"The loom and fabric never met until they did. Thinking through Tim Ingold’s binary notion that making and design either tend to follow the material in the act of creation or follow a preconceived design that is then imposed onto material, When the Hammer has a Hole does a little bit of both. Heddles (the structure that lift the fabric in the process of weaving) move around to create an open fabric with variable tension. The loom that my brother, Gabriel Dominguez, created for me acts on that tension and changes the shape of my weaving. The weaving in turn changes the way my brother needed to build the loom to anticipate the variable tension and my weaving choices. Of course, there were a lot of preconceived schematics that came to the process as we were building loom and fabric across the country from one another. But there was the color of the hand carved walnut tree in NJ and there was the stretch of the handspun wool in Chicago, and it was as much our response to the material in our hands, as it was any fixed measurements that brought this project together in CA." - Kira Dominguez Hultgren