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The textures shown in these photographs are from a wide variety of objects
and have nothing to do with textures in the sense of the surfaces of
textiles. They include rusty metal, concrete paving, wood chippings, wall
cladding, rendered walls, metal profiles, wooden fencing and even the mesh
of netting. Although all quite different and not designed to be particularly
pleasing, they have one element in common: they form a pattern, which the
Oxford dictionary defines as “an arrangement or sequence regularly found in
comparable objects or events.” Perhaps in this case it should be described
as elements which repeat themselves with some regularity on the surface of
any material. Whatever the description, a textured or patterned surface is
pleasing to the eye – a blank surface is totally boring and one of the
reasons why wallpaper was invented. |
