AARON HUEY | GASOLINE GARDENS

Aaron Huey’s series GASOLINE GARDENS addresses the topic of climate change through decorative wallpaper. The artwork, created with AI trained on his photographic archive, invites viewers to engage with transformed images of environmental crises in their everyday spaces.

Inspired by 18th-century tapestries, GASOLINE GARDENS references a past era of global transformation by depicting historical wallpaper patterns such as chinoiserie, with its idealized exotic landscapes, and Toile de Jouy, with its pastoral scenes. In 2024, Huey incorporates these decorative formats as text prompts in a model trained on his climate change photography archive. Colorful florals intermingle with spirals of smoke, industrial refineries, and diminishing forests, blurring the lines between aesthetic appreciation and ecological awareness.