Ashlee’s senior focus is inspired by the idea of what home and family means to her. Also her love of the world around her, what the look of the world has in hold. When first working on this collection she based her work on the past of her childhood and started to think about what will everything look like in a couple of decades from now. She quick was inspired by the distorted reality and the natural world and making it into something completely unrecognizable. Due to the challenge of not knowing what the world will come to and what it will look like.

1. Ashlee Scalese
2018

2. Bio
At Savannah College of Art and Design I pursued
a BFA in textile design. When creating work, the first
thing that goes into my work is collage. It helps get a
certain idea from mind to paper. To further help continue
with my passion in textile world, through college my main
inspiration is mostly texture, I believe that texture is
everything in this field and that its something that you
can feel while also see.

3. Artist Statement
Ashlee’s senior focus is inspired by the idea of
what home and family means to her. Also her love
of the world around her, what the look of the world
has in hold. When first working on this
collection she based her work on the past of her
childhood and started to think about what will everything
look like in a couple of decades from now. She quick was
inspired by the distorted reality and the natural world and
making it into something completely
unrecognizable. Due to the challenge of not knowing
what the world will come to and what it will look
like.

4. Home is where my
crazy is!

5. All of the manipulation that went into this acrylic
plastic piece describes. My Dad’s side of the family
without using words.
Lovable but dysfunctional
Acrylic plastic
18x18

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Home

10. Home is where the heart is they say. Well for me, my heart is in
two places at once. One is in Boston which is a place that grew
up in. While the other is Savannah which is a place where my
mental mind grew into what I like to believe the person I am
today with out both of these place I not sure where I would be.
Home
Laser cut Plastic, Leather, Demni,
Cotton and rasterisd paper
19x 24

12. Roots

13. When I think about my cultural roots, I think about Sunday
dinner at my grandmother Rose’s house, who is my mother’s
mother. She was a strong Italian American women that was the
center of our families world. Cooking was one of her passions
and Sundays were the days when everyone could get together,
to enjoy food and one another. Thats why she my inspiration for
these dish towels
Roots
Four Fabric Printed Linen
16.5x24

16. Futurist Eyes

18. To convey the future from my point of view, I believe the world is
going to be taken over my technology and in so many ways its
going to be part of who we are as humans, which means tech may
be part of are actual body or even minds.
Futurist Eyes
Surface Deisgn
13.5x13.5 main design
6.75x 6.75 cordent and textures

20. Melting Flowers

21. When think about natural things like flowers, from many
decades from know do you think that they will still be a
thing. My inspiration is that they will but be completely
different from todays metal and computer based
Melting Flowers
35x33
Fabric Printed on Poly
Stain

24. The Coding of Life

26. When trying to understand technology one of the first things
that come to mind was coding. Coding is made up of every
computer program that there is. Again I question myself that
are we going to end up just being computers and leave our
human forms behind?
The Coding of life
14x17
Laser Cut

28. Distorted City

31. Distored City
Four 5x5
Double Cloth Weaving
Have you ever looked off the edge of a building in
a city, and have it give you that perspective of how
small everything looks? Seeing all the colors that
the city give off at night or when cars are driving
by with their lights on, this is the inspiration
behind these weavings

32. Dark Noise

34. These pieces are inspired by old television that have antennas that
need to be adjusted due to the static and able to see the whats on the
T.V clearly.
Dark Noise
44x30 weaving
Designed by Ashlee Scales and outsourced
Jacquard weaving from Wovns

36. Hidden Emotions

37. This collection of rompers pattern adaptation by Jalena Webster. Patterns
designed by Ashlee Scalese is project inspired by camouflaging your feelings and
keepinge motions hidden in plain sight.

40. Oh Honey
Over Shot Patterns
18x18
Warp Painted
Cotton and Wool

42. Oh Honey
23x46
Honey Comb Weaving
Cotton and Wool

44. Place Mat

46. Place Matt’s
Three
12x17
Deflective Double Weave
Cotton

48. Acknowledgement
Photography - Oscar Mazzei
Collaborator - Jalena Webster
Models- Catherine Hug and Sam Lotko