Described as a 'pioneering digital designer/artist' Christopher Pearson's work explores the space between the virtual world of digital technology and the tangible tradition of craft. Pearson focuses on the potential of how things could be, as opposed to what they are. Working on bespoke projects he explores the lost art of craft. His work shows how far wallpaper has advanced in the past decade. Practioners in this area are really pushing the boundaries of what is considered 'wallpaper', none more so than Pearson. Like Verhoeven, his work adds a whole other dimension challenging the stereotypes between art and technology and our cliched views of wallpaper.
'Wallpaper became my own outlet for working with pattern, it also embodied my interests in traditional design and gave me a structure in which I could explore and find out what wallpaper could be, rather than what people think it is.'
'The problem with wallpaper is people think its just for walls; it should be an excuse to cover anything and everything.'
I agree with the quotes above from Pearson - and have tried when producing the work for this project to be open to ideas about what wallcovering is actually all about and means. I have been daunted by the scale of finished work i want to complete but I think i have to be positive and not daunted by it, anything is possible!
www.lookatyourwalls.com
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