The mood board behind Summer Séquence

Every SAEBA season starts with a folder of saved images. No brief, no strategy document — just things that felt right over the past six months.

For SS26, the folder was full of glitch art, satellite photography, signal diagrams, and lo-fi video compression artifacts. The kind of imagery that happens when technology fails gracefully.

We were drawn to the idea of information that degrades but remains legible. A pixelated image you can still read. A corrupted file that opens anyway. There is something optimistic about that — the content survives the medium failing.

That translated into the embroidery motifs: patterns that look like they are breaking apart at the edges but remain coherent at the center. Stitches that reference signal noise. Color choices pulled from LCD burn-in and CRT phosphor glow.

Fourteen pieces. All of them ask the same question: what survives compression?