Tide

We are thrilled to collaborate with Atlanta-based painter Michelle Armas, whose Totem series has made her one of the most collected abstract artists working in the American South. Each totem is a vertical stack of rounded, irregular forms built up in oil, ink, and dye on raw canvas, where no two shapes carry the same weight, texture, or charge. The forms bleed, bloom, and resist each other. Color does the structural work. We have translated four of these paintings into wallpaper, preserving the raw canvas ground and Armas's hand at full scale.

A cool, considered palette of indigo, teal, periwinkle, celadon, and white moves in loose vertical columns across a raw linen ground. Each form in Tide carries its own internal logic: some cellular, some luminous, some dense as wet ink. The overall effect reads somewhere between a scientific specimen board and deep water.