Daily Poetics

... We imprint intimacy in the songs, give them a narrative separate from and parallel to what the author's intent was. In that way, we make the songs symbolic of our own relationships.

Link: Dezeen » Blog Archive » Tableware by Kathryn Hinton.

"I am creating diverse collections of flatware which translate the different aspects of my concept. The pieces have an individual aesthetic and change into new forms when they playfully interact with each other.

The pieces come together through the lettering shown on the tines of the fork and where it has been, leaving a mark. Another concept can be seen through the exhausted cutlery which flops over a plate or surface to interact with the tableware.

In the Exhausted range, the utensils take the form of the tableware they fall on. The pieces are exhausted by constant treatment and use.

The non sharing bowl is a double bowl with two forks that have ‘MINE’ in different fonts on the end of the tines. The bowls have ‘MINE’ in the two fonts etched randomly around to encourage competitive behavior.

The forked bowl incorporates the same idea but different lettering to show the forks function and where it has been leaving its mark.

The personal fork has my initials on as an example of a personal fork for hallmarking your food. I have done this with the intention that people can commission their own initials"

Title Quote: Howard Kramer

 

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

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

Love Inside ...

Link: Etsy :: ColleenBaran :: The Love Inside No.5 - Made to order in your size.

"Ring individually handmade of sterling silver and mylar paper that can be cut but not torn. Bold and subtle and brave declarations of love to be hidden within."

... No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield; Ask me no more.

Link: EVE Design - Eva Bruggmann.     liebesring flame

"the love rings flame bear form and function of a ball bearings. the balls spell the words I LOVE YOU in braille writing and can be felt on the in or outside. these rings in braille writing can be read by the visually handicapped and blind, however the sighted cannot read it and are in the same passion of blind love. for the sighted this is a new language, not a visual one."

Title Quote: Tennyson

 

It may be said that evey creative achievement or innovative insight is a philosophical act, and that the pursuit of such achievements and insights, practiced continuously and single heartedly, turns the pursuer into a kind of philosopher.

Link: Especially_For_You.MGX.

About Especially_For_You.MGX

"That architect Amanda Levete’s chromed bowl resembles a piece of mangled scrap metal—or perhaps a necklace one would find in the MoMA store—is part of its intrigue: The private, handwritten message “this is designed especially by me for you with love” has been expanded into a 3-D form that hides its meaning from everyone but its owner. Levete offered the design to Materialise MGX because the complex twists of each letter and the gaps they create would otherwise be murderous to realize, even by hand. “Especially For You is completely freeform, without any geometric logic,” Levete says. She ups the thematic ante by proposing the bowl be put to very private use as a bedside condom holder."

Title Quote: Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tounge.

Link: Family Tree Jewelry | Sarah Van Gameren.

title quote: rostand

"In the beginning there was my own family tree.
My mother gave me one part of it. For years the scraps of paper had been pressed between the pages of an old photograph album.
The other part I received from my grandparents. With the help of some old documents and photographs they tried to recall the names of their nephews and nieces, uncles and aunts.

I wondered if my genealogical research would solve some mysteries. Is the nature of my being a result of the various branches of my family tree that ultimately come together in my own being?
Is the source of our potential in life hidden behind the leaves of this tree? Can my tree tell me how far my talent reaches?
After I completed my own family tree, I stitched all the names of my ancestors on a handkerchief, blew my nose, and that was that.

Then there is Runa, 17 years old. A beautiful and smart girl with many talents. She gave me her genealogical tree to research and in return I made her a necklace. The collier is inspired on the ‘name-jewel’ that girls of her age tend to wear. The piece of jewelry I made for her has every single name of her family members. From her ancestors on her breast to her close family embracing her neck. She wears the collier like a genetic palette."

-Sarah van Gameren 2004

via sub studio

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

Pauline Barendse explores, invents and communicates through jewels..

"A Different Story…….

Experiences become stories, stories become shapes
Eventually the shapes will be reformed to jewellery; small objects to wear.
Small objects that will have an unconventional finish and sometimes unconventional materials.
A theme can be a start of collection like the collections: "Stains", "Braille"and"Memory Keepers"….
Watch, understand and smile."

Braille Signet Ring

Title Quote: DH Lawrence

We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Link: Invisible Book | Apologies.

"Secrets is a book that came to me when I was ready for it—but not one minute sooner.

In bookmaking, there is always a struggle to fit the concept, the design and the content together. There was no such struggle with Secrets; it flowed painlessly from day one.

    Secrets began as a result of my unwillingness to write in a pristine and empty book I had just made. Its pages were beautiful in their blankness—leaving pencil marks would violate them.

How to resolve this conflict? The answer was literally clear: invisible writing! I slept on the thought. By the next morning it was obvious to me that the only content worthy of the book and the concealed ink would be words that could not be said out loud...." -Johanna Rogers

Quote: Robert Frost

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

Link: Marian Bantjes: All Purpose Jeans.

I imagined guys (they’re men’s jeans) standing at the bar with the command “You Will” on their pockets. Or the question “Will You” or simply “Miss Me” as they walk out the door.

Quote: Lawrence Block