Richard Saja’s Recontextualized Toile de Jouy
Artist Richard Saja updates classic French Toile for Keds for Opening Ceremony:
Anyone familiar with “Toile de Jouy” — a print that originated in 1700s France — would most likely associate it with the sweet, girly Marie Antoinette-style decor of grandma’s dining room, but Richard’s reinterpretations subvert the expected daintiness by inserting figures reminiscent of the artist’s childhood doodles: superheroes, monsters, clowns, and mutants. The end result recalls something else along the lines of fabric graffiti, or comic strip tapestry.
— via High Snobbery (h/t Aloha Nico)
Someone get me some fine point paint pens* in an array of colors, I’ve got a few pillows I need to “recontextualize”.
*He uses embroidery, but I, alas, don’t do needlework.
