Colored Pencil — Interior Materials and Textiles, Fall ‘23
The pattern project allowed us to experiment with how images appear on different materials, how the colors on these images are changed when their hosts are changed, and how pattern motifs connect to create a cohesive whole. We began by choosing one “thing” in particular to jump off of — whether it was a tangible object or intangible feeling — and breaking this thing down into smaller motifs to study within the whole.
We researched our chosen subject extensively and allowed this content to inform our design. For me, I focused on colors that are naturally produced by fungi, but seem as though that shouldn’t be possible. Each of the bright colors used in my final pattern are sourced from real life mushrooms, demonstrating how extraordinary the seemingly mundane natural world (especially that of fungi) can be.