These drawings are preparatory images for an unrealized project: To acquire one used carpet from every U.S. State and subsequently placed behind glass and framed in repurposed porch plank. The carpets will be shown at the major U.S. airports (they’re always looking for stuff to go on the walls, same with hospitals and biker bars) as part of a traveling exhibit, the works having been transported on the exterior of glazier’s vans as part of a fifty vehicle convoy, using backroads only. A reminder to the weary air traveller of the reassuring homeliness of carpeted terra firma.

Similar to the used fabric paintings, thoughts extended to the acquisition of used fitted house carpets, pock marked and stained, paths worn by years of pedestrian passage through the domicile. These fabrics will consist of fibers riddled with all sorts of fluff, gloop and crumb and faithful to the floor dimensions of specific rooms. The frames would also conform to the dimensions of the carpets, which act as unseen furry architectural plans and possibly resemble future maps of State boundaries.  Well, give a militia a map and a pen and let the cartography develop.

Within most of the series of works featured on artreachrooms.com there are formats, ideas and images that cross over and reoccur in other series, for instance, some of the drawings below are made on Visa documentation, so let the carpet ambassadors emerge from the consulates dragging their old floor covers out for donation. Perhaps some of the rugs contain bugs, or at least bugging devices. “To the airport, and step on it!”