latter of fact: October 2010

One of the perks/hazards of doing what I do is falling in love. Finding the things that make a space really come together excite me, but the real thrill comes in seeing something that stops me dead in my tracks and makes me gasp for air. Frequently, I not only am struck by the beauty of a particular something, but the process of its creation. My thoughts immediately leap to the artist - to thinking about the genius behind the work and wanting to be a fly on the wall during its creation. What? You're not mesmerized by glassblowing?
While trawling the internet one night, I came across Eskayel wallpaper and I had such an experience. As a professional, I see wallpaper and fabric patterns divided into a few tidy categories, floral, geometric, etc. - and some subcategories within each. But this was altogether something different. Eskayel papers have the quality of a geometric but with the added wonder of the irregularities found in nature, or the happenstance of an artist taking a chance. Like gazing at crystals under a microscope or the smear of ink in a child's folded artwork. To me, they're like dreamy technicolor Rorschach tests. And yeah, I'd eat them for sure.