By McLean Fahnestock
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
AS FAR AS A VIEW, is part of a series of works that consider the decorative and escapist role of
the landscape in the home. When seeking beauty in the world to distract us, delight us, and
bring us into our own world, we seek something that stirs within us a memory or a dream.
Traditionally, tapestries are a storytelling media as well as décor. This particular work is
constructed from commercially printed tapestries acquired from a Chinese supplier during the
pandemic. These tell a story of arrested, yet ample, desire.
On one side of the piece we see a sunrise from a beach with palm trees. Gently folded over to the right is a second tapestry. In this the artist has chose to expose the desaturated backside which obscures slightly the third tapestry landscape of beach scene around midday. It brings to mind the passage of time much like time lapse photography...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints