Tuesday 22 May 2012
Tuesday 3 April 2012
Tuesday 27 March 2012
20.3.2012
A sunny day in Munich.
A peek into the kiln: flasks are ready.
Casting copper. Be careful, wear leather shoes, apron, gloves.
From kiln to vacuum, from crucible to vacuum, then quench.
Then clean.
Playing with wax; from 2D to 3D, make min. 30 models – work fast.
Red wax, black wax, blue wax, pink wax, green wax.
Cast bronze.
(while you wait, make a two-part mould with plaster to make hollow wax forms)
Cast shibuichi.
(make the other part of the mould)
Keep playing with wax.
Look, talk, walk, galerie, galerie (well, bookshop), Akademie.
Beer, food.
A nice day.
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Thursday 8 March 2012
Robo-Charge by Shih Yun Yeo
Robo-Charge@Kinetica Art Fair London 2012 from shih yun yeo on Vimeo.
Shih Yun attaches bristle brushes to small robots and lets them draw motifs on the paper. The strokes are dictated by rules she made up and by using the element of chance from a dice.
Saturday 25 February 2012
Saturday 18 February 2012
Transformation
One form-17 different materials! sounds easier than it actually is. Still everybody came up with different ideas. From natural material to completely industrial. Next step: choose your favourite and transform it.
So the rest of the day was about cutting, burning, sewing and many other options. That's how you get many other things out of just one.
Thursday 9 February 2012
With the sheet of paper under the table, upside down and without seeing , we were drawing some objects which were placed on the table. After we chose the two most interesting, beautiful oder precis drawings. Out of the 16 trials of different materials we took the most to work with and with that and one of those drawings we created a jewellery piece in only 3 hours.
I couldnt believe that Peters words :“I hope in the end you start to like the material“ will become true, but it was really incredible to see how every material can be transformed. When you put your effort in it and go on working you can find ways you would never have thought that they exist.
Monday, 31 January 2012
Today’s lesson was about materials experimentations
and working and drawing restrictions. This made me think about some important questions
you’d better ask yourself while you are working with a new material or making a
new piece:
1.
Are you working with or against the
material?
2.
If you never break rules, will you
ever discover something new?
3.
Is it possible to work with no rules
at all?
4.
Are you making a fast, simple and
repeatable piece or a more complicated, unique one?
5.
Are you using a certain material for
conceptual or esthetical reasons?
6.
Do you want to hide or to show the
material?
7.
What happens if you try to overcome
your physical limits while you are working?
8.
Which are the criteria to judge a
piece?
Sometimes
questions are more useful than answers.
Today was the first day of our one-year project with Peter, who as we were told will confuse us, a lot.
We started by talking about basic geometry and different shapes, but most importantly about lines. One would think that it would be quite simple to describe sonething as common as a line, but we all found out pretty soon that it is actually quite difficult.
One of our first tasks was to go out and take pictures of various lines, in order to built objects which would project shadows in form of our found lines.
I thought it was very interesting to have to think the other way around. Insted of just finding out what the shadow of an object is, building one that will have the shadow you want it to have... (indeed, very confusing)
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Wednesday: La Specola
Shakudo, mokume-gane, layers, unusual wedding rings, lipstick, women's independence, La Specola, museum rules, old fashion, drawings, drawings, drawings... euplectella aspergillum, cochlicopa lubrica, insects, tiny perfection, sternocera aequisignata, iridescent, dimorphism, extatoso matiratum, phasmatodea, omotteri memracidi (insects or thorns?!), farfallafoglia, strange appendixes, encope emarginata, bear juggler, fennec fox (...and his big termoragultory ears), baleen, upupa (funny crest!), aye-aye, uccello tessitore, colors explosion, uccello parasole, wax, Clemente Susini, artery of head and neck (seems to coral!!) exposed organs, pearls string, foetus, Gaetano Zumbo, draw the death, anatomy, make a piece of jewellery following the rules....don't think too much...do it!
Be Present. 2/2/2012
Whenever we set a goal, we think we are on the right track to it, but more often than not something appears and disrupt the plan. My fashion instructor used to nag at us during the last month before collection deadline, "Always expect the unexpected, even simple things like crossing the road, do not assume drivers are looking out for you, you have to be alert." It was reiterate this week.
In my opinion, sticking to a plan is a good thing, but following it in the most precise and straightest line is a dumb thing. Yes, you'll achieve the goal faster, however you'll most likely miss the plenty of unforeseen paths that might lead you somewhere else, which might improve your final creation to a whole new level. You'll get what you planned, but not what it could have been. Which is a pity.
Now I share with you a famous quote by a Zen Master,
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."
-Shunryn Suzuki
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Attack of the killer oranges
A short film about lines, circles and disruption.
By Anna, Enrica, Lavina and Nur.
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Tuesday, 31st January 2012
Three inches golden lotus - pain and body modification (of others) as a status symbol.
Khoom Fay - fairies of the sky
Kimchi Jeon - chop chop chop, cheeee, cheeka cheeka
Insultation foam – plastic- the great Pacific garbage patch
Disruptions! They happen.
Polystyrene.
Textiles. Fabric made from milk.
Matthew Barney: Drawing restraint 9, Cremaster. Self imposed rules. Restrictions. Ceremonies (rules you follow even if you don't understand them)
Rules, order, chaos and movies: circles, lines and disruptions; disturbance, friction and restraint.
Movies:
Attack of the killer oranges
Enzo
The winner
Make up rules
and then swap them
Calvinball!
Monday 30 January 2012
The hidden mother
‘This was a practice where the mother, often disguised or hiding, often under a spread, holds her baby tightly for the photographer to insure a sharply focused image.’
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/the-invisible-mother/
http://saint-lucy.com/one-picture-one-paragraph/melinda-barlow/
Saturday 28 January 2012
Cabbage flowers
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