Today is National Corduroy Day!
The Face is known to wear corduroy in reality, so eventually the obvious question had to be asked: why merely wear corduroy when you can become it?
CORDUROY takes The Face and rebuilds it in ridges, seams, wale, stitching, and fabric. MidJourney is particularly good at making imaginary materials feel almost touchable, and its ability to produce convincing texture with slight variations in style makes corduroy an unusually satisfying material for The Face. Some are tailored. Some are worn. Some feel like upholstery. Some look as though they may once have been a very respectable pair of trousers.
The gallery itself follows the material. A dark field of corduroy sits behind smaller sewn fabric frames, with the images arranged neatly but allowed to keep their individual proportions. The stitching is restrained, the borders are thin, and there is enough space between each work to let the ridges breathe. Even the background can be swapped for another piece of fabric, because apparently The Face now has a textile department.
There is something pleasingly circular about using one of The Face's real-world habits as the material for its digital incarnation.
Long live the wale.