exterior decorating

Laura Vickerson. Upholstered Roots. Chateau Mathieu, France. 2009

The fabric of domestic life escapes its usual confines and subverts the natural disorder of things....

Laura Vickerson. Upholstered Root. Chateau Mathieu, France. 2009

See more of Laura Vickerson's work in the following posts: holy waters; and rose petals.

Laura Vickerson, rose petals

Laura Vickerson. Studies of Nature II (detail). Mixed media with rose petals.

Blood cascades down a wall, breaking into fire, breaking into light;

and pools, ultimately, in a small puddle of gold.

Laura Vickerson. Studies of Nature II. Mixed media with rose petals.

See more of Laura Vickerson's rose petals here. For a completely different work by Vickerson, see exterior decorating.

holy waters

Laura Vickerson. Velvet. Rose petals on bridal tulle.
4th century church, Istanbul. 1995

A hundred thousand red rose petals bleed down the wall of an ancient Turkish church. 

While across a continent and more than a decade, a hundred thousand pigeon feathers erupt and gush from a wall in an English crypt.

Kate MccGwire. Retch. Mixed media with pigeon feathers.
St. Pancras' crypt, London. 2007

Kate MccGwire. Sluice. Mixed media with pigeon feathers.
St. Panras Crypt, London. 2009

Kate MccGwire. Sluice. Mixed media with pigeon feathers.
St Pancras crypt, London. 2009

See more of Laura Vickerson's work here or here.

See more of Kate MccGwire's work here or here.