New: Shard print
Sometimes I’m a very slow designer.
I’ve realised this as I go through a very high-energy week, in which we’re launching a brand new print called Shard at Decorex Cape Town.
While it is a visually energetic with Op-Art vibes, the idea for Shard came about during those slow, peculiar weeks and months when the whole world was locked up at home.
While confined to our apartment during Lockdown, I had time to watch our little Siamese cat’s keen investment in the progression of the Wintery sunshine falling across the livingroom rug, and started noticing the shapes of light coming through the blinds.
As the days passed, I watched how the angled patches of light on the rug changed shape, shifting slowly as the morning progressed.
I started drawing the shapes in my sketchbook, then turned the shapes into an overlapping pattern to stitch onto a tapestry canvas.
A few months later, when we were permitted to leave our homes again (!!!) (such strange times!) I began exploring the shapes in my studio, printing onto linen using masking tape cut into into progressively shifting shapes.
I was thinking of the shard of light tracking across the livingroom rug, creating a progressive pattern over the course of each morning, and shifting slightly from one day to the next.
I became intrigued by the idea of turning this progression into a repeating pattern on fabric – almost like seeing a time-lapse of the passing light on fabric.
And that’s the story of how the light on our livingroom rug ended up as a optically dazzling fabric print called Shard.
