kolam with facial recognition

Based on typical South Indian Pulli (dot) Kolam patterns, kolam designs were produced based on facial recognition data from family photographs. I took one photograph of my maternal grandmother, one of my mother and one of my paternal grandmother and translated each number in each corresponding facial recognition vector into a component of the kolam pattern, producing three distinct kolam designs. I then embossed these patterns onto cyanotype prints of the corresponding photographs.

I consider this work to be a precursor or earlier iteration to what would become a project focussed more on text translations called kolam.codes.