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2011 - laminate flooring - parador
The patterns created play on perception of a mysterious light coming from the floor. They can only be read indistinctly, since they don’t resolve into a graphic system or a carpet pattern or the pattern of veined marble. It’s more a matter of the texture of light.
The starting point is the memory of sensations attached to places: the blurred vision of the cedar of Lebanon seen through the opalescent glass of the Fondation Cartier inParis, for the first proposal, a vague suggestion of branches with the light behind them, with the sky behind them.
The image is zoomed, pixelated, reframed, then divided into 10 rectangles that serve as the flooring’s basis. All that’s left of the original are vague hints. The images link up subtlely and form woven segments that can be combined in endless variations.
Winner of the 2011 AIT Award.
The challenge was to set up a subtle interplay, a query, through the juxtaposition of indeterminate patterns that evoke memories of colours, memories of shapes.
