Makeshift

Makeshift is delicate—a soft architecture that suggests both a flag and a decorative carpet. The textile is block-printed with stacked brick patterning and ornament, a reference to Saint Louis’ extensive brick production that influenced much of the American Midwest’s building program during the 19th and 20th centuries. The magic carpet, a common narrative trope, is used to suggest movement, transcendence, and flight, but also to hint at domestic space and the dwellings we inhabit. Tapestries have long told stories, and similarly Makeshift signals the ephemeral qualities of the urban and suburban landscape around us—the places we inhabit are sometimes with us briefly and we are transitory.