Torn, layered and painted linen covered with numerous carefully plotted holes allude to the cards fed through hand-crank machines in the Heilbrun & Pinner factories to yield various honeycomb paper patterns. Cotts’s 'punch cards' are a vehicle to explore the idea of input rather than output. Cotts morphs what were effectively common mechanical instructional documents into seductive, hand-made repositories of idea and social exchange. The holes and torn fabric further function to highlight the notion of physical displacement and psychological loss.