The Western Heritage Museum is proud to present a new item on loan from the permanent collection of New Mexico Arts in association with the Art in Public Places Program.
Eye Dazzler draws on customary indigenous design and the use of new materials and technologies to create a trans-customary work that challenges the rigid division between the traditional and the modern. By using existing technologies, such as the Mirrix loom (a commercially available stand up loom whose design is based on the Navajo loom), the square glass bead-our pixel, QR Codes, and web-based digital video designers created an innovative "trans-customary" Din� textile. The production of the textile also utilized a software designed by Will Wilson and Josh Sarantitis and written by Greg Barton called TilePile, which is an open source software that enabled Will and Josh to create a million pixel glass mural in Tucson, AZ.