Kour Pour is half British and half Persian. His father owned a rug shop and would hand dye faded antique rugs, passionately preserving their history and meanings. Moving from London to LA he felt a sense of displacement and began working on recreating the magic carpets he became so familiar with as a child.
Trawling auction catalogues, Kour scans the patterns and then burns them onto silkscreen. From there painting process begins with the creation of an under-painting (made with a broom) which simulates the texture of the “warp and weft” of a carpet. The next step is to screen print the image of the rug on top of the under-painting. Once the silkscreen has been printed, the painstaking process of hand painting every detail of the carpet begins, which can take up to two months for a large-scale piece. To finish the works, Kour uses an electrical sander to erase the painted surface and expose the layers of the under-painting.
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