Applying a variation of my Hounded Toile to an armchair, a family heirloom, grounds the pattern in my own history and imagines a domestic space which asks questions instead of just fading into the background. Upon first glance the Hounded Toile patterns of the curtains and armchair are the same; scrutiny reveals that the overlapping curtains each have different dominant prints: the Golden Retriever toile on the chiffon, the Beagle toile on the silk habotai, with the overlapping pieces of each fabric revealing the third print with Min, the conceptual and literal combination of Golden Retriever and Beagle. The silk habotai acts as an opaque backdrop to the sheerness of the chiffon, allowing the patterned layers to merge and blend with each other. The toile of the armchair blends the imagery from the curtains, Golden Retrievers intermixed with Beagles intermixed with Min.
