Charles and Ray Eames
Powers
of Ten, still
1977
'Fungi
Carpet' is a hand-tufted, wool carpet (350-550 cm) made for a tree trunk in the
Belmonte arboretum in Wageningen. During the summer months of 2018 the carpet
lay outside, in the sun and rain, during the exhibition 'Zomersneeuw' ('Summer
Snow'). The video is a drone recording of the first and the last day of this
project (June 16 - September 23).
The
top view of the work is an image that nobody has been able to observe, the idea
of the micro image of a bacteria and/or universe coming close together. The
documentation has become a work in itself and was unintentionally inspired by
the 'Powers of Ten' by Charles & Ray Eames.
The
carpet was then cleaned and dried intensively, which lasted for months. By
shaving off the top 5 mm of the wool, part of the color came back and a new
color palette was created. Fungi Carpet 2.0 was on display in the exhibition 'Natuurlijk'
('Natural') in Pictura, Dordrecht in 2019, among others.
Lizan Freijsen, 2019
Lizan Freijsen (NL)
Faded, Fungi Carpet
2018
2018
