Loom No. 7

About the work

A loom is a machine for making structure out of thread — warp and weft, the horizontal and vertical grid that textile depends on. Nasernia takes that logic into calligraphy: letterforms that interlace like threads, building a surface that is simultaneously text and textile, pattern and potential meaning, or something that refuses to be only one of those things. The medium matters here. Acrylic on wood canvas with an exposed wooden stretcher means the structure usually hidden behind the work is visible — the frame, the armature, the system. Nasernia does the same thing with calligraphy: he shows the rules, the underlying grid, and then takes it apart. What you see is both the loom and the weaving. The infrastructure of meaning and the point at which meaning stops.