When I was a child, our apartment had carpets on the walls and floors, as did many homes across the post-Soviet space.
I often looked at their patterns, trying to find my way out of the complicated paths of fibres — a small game of escape through woven labyrinths.
My wife, Marina, is an artist who also loves patterns, textures, and the natural materials of carpets. She explores this in her series of paintings titled Home.
Together, we decided to combine two creative mediums and bring this project to life with the support of the modelling agency Lumose (@lumo.se).
Our home doesn’t need carpets for practical reasons, yet they still make the space feel warm and familiar. With this series, I wanted to show that the patterns from my childhood — the ones I used to gaze at for hours — are still part of me, and of hundreds of thousands of others who share that visual memory.
Text by Maksim Sozdanov
