Golden Caves
Designing surfaces inspired by the first
human expressions in paintings.
Cave paintings represent humanity's earliest encounters with materials and storytelling in visual and tactile forms. With the project Golden Caves, we seek to reimagine this ancient art form by crafting intriguing surfaces that capture its essence using soft materials, particularly textiles.
+ Surface Design, CMF, Jacquard.
+ Live Classroom Project with Mulberry Silks Bnagalore
Agenda
What
Surface design in soft materials for textile wallpapers and furnishings for the luxury interior client Zoffany in collaboration with Mulberry Silks Bangalore.
Why
To expand the scope of interior storytelling and embed meaning, culture and emotion in a space.
How
By exploring and Creating surfaces through textile sensibilities in Jacquard by taking cave art as inspiration.
The 'why' of creating surfaces, defines the 'how' and 'what' of this process.
RESEARCH
Zoffany is a British luxury textiles furnishing company that seeks inspiration from old aesthetics of temple art, paintings, and crafts.
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+ Luxury
+ Figurative
+ Bold imagery with Subdued Palettes.
INSPIRATION
What were
the first signs of visual + material communication by humans?
Studying textures, colours and materials of the earliest cave paintings of Lascaux, France.
DECODING
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Deconstructing feelings, colours and materials.
EXPLORATION
Across Media
Exploring cave painting styles, motifs and treatments through different mediums on different surfaces.
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(charcoal, soft pastels, overlaying, transluscency )
SURFACE
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The Final Surface
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+ 5 feet x 3 ft
+ Mixed Media
The surface has overlaying textures as well as accent play of colours while maintaining an earthy pallette
POTENTIAL DIRECTIONS
+ Foil highlight in muted hues with merging grounds; subtle background texture.
+ Dark motifs, with muted outlines; gritty textures in background.
+ Dramatic highlights and warm shadows in accent red colour; stark motifs detail.
+ Hide and Seek effect; subdued background and foreground with monochromatic motif.
MATERIALISATION
Final Materialisation of the surface into fabric.
Deer - prancing; a common visual across cave paintings.
The dhoop - chaun due to the yarn selection allows for a hide and seek effect when looked at in different angles and environments.
Hand print on a bull - a sign of reverence across cultures and human interaction.
Prancing bulls and horses.
VISUALISATION
Mapping potential uses as surface coverings and understanding the environment.