Engler’s paintings are also the product of a chance encounter: this time with paper collages of parquet tile patterns that were discarded by her children’s school. She digitally enlarges and recreates the collages in acrylic gouache, achieving a verisimilitude down to the idiosyncratic cuts and irregular tears of the paper. Engler’s reworking of found patterns in different media draws attention to their constituent parts. As French poet Emmanuelle Guattari has written on Engler’s needlepoints, the works operate “like pixels in a photograph. They take us to the center of an image of the material world to the point where the image dissolves itself.”