For most people, carpets and rugs are utilitarian points—delicate beneath the ft and good for warming up chilly flooring. For artist Alexandra Kehayoglou, they’re works of lush, verdant paintings, made using recycled scraps and thread from a carpet manufacturing unit in Buenos Aires that is owned by her family. Lots of her newest work makes an announcement in the direction of deforestation and does a pretty 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 carry the fragile textures of nature into the setting. She designs and tufts each 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 develop right into a transformative facet 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 focus on masses about how one can mix nature into our lives—oftentimes, which means making an effort to spend further time outside and unplugging. Nevertheless bringing nature into the home works too, and furthermore cultivating further crops, that’s the reason these rugs are superb: simple, made using recycled provides, evocative of nature’s magnificence—and reminding us of the places we can’t afford to lose.
Check out totally different rugs and updated work—like her stunning Santa Crus River—on the artist’s website online: Alexandra Kehayoglou.