The ENIAC Quilt is a pieced cloth work composed of many 6” x 6” colorful cotton squares. The squares are pastel shades (pink, blue, yellow, brown, and green). On top of the squares are various designs of archival computer women images, stencils and symbols of various retro iconography, alongside other things. It resembles a brightly colored quilt topper, and in its inevitable final form it will become a full batted quilt. After each individual square was printed on, I arranged them on the wall and pieced together the rows. I sewed each row together to create the final piece of which I added some additional prints on top to layer over the sewn creases.

            The story of this piece is to tell the story of ENIAC women and the story of the first computer engineers who were women. I combined my previous ideas of domesticity and feminism and I wanted to expand to show the correlation of women’s work autonomy goes with textiles. Alongside my work’s on labor and the dichotomy of women being used by the textile industry versus using textiles as a creative outlet, this expands upon those ideas of labor in a traditional sense and struggling against the rules of what women can do. In the end these women had broken ground of a very important field, but they were ousted by men who saw that the field would lead to lucrative careers. I wanted to cover this important topic of history and I am glad to bring it into my body of work. Similarly to my other works I keep a silly but serious tone. The bright colors and light hearted tone works in contrast with the serious and disorientating imagery.