Artwork
Tatami-Rug
A Persian rug pattern painted onto tatami, merging two aesthetics.
About this work
This piece is inspired by Japanese admiration of Western culture during the rapidly westernising society of the 1960s and 1970s. The work represents a merging of Japanese culture with Western aesthetics through a Persian rug pattern painted onto tatami.
The original site reproduced this work only as a small thumbnail; the image here has been enlarged from that archival file.