East West, Going Viral

2021

Acrylic paint

111cm x 152cm x 5cm

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Capturing this pivotal moment of global, fashion overlapping, these female figures could be anywhere in the world. A contrast of impersonal manufactured T-shirts with arguably the most iconic representations of cultural, traded artisanal craft, Turkmen (Bokhara) carpets. Is mass production forming a global monoculture removing the need for the handmade?