Static, test patterns, blue display screens, movie previews: These images signal that “content will commence”. These are often thought of as images of no consequence. However, these are the moments many of us have seen, moments we share, moments of expectation. I believe that what is mass about mass media is not the content of what we are watching but the framing and the ways we interact with these machines. The images I have been working with are ones many of us are familiar with if we have ever watched a television. Television watchers also share a sense of the fast and often overwhelming evolution of technology. The images I have chosen to work with are almost obsolete to the American television viewing audience. Technology inspired me to press the pause button on these images and used the slow and tactile methods of needlepoint and rug making and the stillness of photography to explore what happens when a fleeting image made of light is translated into something still and solid. A strange, nostalgic and humorous friendship shows itself. The grid of the needlework fabric resembles the pixilation of the television screen. The test pattern becomes a funny rug with more texture and weight than the one on the screen could ever show. The craftwork translates itself back into the digital realm by becoming a series of photographs hung in a non-moving homage to the TV sales wall.