This exhibition of carpets adapted from my paintings can be likened to a solo musical performance that strives to re-interpret a concerto. The result is a variation on the original score, where the artist, aided by 8 Nepalese technicians’ six months of weaving, creates an inspired piece, both carpet and painting, now woven as one.
The painting will be reworked, re-interpreted and re-invented by traditional Tibetan – Nepali carpet-weavers. The painting will undergo an aesthetic transformation: From art object observed coldly at an aloof distance, to the warmth of what can be touched and is tactile. If a painting is cold, a carpet is warm, and the painting- transformed-to-carpet is no longer purely aesthetic. The distance between viewer and art object is reduced, moving closer is inevitable, and the soft touch of the carpet encourages human contact.