ChipScapes Blanket - IBM Memory (Woven,Red, Green Gold)
About the Blanket
Wrap yourself in technology—literally. This woven blanket is designed to be as comfortable as it is meaningful, combining everyday warmth with a quiet tribute to the technologies that shape our modern lives. Featuring a ChipScapes computer-chip image, it works just as well draped over a couch as it does displayed on a wall, adding a distinctive, conversation-starting element to your home décor.
These blankets are made using true textile craftsmanship, not surface printing. A Jacquard loom is digitally programmed to weave the ChipScapes image directly into the fabric, interlacing carefully selected yarn colors—black, white, red, blue, green, gold, and others—thread by thread. The result is a richly detailed, tapestry-style blanket with natural depth, texture, and classic fringed edges formed by the warp threads themselves.
Measuring 50 × 60 inches, the blanket is made from 100% cotton for a soft hand and long-lasting durability. It is machine washable and designed to be enjoyed for years, whether used daily or kept as a display piece.
About the Artwork
I call this artwork Boundary Condition. A boundary condition is a term borrowed from mathematics, but it shows up everywhere in real life. It describes what happens at the edge—where one thing meets another. It’s at those edges that things get interesting: where systems interact, where expectations collide, where order meets uncertainty. We define ourselves in much the same way, at the boundary between our inner world and everything outside it, between us and others. That interface can be energizing, uncomfortable, confusing, and, ultimately, where growth happens.
Programmers understand this well. The hardest part of writing software is rarely the internal logic; it’s the interface—how a program connects to other programs and to the people who use it. No matter how careful the design, some boundary conditions will always be missed. When that happens, computers produce bugs. People call them learning experiences.
This artwork explores those same lively, unpredictable boundaries. At first glance, vines and berries appear to grow along a dividing line, as if drawing life from the boundary itself. Look closer, and they reveal their true nature. The image is derived from an IBM memory chip. The boundary line is the separation between two silicon dies. The vines are actually traces—the electrical wiring of the chip—while the berries are solder balls used to make connections.
This particular IBM memory device is a flip-chip design. The chip is turned face-down onto a circuit board, then heated and vibrated to melt the solder balls and bond them, forming hundreds of tiny, precise electrical connections. The result is a strong, reliable interface between the chip and the outside world—an engineered boundary condition done right. The artwork reflects that idea: that the interfaces in our lives, when well formed, can sustain, connect, and help us grow.