2024

Doubled-sided woven tapestry (“Human Vision” and “Pollinator Vision”), 14 x 2.5 metres

Commission by Private Client for a four-storey office complex

Four Epochs of Paradise (Pollinator Vision side), 2024. Documentation hang. Photo Theirry Bal. © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd

Four Epochs of Paradise (Human Vision side), 2024. Documentation hang. Photo Theirry Bal. © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd

Detail of 'Four Epochs of Paradise' (Human Vision side), 2024. Documentation hang. Photo Theirry Bal. © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd

Detail of 'Four Epochs of Paradise' (Pollinator Vision side), 2024. Documentation hang. Photo Theirry Bal. © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd

Detail of 'Four Epochs of Paradise' (Human Vision side), 2024. Documentation hang. Photo Theirry Bal. © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd

Bringing the outdoors inside, this bespoke double-sided tapestry stitches together digitally painted renders of a privately commissioned Pollinator Pathmaker edition, following its transition through the seasons.

Installed through four floors of the main stairwell, at fourteen metres long, the tapestry’s scale shrinks humans circling the stairs to the size of pollinating insects encountering flowers, inviting us to see from their perspective. Insects sense the world differently from us and even from each other; colour is a matter of biological perception.

Reminding us of the need for empathy, one side of the tapestry shows the world through human eyes, while the reverse is skewed through a simplified “Pollinator Vision” filter. The floral imagery is scarred with artefacts: digital distortions that remind us of the otherworldliness of these rendered spaces and their utopian origins.

The terrace’s Pollinator Pathmaker planting is designed by an algorithm using a pixel-based grid; similarly, the tapestry’s warp and weft offer another more sustainable medium to explore digital art, rather than showing it on screens. This soft digital artwork echoes Pollinator Pathmaker’s values: shifting from the abstraction of computation to the tactile interactions of ecosystems, encouraging caretaking and tenderness for our shared natural world.