Pae White designs stunning main stage curtain inspired by tin foil

Pae White is the artist has designed a breath taking main stage curtain for the Oslo Opera House. The Los Angeles based artist scanned images of crumpled aluminum foil then sent the scans through a computer numerically-controlled loom which transformed the pixels into a massive tapestry of cotton, wool, and polyester. The design is called “Metafoil”.

Pae White describes her work,

“Metafoil takes advantage of the captive gaze of the audience, introducing a foil, a false reflection, an illusion of depth, a novel typography that disrupts expectation and challenges perception. My work has attempted to subvert the viewer’s expected relationship to an everyday object, nudging them off balance, encouraging a deeper look. My goal is to cause viewers to stop and consider the bits and pieces of our lives that are most often overlooked, perhaps suggesting a more comprehensive reconsideration of the world around us, even to ask ourselves: ‘What is important to us?’ ‘What are we seeing?’ ‘What are we not seeing?’”

You can see more work by Pae White here.