Architectural Quilts

Pieces, Petals, Leaves and Eaves is a collection of wholecloth quilts designed from photographs of flowers and vernacular architecture in historical neighborhoods. Digitally printed on cotton, these images are constructed with three basic elements. 1. A tiled background in which architecture and botanicals are sampled at various scales, 2. Architectural elements selected out from photographic images based on subject features and composited into a new urban landscape, and 3. A transitional layer with alpha blending between the girih “sky” on top and architectural montage on the bottom. The space created is fanciful but plausible where buildings and parts of buildings maintain their vertical orientation. Depth is compressed as in Byzantine mosaics and lighting is often arbitrary.