Buying the complete A4 paper section of a bankrupt stationery store gave Thomas Voorn the contents for his new product Temporary Tapestry: creating fun prints out of misery.
Tapestry of Paper
Dutch designer Thomas Voorn releases a new body of work called Afoour: random papers turned into regulated photographic prints and patterns.
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- 28 December 2015
- Rotterdam
Photographic images of these A4 papers are the base of playful patterns in typical Voorn style: subtly twisting reality and winking to daily life.
In the AFour series he merges his love for colors and prints, and his fascination for the aesthetic border between dose and overdose in design. The series is a color blast. Each part of the patterns is an image of colorful paper. In close-up you’ll see all the detailing and paper layers in the designs. Although most of the print designs look sharp and digital, each print started with a random bunch of A4 papers thrown about and made into a photographic image at Studio Thomas Voorn.
In the design process Voorn produced handmade paper prints live on the wall and digitalized it. He printed these designs and photographed it again; photo’s of paper printed on paper, playful going back and forth from live to print, from print to live.
Each time layering new on top of old, like overpainting a painting.
Temporary Tapestry
Design: Studio Thomas Voorn