I was recently on the Little Paper Planes website, wishing that it was an LA based project and that everyone involved was local because it’s such a cool something. Unfortunately it is not and it is instead very San Francisco in the sense that it is supporting its own Northern California, alternative lifestyle. Everything they carry is wonderful and varied—and there is even a connection to Los Angeles: we found the work of LA based Ashley Thayer mixed in with their inventory. We were so happy that we had some sort of representation in the store: we totally had to share.
Thayer is an artist who works in multiple mediums, all of which have an acknowledgement and reference to the idea of a quilt. She paints them, she makes dye projects with them, she prints them, and she even makes actual quilts too. Her work obviously has a new/old feeling to them as they use classic, geometric quilt patterns to spin out into various new topics like color variance through dying, mixing patterns, tie-dye, hyper-color, and so much more: her quilts and work based on quilts carry an incredible history to them that are as beautiful as they are visually captivating. Their left of center leanings when she breaks your preconceived notions of quilting make them all the more attractive, too.
She currently has a few exclusive prints for sale at Little Paper Planes and she totally sells herself via storefront Maricolous. Her work is wild and beautiful and you may actually find them familiar as Otherwild sells a few pieces of hers. You can even see a cool little video they made on her here. While we may not have our own Little Paper Planes, we’re glad that Thayer is representing LA by being one of the few (and maybe the only) LA designer in that cool shop. Get more on her quilted, fabulous works here.