Monthly Archives: April 2010

Connecting to internals; Whitney Biennial 2010

Connecting to internals; Whitney Biennial 2010

The drawing crawls across the wall, as the visualisation builds, the linework is slightly schizophrenic; here focusing and ruminating for a while; there lacing loosely over unknown matter. And all the while the paper accommodates as required.

 

Bargello textiles: reductionism

Bargello textiles: reductionism

Simplicity of form in this fragment, …references a paring down of motifs to their geometric basics. That idea has proliferated in textile patterning not just since the 1920′s (Bauhaus and Art Deco), but certainly from the ‘Biedermeier’ era…

 

fancy vs reason

fancy vs reason

for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

 

Bargello textiles: red brocade

Bargello textiles: red brocade

Florentine textile collections, the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence.

 

Spider Orchid?: NY Botanical Gardens

Spider Orchid?: NY Botanical Gardens

it reminds me of the critically-endangered ‘Spider Orchid’, a species of orchid native to Australian

 

Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren

‘to create anything you had to believe in failure simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear’

 

Slipper Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

Slipper Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

The foliage around these orchids is rich, damp and green. Moss forests, waxy, waving leaves and miniature, curling fern-tendrils allude to a vast miniature world ready to be explored.

 

Butterfly Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

Butterfly Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

Another gem from the Orchid Show, New York Botanical Gardens. This is a Butterfly Orchid; Psychopsis Kalihi, native to Trinidad, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.