Inspired by low-resolution, small-file digital images, Compiler invited people local to create patterns and motifs that speak to personal journeys, overlooked routes, places and things that matter to them in the local area. Workshop participants will encode places, stories, or feelings into a collective digital tapestry, to be presented at Eastbury in Tracing Together, an installation of LED screens that visualise points of connection and traces left for others.

Through an interest in the history of cross-stitch embroidery, such as Palestinian Tatreez and similar practices from other cultures, Tracing Together explores these as a precursor to digital image-making. Reconsidering the power of repeatable designs as a way of preserving cultural identity and connection to place.

At a time when the mass sharing of high-resolution visuals online, driven by big-tech platforms, is becoming increasingly harmful to the planet due to power consumption, Tracing Together revisits slower, low-impact image-making practices that continue to endure.

Exhibition runs until Summer 2026 during opening times.