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David Hanauer's Worldwide Carpets: Artist Uses Google Earth To Make Area Rugs (PHOTOS) (Huffington post)
If you've ever flown around in Google Earth, you'll begin to notice patterns;
the way suburbs look eerily the same, or the way large cities are diminished
from sky scrapers to just the shapes of their rooftops. These patterns are
something that artist David Hanauer caught on to, taking the virtual vantage
point and printing it onto area rugs. He said in an interview with German news
organization Deutsche Welle that the rugs are meant to imitate contemporary
Persian rugs. Like the Persian variety, the Google Earth rugs focus around a
central point and repeat patterns. To achieve this effect, each rug has one
aerial shot repeated four times, mirroring one another to have the same
center.
"In the visual sense, our eyes are not trained to see things from above,"
Hanauer said in the interview. "So if you suddenly get this aerial view, it
takes time to see what it's suppose to be."
This sort of visual trickery is somewhat of a consistent theme in Hanauer's
work. "The Living Structure" is a rectangular, hollow structure constructed of
12 pieces of wood. What looks like a simple box is actually multifunctional
and can be used as ...
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