For most people, are utilitarian points—mushy beneath the ft and good for warming up chilly flooring. For artist , they’re works of lush, verdant paintings, made using recycled scraps and thread from a carpet manufacturing facility in Buenos Aires that is owned by her family. Plenty of her present work makes an announcement in opposition to deforestation and does an outstanding job of accelerating environmental consciousness.
Now we have seen Kehayoglou’s attractive paintings beforehand, and her this work is pretty eye-popping too, creating every a backdrop and a flooring of nature that emulates the feeling of moss, grass, sand, pastures, and even snow.
© Alexandra Kehayoglou
© Alexandra Kehayoglou
© Alexandra Kehayoglou
When positioned in a room, Kehayoglou’s rugs ship the mushy textures of nature into the environment. She designs and tufts every bit by hand, an prolonged, labor-intensive course of. The artist calls these distinctive works “pastures” and “refuges,” demonstrating an consciousness of how the underside that the rug provides can change right into a transformative side for the creativeness to take flight and participate inside the therapeutic ‘pasture’ of the ideas.
© Alexandra Kehayoglou
© Alexandra Kehayoglou
© Alexandra Kehayoglou
© Alexandra Kehayoglou
© Alexandra Kehayoglou
We talk about tons about straightforward strategies to mix nature into our lives—oftentimes, which suggests making an effort to spend further time open air and unplugging. Nonetheless bringing nature into the home works too, and furthermore cultivating further crops, that’s the reason these rugs are superb: straightforward, made using recycled provides, evocative of nature’s magnificence—and reminding us of the places we cannot afford to lose.
Check out completely different rugs and updated work—like her lovely Santa Crus River—on the artist’s web page: Alexandra Kehayoglou.