Martinique® (x CW Stockwell)

Obsession:

For this artwork, we drew inspiration from a scene in The Matrix, when Neo begins to perceive the world as a continuous flow of green digital code as he embraces his role as The One.

Our process began by reducing the scale of a tracing of the Martinique® banana leaves by ten. We then transferred these dense, micro-scaled Martinique® leaves onto the original, standard-sized pattern lines.

This overlay resulted in random intersections that both abstracted and reconstituted the rhythmic language of this pattern’s beauty. Navigating this landscape of leaves within leaves through a painting practice allowed us to find a new way to see something exquisite.

In Obsession, this timeless icon balances desire and resistance to change while glamorously reinventing herself.

Celebration!:

For this collection, CW Stockwell's irrepressible Martinique® hand-printed banana leaf pattern serves as both structural guide and canvas underneath five gouache over-paintings. Our first collaboration with the heritage brand's archive, Celebration! presents a whimsical suite of painterly reinterpretations inspired by five icons of art and design: David Hockney, Henri Matisse, Josef Frank, Theodor Seuss, and Werner Herzog.

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