Monthly Archives: September 2009

29 Sep

Sour: Nathan Gray & Co

Sour: Nathan Gray & Co

Sour is a film project directed by Nathan Gray, among other things a skater and designer. The idea behind the project is simple: people doing things they love with people they are not supposed to like.

 
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25 Sep

Capturing the snowflake: Wilson Alwyn Bentley 1865-1931

Capturing the snowflake: Wilson Alwyn Bentley 1865-1931

I am entranced by microscopic photographs by Wilson Bentley at the recent Paula Nadelstern exhibit. One is lucky to see even their form for a few moments until they melt in the heat of grasping fingers, but just one small snow crystal held up to the sun will reveal a formation uniquely orchestrated by the elements

 
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18 Sep

Jaq Belcher: concentration

Jaq Belcher: concentration

The focus for her is on the process of reduction and repetition, the manipulation of matter. This can be seen as a practice which allows, or requires, stillness. The process hones concentration and therefore the power of the mind through focus.

 
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18 Sep

Repair and Remake, forget recycling : Pioneers of change

Repair and Remake, forget recycling : Pioneers of change

… designer Lotte Dekker explains: “By widening and reshaping the crack,instead of denying it, the object gets a hole new character without losing its function. The crack becomes beautiful and deserves to be seen!”

 
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18 Sep

Painted & Co: fashioning the Treasure Island

Painted & Co: fashioning the Treasure Island

…a thorough research approach, with pure exploration of ideas and materials at the source. These are truly beautiful ideas that lie on the floors, hang from the light fittings, or cling to the walls of the exhibition space. The works are entirely free of commercial connection, the restraints of ‘end-product’ and market.

 
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13 Sep

Christien Meindertsma: Knitted Carpet

Christien Meindertsma: Knitted Carpet

Meindertsma’s work has also looked at the fibers Linen, Flax, Aran knitting, and objects at airports that are required as ‘checked baggage’. Her work leads one to look at products in a closer manner, seeing them either in a different light, a different scale, or even a pre-form of themselves.

 
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08 Sep

Ms & Mr: There there anxious future; and off to New Zealand

Ms & Mr: There there anxious future; and off to New Zealand

The works raise the question of what is reality past and what is current past, or, if you will, remembered past and future?

 
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05 Sep

Contemporary Folk: Paula Nadelstern & Co

Contemporary Folk: Paula Nadelstern & Co

Found materials and gathered matter is the construct of many a patch-worked textile as it is also with the ‘contents’ that create the patterns in a Kaleidoscope. It seems fitting that there is a dialogue between the two mediums, both operating on the same principle of playing with the ‘found’.

 
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01 Sep

Silk Ikats from central Asia

Silk Ikats from central Asia

The variance of tone in a dyed portion of yarn can be a beautiful thing in itself, but when interwoven and treated in various ways it can be transformed into a piece of visual poetry.

 
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