YEAR
2025
Shadowplay approaches shadow as something with weight and boundary. When light is absorbed rather than filtered, contrast intensifies and edges become defined. Shadow no longer drifts across a space; it settles onto a surface.
The Shadow chapter explores dense textile materials that hold light instead of transmitting it. Velvet absorbs illumination while the laser-altered areas reflect it differently, producing silhouettes and tonal variation directly through the material. The image is not applied to the textile but emerges from its optical and tactile qualities.
Here the surface is not only seen but touched. The thickness and softness of the material introduce a bodily awareness, where visual contrast and tactile sensation occur together. Through this encounter, the material suggests how surfaces within interiors — walls, panels or furniture — can carry emotional presence, allowing shadow to be both perceived and felt.
About the project
The project works with reclaimed velvet offcuts from the upholstery industry, treating discarded furnishing textiles as a starting material rather than waste. Laser engraving was used to study how different fibres react to heat. Through repeated testing, stable contrasts could be controlled directly in the material, revealing its optical behaviour instead of applying an external image.
After alteration, selected samples were re-dyed and re-woven, returning the material to new interior applications. The process not only changed appearance but also surface touch, shifting the velvet from a familiar fabric into a tactile architectural skin.
By engaging both sight and touch, the surfaces explore how material texture influences emotional perception within living environments.
A parallel series employed traditional hand screen printing with manually prepared stencils. Using the same visual motifs as the Shadowplay pieces, the fragmented imagery extends the project’s exploration of shadow, not as ornament but as a recurring presence across the series.
Smooth Scroll
This will hide itself!
This will hide itself!
Shadowplay - Shadow
Shadow fixed by material into a visible surface.
YEAR
2025
Shadowplay approaches shadow as something with weight and boundary. When light is absorbed rather than filtered, contrast intensifies and edges become defined. Shadow no longer drifts across a space; it settles onto a surface.
The Shadow chapter explores dense textile materials that hold light instead of transmitting it. Velvet absorbs illumination while the laser-altered areas reflect it differently, producing silhouettes and tonal variation directly through the material. The image is not applied to the textile but emerges from its optical and tactile qualities.
Here the surface is not only seen but touched. The thickness and softness of the material introduce a bodily awareness, where visual contrast and tactile sensation occur together. Through this encounter, the material suggests how surfaces within interiors — walls, panels or furniture — can carry emotional presence, allowing shadow to be both perceived and felt.
About the project
The project works with reclaimed velvet offcuts from the upholstery industry, treating discarded furnishing textiles as a starting material rather than waste. Laser engraving was used to study how different fibres react to heat. Through repeated testing, stable contrasts could be controlled directly in the material, revealing its optical behaviour instead of applying an external image.
After alteration, selected samples were re-dyed and re-woven, returning the material to new interior applications. The process not only changed appearance but also surface touch, shifting the velvet from a familiar fabric into a tactile architectural skin.
By engaging both sight and touch, the surfaces explore how material texture influences emotional perception within living environments.
A parallel series employed traditional hand screen printing with manually prepared stencils. Using the same visual motifs as the Shadowplay pieces, the fragmented imagery extends the project’s exploration of shadow, not as ornament but as a recurring presence across the series.
Smooth Scroll
This will hide itself!
This will hide itself!
Shadowplay - Shadow
Shadow fixed by material into a visible surface.
YEAR
2025
Shadowplay approaches shadow as something with weight and boundary. When light is absorbed rather than filtered, contrast intensifies and edges become defined. Shadow no longer drifts across a space; it settles onto a surface.
The Shadow chapter explores dense textile materials that hold light instead of transmitting it. Velvet absorbs illumination while the laser-altered areas reflect it differently, producing silhouettes and tonal variation directly through the material. The image is not applied to the textile but emerges from its optical and tactile qualities.
Here the surface is not only seen but touched. The thickness and softness of the material introduce a bodily awareness, where visual contrast and tactile sensation occur together. Through this encounter, the material suggests how surfaces within interiors — walls, panels or furniture — can carry emotional presence, allowing shadow to be both perceived and felt.
About the project
The project works with reclaimed velvet offcuts from the upholstery industry, treating discarded furnishing textiles as a starting material rather than waste. Laser engraving was used to study how different fibres react to heat. Through repeated testing, stable contrasts could be controlled directly in the material, revealing its optical behaviour instead of applying an external image.
After alteration, selected samples were re-dyed and re-woven, returning the material to new interior applications. The process not only changed appearance but also surface touch, shifting the velvet from a familiar fabric into a tactile architectural skin.
By engaging both sight and touch, the surfaces explore how material texture influences emotional perception within living environments.
A parallel series employed traditional hand screen printing with manually prepared stencils. Using the same visual motifs as the Shadowplay pieces, the fragmented imagery extends the project’s exploration of shadow, not as ornament but as a recurring presence across the series.
Smooth Scroll
This will hide itself!
This will hide itself!