‘webring heirloom’ combines the fibre tradition of quilting, a medium popular with making baby blankets and other handmade keepsakes, with the desire to preserve an internet of yesteryear.

Depicting archaic internet pages from my childhood memories; educational information about horses, kid-oriented spaces focused on playing games and raising pets, along with the dregs of the 2000s internet, “screamers” and gore-filled image hosting sites; the work plays with the disjointed nature of an older netscape.

The internet has changed drastically in the twenty-odd years since I began to explore it and in that time plenty has been lost. Whether it be the discontinuation of Flash player or someone just couldn’t be bothered to continue hosting a site, pieces of my childhood have gotten lost to cyberspace. By capturing them in fibre I wonder if these ones might last a little longer.

Created as a part of the 2026 Contextural Summer Residency

Exhibited as part of AUArts and Contextural’s 2026 Residency Show - “Saturated”