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TEXERE: The Shape of Loss is a Tapestry is an installation of digital memorial tapestries which honor different losses in our lives. Suspended in front of you is one glowing rectangular panel against a black wall. The panel is nearly a foot and half wide and five feet tall or half a meter wide by one and a half meters high. This digital tapestry is composed of strips of image and text – threads of various thicknesses which are all interwoven with each other. The threads containing images show a variety of colors – some dark and some bright – as well as a variety of textures – some smooth and some rippling. All of the images here come from photographs people have uploaded to this tapestry using the web platform texere.space (Spelled texere.space) The threads containing text have also been woven into this tapestry in the same way. The words are not legible in any typical way but appear as clusters of consonants and vowels throughout the weaving, suggesting the sound of an utterance which might arise from the loss this tapestry honors, which is the loss of a sense of home.