Not exact matches
The front fenders and part of the front facsia are coated in body filler and duct tape,
then sprayed with
flat black paint.
The artist Christopher Chiappa has always loved Swiss cheese, so when he was recently in a bout of traveling he would stop in delis wherever he was and order slices of it, place them down on pieces of paper, spray
paint them
black, scan the results, and
then use a waterjet cutter to recreate the
flat shapes, holes and all, in powdery yellow aluminum.
The productive tensions between an abstract expressionist engagement with surface,
paint, and gesture and a more decisive shift into the ambiguous terrain between
painting, collage, and assemblage find their fullest expression in Untitled [
black painting with portal form], specifically in the way the composition is structured around (and
then decisively proceeds from) a tonal, monochromatic center: a
flat, inky, double - truck sheet of newspaper.
I would spray
paint the cover for the air return
flat black and cover the rest of the wall under the mantel with chalkboard wallpaper and
then add a screen like this or a similar one - http://www.bellacor.com/productdetail/spi-home-33433-scroll-fireplace-screen-615659.htm.
For my DIY, I removed all of the raffia
then painted all of the pieces with
flat black spray
paint,