A tufted textile recreation of a computer RAM stick, crafted with surprising technical accuracy. The piece features a green circuit board base with yellow contact pins running along the bottom edge. The memory chips are represented by alternating rectangles in cream, navy blue, and light mint colors, arranged in the characteristic symmetric pattern of RAM modules. Yellow dots above the chips mimic capacitors or other surface-mount components. Two circular elements cap each end--one in bright yellow, one in navy blue--representing mounting hardware or heat spreaders.

The attention to detail extends to the actual layout: the chips and components are positioned where they'd actually appear on a real DDR4 or DDR5 module. Made with short cut pile on a green tufted background.

This piece takes something typically invisible and hyper-abstract (system memory) and forces it into the physical world at an exaggerated scale. A stick of RAM, but oversized, tactile, and slow.

It's a nod to the infrastructure layer that underpins everything we're building right now. Models, agents, orchestration layers - all of it ultimately collapses down into memory, allocation, and throughput. This rug turns that hidden dependency into something you can actually see, touch, and trip over.

There's a bit of humor in it too. RAM is expensive, so naturally the solution is to tuft your own. But beneath that is a quieter idea: we're increasingly surrounded by systems we don't physically interact with anymore. This piece pulls one of those systems back into human scale.

A tribute, or maybe an offering, to the machines.

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