When artist Jacob Hashimoto was approached by textile manufacturer Maharam about a collaboration more than a decade ago, he admits to “dropping the ball”.
It’s not that Hashimoto didn’t go on to work with Maharam – he created two installations for the company, Silent Rhythm (2011) and The Long Passage Towards Night (2012), both of which are now available as photographic wall coverings – but the possibility of designing a woven textile drifted. “It seemed like a missed opportunity for a long time, but I really didn’t have the [graphic] language to do this back then,” he shrugs.