Chloroforce
Using imagery of bear root, sage, star anise and cedar, I am inspired by the Native American’s utilitarian and spiritual usage of these plants: they are not over-harvested and they are not used superficially. The plants all have medicinal value. Only what is needed is taken, and the Earth is given thanks for its gift.
In contrast, I am influenced by the Ikea commodity culture we live in, where objects are inexpensive, mass produced, and easily discarded. These furnishings often operate as temporary solutions. They are effectively designed but cheap and easy to throw away when they have served their purpose.
I cover these everyday furnishings with a playful use of color and floral motifs. Rather than outsource to a machine, I imagine my body as the machine as I methodically, and obsessively screen- print my patterns by hand. I seek to improve everyday surfaces by ornamenting them with these sacred, utilitarian plants and herbs. Every square foot of the flooring, the wallpaper, and the textiles is decorated with these original and improvised prints, disrupting the idea of the "perfect repeat" used in machine manufactured materials. No two floor boards are exactly the same, and each foot of wallpaper is one of a kind. These home design objects become limited edition prints, and as such, explore concepts of value and consumption in a commodity culture.
It is my hope that with love and hard work, I can save these objects from their previously doomed existence, and transform them into unique design pieces to be collected and cherished.
In contrast, I am influenced by the Ikea commodity culture we live in, where objects are inexpensive, mass produced, and easily discarded. These furnishings often operate as temporary solutions. They are effectively designed but cheap and easy to throw away when they have served their purpose.
I cover these everyday furnishings with a playful use of color and floral motifs. Rather than outsource to a machine, I imagine my body as the machine as I methodically, and obsessively screen- print my patterns by hand. I seek to improve everyday surfaces by ornamenting them with these sacred, utilitarian plants and herbs. Every square foot of the flooring, the wallpaper, and the textiles is decorated with these original and improvised prints, disrupting the idea of the "perfect repeat" used in machine manufactured materials. No two floor boards are exactly the same, and each foot of wallpaper is one of a kind. These home design objects become limited edition prints, and as such, explore concepts of value and consumption in a commodity culture.
It is my hope that with love and hard work, I can save these objects from their previously doomed existence, and transform them into unique design pieces to be collected and cherished.