Wallwork (Nick Cave: Sojourn), 2013

4 color digitally printed vinyl
Denver Art Museum

Nick Cave: Sojourn is a multi-sensory, immersive installation that transports visitors through a magical world of imagination. And to begin this experience, Faust collaborated with the artist on a title wall to set the stage. This aesthetic translated to multiple marketing materials, a 180-page book, limited-edition print, as well as a family-oriented interactive exhibit titled “Second Skin” where kids can pattern their own “suits” from felt cutout shapes on a floor-to-ceiling yellow felt wall. Housed in the Precourt Gallery of the Denver Art Museum, Faust’s collaborative installation with Cave is the perfect hand’s on experience to follow his immersive exhibition. The room itself is a visual treat from the kaleidoscopic wallpaper to the to the pixelated FLOR-covering, but it’s the child-sized, three-dimensional forms and floor to ceiling felt wall intended to be embellished by little hands that brings the space to life. Inspired by analog grade-school activities, troughs full of colorful felt cutouts can be patterned, felt to felt, on the forms and wall so that visitors can imagine, realize and then redo their own creations over and over.