Artist Louise Riley uses an understatedly intimate medium as a canvas for her art—mattresses. The unique canvas is a surface that the human skin often comes into contact with. Riley sees its “presence in our rights of passage, our sleep, rest, thoughts, dreams, the theatre of life spilled out onto it,” and with this in mind, stitches poignant figures into the fabric.
The artist gives new meaning to the term threadbare—her figures are usually naked, sprawled in relaxed but exposed positions. Riley delves deep into the heart of human nature when she renders her art, imagining “the thread being strands of DNA and the stitches binary codes”.
The mattresses are rolled, cut, torn, suspended and re-shaped to suit each piece, and stray threads are deliberately made visible. Have a look at some of these beautiful pieces below.
[via Beautiful Decay and Louise Riley]