The Genetics of Code: From Frozen Windows to Binary Logic

I started “writing code” long before it became mainstream. My school of programming was 45 years at the weaving loom. To me, it was never just about fabric; it was about the logical interlacing of thoughts and elements.

Binary Logic and Patterns from the Frost

As a young weaver, I didn’t always follow the “canons.” I used to search for patterns everywhere: on building facades, on plastic bags, even in the rhythm of the city. I once read that old masters took their ornaments “from the frost,” looking at frozen windowpanes. Back then, it sounded like a myth.

But eventually, the most amazing algorithms began to emerge for me in exactly that way—as if from those winter drawings on glass. It was the pure geometry of nature that I longed to translate onto the canvas. Over the years, as my internal “processor” learned to handle billions of interlacings, patterns began to appear on their own as soon as I closed my eyes. This is the highest form of coding—when the algorithm is born from pure inspiration.

“White-on-white”: recreating frost patterns through texture and light.

Memory Snapshot: The Spring of 2010

Every work I create is a personal archive. One of my favorite pieces was conceived in the early spring of 2010, just as the first sun began to warm the earth. Even now, when I look at that pattern, I don’t just see the fabric—I can feel the spicy scent of waking nature. It is a “record” of a feeling, a digital-like snapshot preserved in thread for centuries.

Spring 2010”: A woven archive of warmth, scent, and first sunlight.

Weaving taught me to see deep logic and beauty in the simplest things. It is an endless dialogue between the past and the future, between nature and technology, encoded in every single knot.

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