What do you look for in a rug?

Magic, there’s an indescribable feeling I get when I find the “right” rug. Over the years I’ve found that I’m more drawn to the geometric rugs, the Caucasian and Armenian ones, but you never know what you’re going to find and I love being surprised. Lately I’ve fallen in love with some spectacular Chinese Deco; Peking pieces, and the old Afghan pictorials really blow my mind, those feel like a study in chaos and control.

Is there a common thread between your photography and the way you source rugs?

Everything I do is visually driven, it’ll take me multiple meetings to remember someones name but I can tell you what you wore the first time we met. I used to display the rugs next to some arial landscape photography I’d shot on a travel job to illustrate that they are the same visual language, color, texture, and pattern. I look at the rugs in this way, they often look like landscapes to me, I assume they were inspired by the landscape they were created in. Navajo rugs look like mesa’s and plateaus to me, Persian rugs often remind me of the night sky, of the heavens. I also like art to be one of a kind, the majority of my photography work is Polaroid, I like art to be an object, to be unique. Every rug is one of a kind.