Cactus Bearer (Keyon Monte)
CACTUS BEARER (Self Portrait)
2024
Mixed Media
Jacquard woven blanket with hand beaded embellishments
60X80 inch blanket.
$1500
Moroccan influence meets desert psychedelia, where Van Gogh's turbulent skies sweep across a landscape of umber and rose. The artist appears as a sentinel, with a shoulder-mounted cactus defying gravity against pink horizons. Here, the resilient desert flora breaks free from earthly constraints, speaking to transformation and growth in challenging spaces. The work navigates between structured pattern and wilderness, while floating succulents punctuate the warm air like divine interruptions in the natural order - a meditation on adaptation and personal evolution. MONTÉLUCO Studios
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JANGURU explores an endemic vision of Black masculinity through divine presence. The series reimagines power without aggression, strength through grace, anchored by its namesake piece depicting a man in serene repose with a tiger. Here, classical portraiture dissolves into primal mark-making, where delicate facial detail contrasts with raw, palette-knife backgrounds. Each piece in the collection presents Black figures in moments of divine recognition - not as subjects of nature but as its equal inheritors. In translating these digital paintings into jacquard-woven textiles, I discovered a new dialogue between pixel and thread, between screen and cloth. Each digital brushstroke now finds physical form through the weaver's grid, creating a matrix where technology meets ancient craft. The subsequent act of embroidering into these woven images becomes a meditation on touch and time - each stitch both accepting and challenging the mechanical precision beneath it. Starting the piece in the world of modern photography but then giving it back to the earth with craftsmanship as old as any civilization. These pieces explore what happens when the coolness of digital art meets the warmth of human touch. The jacquard loom provides a foundation that my hand then questions, embellishes, and celebrates through embroidery. Every thread I pull through the fabric echoes the original digital gestures while adding new layers of intention and accident. In this transformation, the tension between precision and wildness finds new life in textile form, as mechanical weave opens doors for intimate manipulation.
CACTUS BEARER (Self Portrait)
2024
Mixed Media
Jacquard woven blanket with hand beaded embellishments
60X80 inch blanket.
$1500
Moroccan influence meets desert psychedelia, where Van Gogh's turbulent skies sweep across a landscape of umber and rose. The artist appears as a sentinel, with a shoulder-mounted cactus defying gravity against pink horizons. Here, the resilient desert flora breaks free from earthly constraints, speaking to transformation and growth in challenging spaces. The work navigates between structured pattern and wilderness, while floating succulents punctuate the warm air like divine interruptions in the natural order - a meditation on adaptation and personal evolution. MONTÉLUCO Studios
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JANGURU explores an endemic vision of Black masculinity through divine presence. The series reimagines power without aggression, strength through grace, anchored by its namesake piece depicting a man in serene repose with a tiger. Here, classical portraiture dissolves into primal mark-making, where delicate facial detail contrasts with raw, palette-knife backgrounds. Each piece in the collection presents Black figures in moments of divine recognition - not as subjects of nature but as its equal inheritors. In translating these digital paintings into jacquard-woven textiles, I discovered a new dialogue between pixel and thread, between screen and cloth. Each digital brushstroke now finds physical form through the weaver's grid, creating a matrix where technology meets ancient craft. The subsequent act of embroidering into these woven images becomes a meditation on touch and time - each stitch both accepting and challenging the mechanical precision beneath it. Starting the piece in the world of modern photography but then giving it back to the earth with craftsmanship as old as any civilization. These pieces explore what happens when the coolness of digital art meets the warmth of human touch. The jacquard loom provides a foundation that my hand then questions, embellishes, and celebrates through embroidery. Every thread I pull through the fabric echoes the original digital gestures while adding new layers of intention and accident. In this transformation, the tension between precision and wildness finds new life in textile form, as mechanical weave opens doors for intimate manipulation.
CACTUS BEARER (Self Portrait)
2024
Mixed Media
Jacquard woven blanket with hand beaded embellishments
60X80 inch blanket.
$1500
Moroccan influence meets desert psychedelia, where Van Gogh's turbulent skies sweep across a landscape of umber and rose. The artist appears as a sentinel, with a shoulder-mounted cactus defying gravity against pink horizons. Here, the resilient desert flora breaks free from earthly constraints, speaking to transformation and growth in challenging spaces. The work navigates between structured pattern and wilderness, while floating succulents punctuate the warm air like divine interruptions in the natural order - a meditation on adaptation and personal evolution. MONTÉLUCO Studios
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JANGURU explores an endemic vision of Black masculinity through divine presence. The series reimagines power without aggression, strength through grace, anchored by its namesake piece depicting a man in serene repose with a tiger. Here, classical portraiture dissolves into primal mark-making, where delicate facial detail contrasts with raw, palette-knife backgrounds. Each piece in the collection presents Black figures in moments of divine recognition - not as subjects of nature but as its equal inheritors. In translating these digital paintings into jacquard-woven textiles, I discovered a new dialogue between pixel and thread, between screen and cloth. Each digital brushstroke now finds physical form through the weaver's grid, creating a matrix where technology meets ancient craft. The subsequent act of embroidering into these woven images becomes a meditation on touch and time - each stitch both accepting and challenging the mechanical precision beneath it. Starting the piece in the world of modern photography but then giving it back to the earth with craftsmanship as old as any civilization. These pieces explore what happens when the coolness of digital art meets the warmth of human touch. The jacquard loom provides a foundation that my hand then questions, embellishes, and celebrates through embroidery. Every thread I pull through the fabric echoes the original digital gestures while adding new layers of intention and accident. In this transformation, the tension between precision and wildness finds new life in textile form, as mechanical weave opens doors for intimate manipulation.