CARPETS I WOULD
HAVE LOVED TO WEAVE
I don't know about you, but I often have a little feeling of regret
when I think about some other career I could have chosen (besides
being a dancer, which is really what I should have been). Lighthouse
keeper, Ships-in-a-bottle maker, calligrapher, ocarina soloist,
puzzle designer... Many of the activities that are attractive to
me have a slightly obsessive, almost autustic trait. But being a
musician and digital artist in 2011 is not very far from being a
lens maker in the 18th century: you're mostly home, alone, looking
at (or listening to) stuff for hours while you chisel, chip away,
retouch.
I'm very attracted by carpets, especially traditional carpets both
from central and eastern Asia. There is something almost mystical
about rugs: the symmetry, the color groups, the symbols. Also, a
carpet is the ultimate "Ambient Furniture": you might
not notice it right away, but it sets the mood of a space (or, to
quote The Dude, "That rug really tied the room together, did
it not?") Unfortunately I can neither afford really nice
carpets, nor know how to weave myself one. But I can use Photoshop,
so I started to toy with imaginary rug design.
These decorative themes come from a collection of (I believe) wall
and floor decorations (actually they seem to be scans of wallpaper)
called Greek Frames, Borders and Accents. The music, a
revamp of David Crosby's classic Traction
in the Rain, belongs to a series
of remixes I made in the past 6 years.
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