These Recycled ‘Pasture’ Rugs Convey Nature’s Textures Into the Dwelling

For most individuals, carpets and rugs are utilitarian factors—tender beneath the ft and good for warming up chilly flooring. For artist Alexandra Kehayoglouthey’re works of lush, verdant artwork work, made utilizing recycled scraps and thread from a carpet manufacturing facility in Buenos Aires that’s owned by her household. Loads of her current work makes a press launch in opposition to deforestation and does a superb wanting job of accelerating environmental consciousness.

We have seen Kehayoglou’s beautiful artwork work beforehand, and her this work is fairly eye-popping too, creating each a backdrop and a flooring of nature that emulates the sensation of moss, grass, sand, pastures, and even snow.

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

When positioned in a room, Kehayoglou’s rugs carry the tender textures of nature into the ambiance. She designs and tufts each bit by hand, an extended, labor-intensive course of. The artist calls these distinctive works “pastures” and “refuges,” demonstrating an consciousness of how the underside that the rug supplies can flip proper right into a transformative subject for the creativeness to take flight and take part all through the therapeutic ‘pasture’ of the concepts.

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

We concentrate on pretty a bit about the way in which through which to combine nature into our lives—oftentimes, which suggests making an effort to spend extra time outdoor and unplugging. Nonetheless bringing nature into the house works too, and moreover cultivating extra vegetation, that is the explanation these rugs are very good: easy, made utilizing recycled supplies, evocative of nature’s magnificence—and reminding us of the areas we won’t afford to lose.

Try completely totally different rugs and up to date work—like her beautiful Santa Crus River—on the artist’s net web page: Alexandra Kehayoglou.