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

For most people, carpets and rugs are utilitarian points—tender under the ft and good for warming up chilly flooring. For artist Alexandra Kehayoglouthey’re works of lush, verdant art work, made using recycled scraps and thread from a carpet manufacturing facility in Buenos Aires that is owned by her family. Plenty of her present work makes a press launch in opposition to deforestation and does an excellent wanting job of accelerating environmental consciousness.

We’ve seen Kehayoglou’s lovely art work beforehand, and her this work is pretty eye-popping too, creating every a backdrop and a flooring of nature that emulates the feeling 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 every bit by hand, an prolonged, labor-intensive course of. The artist calls these distinctive works “pastures” and “refuges,” demonstrating an consciousness of how the underside that the rug provides can flip right into a transformative issue for the creativeness to take flight and participate throughout the therapeutic ‘pasture’ of the ideas.

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

© Alexandra Kehayoglou

We focus on fairly a bit about the way in which to mix nature into our lives—oftentimes, which suggests making an effort to spend additional time outdoors and unplugging. Nevertheless bringing nature into the home works too, and furthermore cultivating additional vegetation, that’s the reason these rugs are superb: simple, made using recycled provides, evocative of nature’s magnificence—and reminding us of the areas we can’t afford to lose.

Check out totally different rugs and updated work—like her lovely Santa Crus River—on the artist’s web page: Alexandra Kehayoglou.