Author: RJ

Inspiring words from theorist, artist, poet and author Ruskin, who once said “…give me some mud off a city crossing,…ochre out of a gravel pit..a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust…” This is a journal about grass roots in inspiration, the act of making things and the heritage behind experience. It is about contibutions from the worlds of art, textiles, architecture, design, fashion, literature that surround us.

The author of this blog is an artist in the fields of textiles. Her background and work encompass drawing, painting, print-making, fashion, interiors and illustration.Blog on art, design, architecture, textiles, fashion.

12 Mar

Jacob Hashimoto: Armory Show 2010

Jacob Hashimoto: Armory Show 2010

Constructed with techniques used for handcrafting kites, they are made from bamboo, natural-tone rice and silk papers. These are dipped in acrylic polymer and then strung together.

 
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08 Mar

Daniel Arsham: Animal Architecture, Armory Show 2010

Daniel Arsham: Animal Architecture, Armory Show 2010

In the world at present ‘a sense of truth and the real’ seems to be more the reality than reality itself. The real world is …

 
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24 Feb

Hotel de Ville égalité

Hotel de Ville égalité

The carousel was covered in shambly rope netting. There were sections of scaffolding piled around. There were children learning to ice-skate.

 
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13 Feb

FIT treasures

FIT treasures

Looking for inspiration? The Museum at FIT has many treasures to wet the appetite, both on display and in it’s vaults. Here’s a Lace manufacturer’s sample …

 
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11 Feb

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

A master of articulation, cut, form, accessory, pattern, colour, shape, but also of dark poetry, mystique, boundless lands and danger.

 
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10 Feb

Irma Boom; ‘kindle’ for the artworld

Irma Boom; ‘kindle’ for the artworld

Fancy a Picasso and Mattise in barcode?

 
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08 Feb

The Siège Veryround Chair: Louise Campbell

The Siège Veryround Chair: Louise Campbell

Louise Campbell … her studio’s 3 firm rules: Always start from scratch; be sure there’s a good reason for every decision made; and dare to be different!

 
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07 Feb

Galleria degli Uffizi

Galleria degli Uffizi

in the grotesque style

 
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06 Feb

the grotesques

the grotesques

While recently swooning in Florence I couldn’t keep my eyes from the ceilings. In the Pallazo Vecchio the entrance court is covered in the most heavenly and hellish grotesques.

 
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28 Jan

elles@centrepompidou and Manuelle Gautrand’s Citroën

elles@centrepompidou and Manuelle Gautrand’s Citroën

The internal workings can be seen through ordered transparent arrows that work their way up the wall, over the buildings ceiling and down the other side. The logo climbs the mountain of the building and comes out transformed yet the same on the other side.

 
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