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Jovencio de la Paz, Bionumeric Organisms 2.0, 2021, handwoven Thread Controller 2 textile and canvas, 36 x 24".
In Legacy Russell’s 2020 book, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, the author writes that “errors, ever unpredictable, surface the unnamable, point toward a wild unknown. To become an error is to surrender to becoming unknown, unrecognizable, unnamed. . . . This state of opacity is a ripe error to reach toward, an urgent and necessary glitch.” De la Paz actively yields to the creative potential of supposed failures by encouraging spontaneity, rupture, play, and freedom.