Work · 06

Patchwork

A wall built out of hundreds of small hand-laid rectangles in warm gold, with a single black line drawn across the white walls that meet it.

The texture is made by hand, one mark at a time, so no two patches are the same width or quite the same tone. Up close it reads as brickwork or mosaic; from the far end of the hallway it reads as one warm surface.

The black line is the counterweight. It runs across the plain walls and stops where the texture starts.

Medium: Textured plaster and ink
Surface: Plaster, built up by hand
Scope: Hallway wall and return
Finish: Matt, sealed

The finished wall

The finished textured gold wall in the living room with a white sofa — The texture wall against the seating.

The hallway with the textured wall and the black line running past the stairs — Down the hallway, past the stairs.

Close view of the black line meeting the textured plaster — Where the line meets the texture and stops.

How it was made

Daniel laying the small plaster patches by hand — Each patch laid by hand, one at a time.

The textured wall part built, with the painter at the base — Building up from the floor.

The hallway with the texture wall complete and the room still covered — Texture finished, room still sheeted.

The black line being set out across the white wall — Setting out the line.

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