Look at Your Walls by Christopher Pearson

Christopher Pearson
Look at Your Walls, 2007

A familiar wallpaper pattern begins to stir. In Look at Your Walls, Christopher Pearson turns decoration into a moving image, inviting viewers to notice what might otherwise remain in the background.

Pearson reinterpreted William Morris’s leafy wallpaper design of 1887 through digital animation. Branches sway and leaves drift across the surface, giving the impression of a breeze passing through the room. The movement is subtle, gradually revealing that this seemingly ordinary wall covering has a life of its own.

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Presented with Droog at Smart Deco II during the Salone del Mobile in 2007, the work brings a historic decorative pattern into a contemporary interior through moving-image technology. Its changing details encourage us to pause and look more closely.

*Images courtesy: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.