Showroom dynasty

My rug prints (dye sublimation on velvet) blend the aesthetics of modern casino carpets with 18th century Savonnerie rugs - textiles favored by French aristocracy. While the rugs reference unattainable, handwoven opulence, they are produced through a craft-based collage process. Once the collage is made, they are flattened through digital photography and printed mechanically by a consumer level printing company. While mimicking decadent aesthetics, the process and final print are made from what might be perceived as “low value” materials and are offered to art collectors as an accessible print edition. This process also offers a reflection of our own lives, where we attempt to navigate an increasingly disorienting interwoven world of the physical and the virtual. The overwhelming colors, textures, and designs are enchanting, yet the elements that constitute them are discarded, cheap, artificial, or dead. The perception of what is desirable is played with here, by luring the viewer in with specific design aesthetics before revealing the work’s intangible and kitsch qualities.

Note: These rugs are made through a physical process with real materials and then photographed to create the final print. There is no digital manipulation beyond basic clean up