Total Luxury Spa Features Cauleen Smith for its Latest Artist Series
Smith discusses the conceptual framework for her new textile banners.
Cauleen Smith is an American filmmaker, multimedia artist and educator whose work reflects on the everyday possibilities of the human imagination. Inspired by science fiction, structuralism and third-world cinema, the California-based artist creates films, installations and objects that seek to elicit contemplation on narratives both familiar and mysterious.
Los Angeles-based label Total Luxury Spa worked with Smith for the latest iteration of its Artist Series. In the video below, Smith speaks on the challenges faced when adapting her graphic illustrations into textiles, along with conceptually pondering how the climate crisis is worsening due to humankind’s behavior and relationship of constantly taking from the planet.
The resulting textile banners feature personal idioms that serve as archetypes of the universe. Each artwork seeks to alter viewers’ perception by combining both mundane and symbolic concepts through the written word, in attempt to express Smith’s belief in utopian potentiality.
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