Jason Seife’s Hand-painted Persian Carpets

WORDS Michaela Stehr IMAGES via designboom.com

Miami-based artist Jason Seife paints the patterns of traditional Persian carpets onto canvas.

Using a mixture of ink and acrylic, he transforms these original works into something modern, reinventing and interpreting historical movements.

These incredibly detailed paintings portray the symbolism of geometric shapes, flora and graphic imagery used in the original carpets, with a few contemporary adaptations thrown in to convey Seife’s emotional state while painting.

Seife was diagnosed as colourblind as a child and adds unconventional colours to his Persian carpet paintings, not usually associated with the tapestries.

See more of his work on Instagram.