Wood Rug 1

2005. Various scrap woods on plywood. 38" x 22" $599.99 plus $15.99 for shipping. Click here if you want this piece.

This is part of a series of 'Oriental rugs' I've made out of scrap wood, as sort of a sub-series of Commemorating Waste. I got bored with the anal-retentive exactitude of framing every wooden wall composition, so I began to make 'fringes' on a couple of sides, and instead of going for a purely original design, I've been basing my concept upon rugs from the multitude of countries who've been making them for millennia. This particular one was based on a Qum rug (which I really have no idea what that means) I found on a web site dealing primarily with rugs from the South of Persia. I got the idea for a strong composition, my materials seemed interested in being very geometric (they've got a mind of their own; after all, they've been rejected), and I let the plywood fill in the background. This is very simplistic composition, I have to admit.