Lovelace published with San Francisco Center for the Book

Launch Party Thursday, June 18, 2026 from 6-8pm

Lovelace pays tribute to 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace, who made a vast conceptual leap in anticipating our modern computer age from its early origins in mechanical calculators. The daughter of infamous bad boy poet Lord Byron, Lovelace coined the term “poetical science” to describe her synthesis of logical analysis and intuitive imagination.

Expanding from its four inch square into a faceted sculptural form, Lovelace features risograph-printed designs based on the diagrams in an 1882 manual on Jacquard weaving held at Letterform Archive. The punch card technology first invented to automate complex weaving patterns was subsequently employed by early computers to input programming—a direct lineage from textiles to artificial intelligence.

Natural Order

Lucien Liu and Rachel Phillips

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel
Opening Reception: October 17, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Exhibition: October 17 - November 29, 2026
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Lucien Liu and Rachel Phillips both spend time in the weeds, looking closely at the cacophonous cycles of natural growth pushing through the cracks of so-called civilized life. Natural Order centers on a shared motif of spiders and spiderwebs that weave literally and metaphorically through both artists’ work. Webs offer up complex metaphors: while arrestingly beautiful, their evolutionary purpose is nevertheless entrapment. Natural Order maps this tension through our natural and unnatural Northern California coastal environs.

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