Ms. Spade, at center, shown cradling her Maltese, Henry, has designed a pieced-canvas duvet, $450 (right), with the broad stripes of a car coat she designed a few seasons ago.
He points to one painting and shows how a vertical line from top to bottom is the seam that happened to be in the piece of canvas tarpaulin he'd found in a hardware store and decided to use instead of a fine artist's canvas.
It was as heavy as a piece of canvas.
A smooth piece of canvas turned into richly textured fabric.
"What makes some oil on a piece of canvas worth $130m?
"Bonnard painted on a piece of canvas, but we don't see that, or the wood frame," Libeskind said.
An early work consists of two piles of cotton thread produced by unraveling a piece of canvas.
A relief, "#1 Mojo," looks almost like a painting; it is a piece of canvas on which various objects, including wool, leather, bone, tin and gourds, are hung.
The process represents a kind of spiritual rebirth – a radical thinning out of bodily substance – and it can only take place on this square piece of canvas.
Once he has decided on a spot, he goes there every day, weather permitting, with a piece of canvas stapled to a board, and he paints until the light has changed.
