The Velvet Thatch Imagined
It all started with a simple, whimsical idea: a tiny English cottage — complete with a thatched roof , timber-framed charm, and a single window — built on the back of a utility trailer. It was quaint, oddly mobile, and ripe with storytelling potential. The structure itself already felt like a contradiction — rustic yet transportable, rooted in history yet untethered. That tension sparked a question: how would this odd little cottage look if it were filtered through the eyes of different artists, styles, and movements? Rather than sticking with realism, I wanted to explore the extremes — the way color, structure, symbolism, and emotion could completely reshape a single object. So I chose five art styles with distinct voices: the flowing elegance of Art Nouveau, the concrete honesty of Brutalism, the dreamy nostalgia of Vaporwave, the wild color of Fauvism, and the shadowy mood of Gothic Romanticism. Each required its own shift in perspective. For example, in Brutalism, the thatch...