Daily Poetics

I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold ...

Link: Frances Trombly » Biography .

"Frances Trombly uses trompe-l’oeil effects in her work to recreate mundane objects, making labor-intensive pieces through weaving, embroidery, cross stitch, and crochet. By recreating what is mass-produced she initiates an authority that is missing from the utilitarian original. Her objects exist in an environment where value lives, where value thrives, the gallery or museum. This contrast confronts the viewer, asking questions about labor, value, history, feminism, class, and the American way of life."

link via dear ada

All things come from nowhere! How vast, how invisible, no way to explain it!

Link: You are about to enter journal heaven.
Shedding Light

"Shedding Light explores the book as a tactile object in the extreme. Taking away the book’s usual visual narrative clues, the seeing reader is left with little traditional visual information with which to decode the presented ‘text’, but instead is faced with a Braille text implicitly inviting them to feel the narrative. A ‘key’ is provided in the form of a visual Braille alphabet card to assist readers who are curious to know what is hidden from view.

The solution to for the seeing reader is to allow light to be cast upon and through the page and in so doing illuminate a hidden text that is printed on the underside of the page that deciphers the Braille. Some reader, of course, may never discover this." -jh

Title Quote: Chuang Tzu

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Link: tatsuya maemura objectos.

"a part of thing where its used everyday is getting older faster.and its changing the color,form and texture is the history of how he is treating on.it occurs only between he and things."

via pan-dan

               

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume....

Link: Mickey Smith Artist + Photographer.

 

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. -T.S.Eliot

 

"Volume is an ongoing project documenting bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Most of these publications are being replaced by their online counterparts, and in many cases the printed versions are no longer bound. Several titles photographed in the process of this project have been removed from the stacks due to space and budget constraints. Searching endless rows of these utilitarian texts, I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and tenuousness of printed works as they fade from public consciousness.

The act of hunting for and photographing these objects is fundamental to my process. I do not touch, light, or manipulate the books and words – preferring to document them as found in the stacks, created by the librarian, and positioned by the last unknown reader.

The irony and graphic quality of repeating titles fascinate and draw, no matter how mundane, from known to obscure, from Vogue to Blood. I focus on simple, provocative titles that transcend the spines on which they appear.

Note: Collocation is defined as "the act or result of placing or arranging together, specifically: a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements (as words)." -Mickey Smith

Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Link: tatsuya maemura objectos.

"a bannister which is connecting two spaces between.a bannister which is connecting someone in two spaces between.a bannister which is deriving a whisper and laugher."

Title Quote: Buddha

You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

Link: Review of Solutions for Better by Robyn Ho.

"Kiko Gianocca's ‘Sand to Wear' and ‘Dirty Hands' further extend the definition of the typology of jewellery. Each work consists of multiple small clear plastic envelopes containing an identical illustration and a portion of either sand or dirt. The illustrations serve as instructional cartoons that suggest the usage of the materials that allude rather than dictate, allowing a level of participant interpretation. This need for audience interpretation is made even more important due to the materials utilised. Jewellery is conventionally considered to be an object of beauty and desire, yet Gianocca questions that view with the use of sand and dirt, substances that are normally viewed as unsightly nuisances. However, it seems that the selection of these particular materials was chosen deliberately. Both sand and dirt can have powerful tactile ability to evoke nostalgic memories. These works then become objects of beauty and desire through its interaction with their audience, of the participant making it their own and linking themselves to a previous self of a pleasant time and space." -from site

Title Quote; William Blake

Four vital functions, as basic as the four elements: sexuality, sociality, ideation and glory.

Link: Gallery 415 |Adriana Marmorek.

"Adriana Marmorek uses a large array of mediums -- she creates sculptures in bronze, aluminum and glass, but also uses installations with furniture, video and flowing fabrics to express herself. Despite the variety of materials and techniques, her work is a constant construction, deconstruction and determination of an identity around female desire and pleasure." -Gallery 415

Title Quote: Jean Baudrillard

To affirm pleasure, is to affirm life in its deepest purposes, to value the intimate connections we make, the moments of ecstacy we experience. When we claim our sacred right to pleasure, we are honoring life in its variety, diversity, its endless arrangements and rearrangements. We are acknowledging our participation in the deepest erotic purposes of the universe.

-Starhawk

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

Link: Book Works - Globexpander by Paul Etienne Lincoln.

Globexpander
by Paul Etienne Lincoln (1998)

"The Globexpander is a mechanism, devised by Paul Lincoln, that forms a central role in the performance of 'The World and Its Inhabitants'. Published in an edition of 24, each number of the edition has been assigned a character from 'The World and Its Inhabitants'.

The mechanism - which is housed in a beautifully made, custom-built box that opens out to reveal the contents - is an intricate and delicate device that, through an elaborate and complex ritual enables balloons to be expanded by means of 'humour' contained in small canisters. As each balloon is fully expanded, names relating to 'The World and Its Inhabitants' are revealed and an illusion of the World is formed."

Title Quote: Richard Owen Cambridge

Where'er I roam, whatever reallms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee; Still...turns, with ceaseless pain, and drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Link:  NinetteVanKamp < TextileFutures < TWiki.

"Throughout the ages, in the West, as well as in various other cultures around the world, women have always been encouraged to achieve an unrealistic state of 'ideal' beauty even in cases where it has been detrimental to their health. This is apparent in more extreme examples like the Victorian corset and Chinese foot binding. Women, it seems, are willing to suffer for the sake of beauty. Ninette is interested in conveying this relationship through textiles, looking at seams and mark makings on the body in particular."

In my beginning is my end.

Link: index.

"The project 'Come Rain or Shine' is comprised of two products; walls and floors in wood, and tiles of felt in plaster or concrete.

They both work in conjunction with the natural elements - allowing nature itself to bring pattern and decoration to exterior or interior surfaces.

Through employing the effects of nature as a means to mark a surface, the potential for the natural elements is facilitated to play a part in creating decoration - this results in organic embellishment without harm to the environment.

This work lends itself both to exterior walls where they have exposure to the outdoors enabling the patterns to evolve over time, or pre-weathered decorative surfaces as a feature within the interior."

Title Quote: TS Eliot