physical, and organic. The algorithm's portrait remade at human scale. Color and geometry carry what raw numbers cannot, the experience of a measured life: the steady pulse of routine, the lurch where something broke, the density of a crowded week, the thin stretch of a bad month. Against the fatigue and anxiety of a hyper-tracked society, the patterns offer a new kind of self-representation for the algorithmic age.