MURRAY
GIBSON
TAPESTRY

Aleph
Aleph, 1989
Wool and silk, 160 x 152 cm

Aleph was woven for GFX Computer Productions in Calgary, Alberta. In the 1980s computer graphic design was a new and somewhat specialized field. The basic concept for this tapestry was the historical development of the letter "A": from the Egyptian hieroglyph, Aleph - the bull, to the binary code for the letter - |0|0. The background imagery refers to a computer chip.