Daily Poetics

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Link: Somersaults Life Archives.

Somersaults™ Life Archives
your life – full circle

"The genuine little details of everyday experiences when collected and curated add up to the eternal essence of our loved ones’ lives. Hand-me-down moments with the click of a shutter become frozen in time and our hearts. Sand between our toes. Tears of joy at the alter. That certain aroma from the back seat three days into the trip. The impossibly soft strip of satin on that tiny blanket. Fresh cut grass filling our every breath. The nervous first kiss and lingering last dance. Our dreams, loves, fears, triumphs and defeats captured in sights, sounds and words to be relived for generations. Somersaults™ Life Archives collects and protects all of your moments and memories in artfully produced products designed to make sure your loved ones’ lives come full circle." -somersaults

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel
Title Quote: Robert Aris Willmott

... 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

 

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written

Link: Fiona Gray - Ceramic Artist and Illustrator .

LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM THE KILN             

"The fragility of letters  and the idea of sentiment and thoughts preserved in such a permanent way is a  powerful concept" Spaces magazine, February 2008
   
Have you ever wanted to write someone a love letter but the old fashioned pen and paper method is not for you? Or perhaps you have been tempted to peek at a secret letter written to someone else?

Ceramic artist and illustrator Fiona Gray has created an art form out of the loving words of others, and the desire of one person to peek at the thoughts of another. Her unique porcelain letter parcels offer the writer the chance to preserve their thoughts and feelings in a more permanent way than paper, at the same time seducing the viewer with a special intimacy with the written words.

Fiona came up with the idea of the letter parcels during her MA course in Ceramics, as she was interested in the hidden meanings within an artwork, leaving the viewer to question what was revealed but also questioning the concealed elements. She prints words from people’s letters and private thoughts, perhaps a diary entry or a letter written or received, and censors areas so the viewer is unable to read the whole letter, thus offering them the chance to fill in the blanks.

“It is that desire to reveal properties below the surface or picture plane, the sneak look or glance that is seduction; the intimacy between viewer and the artwork places the viewer, until the last possible moment, in the position of a voyeur.”

Title Quote: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

                                                   

 

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Link: naoko ogawa gathering jewelry recyclable.
Title Quote: Leonardo da Vinci

"I would like you to enjoy the jewelry by putting this silver plate on your body and crushing it together with your clothes to hold on. This enables you to change the look of your clothes by creating fluid folds on them.

This plate transforms the style of your clothes in many different ways depending on not only your everyday emotions but also the pattern or design of the plate, including the new patterns of the plate drawn by the crush as well as metal fatigue itself. You can basically enjoy an unlimited amount of designs on the silver plate and clothes since they never change in the same way.

It is my intention to make this jewelry enjoyably sensual, to let your hand touch and feel your body line (or silhouette of your clothes) with this plate and then to redefine it through crushing. By doing so, you could find the idea of your everyday clothes destroyed and / or turned into something new with the beautiful gathers which you could not imagine or predict. The gathers made by the redefinition of the crush would create a new body line (or silhouette of your clothes) and wrap you up for the day.

The key message or objective of this jewelry is that you can create a ‘today’ or a new you by destroying ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’.

Since it is made of metal, this silver plate would be so cracked or broken that you won’t hold or even wear it permanently. In that case, I would like you to stop to use it and send it to me. I will remelt it up and remake it as new one. That is to say you can get new plate perpetually. That is because partially I am afraid of a sharp edge of the broken metal. But moreover, it is because I am afraid that the broken jewelry may end up becoming or being stagnant as ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’ by keeping using it." -naoko agawa

... 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

Requiem For You

Link: Requiem For You.
  the Spirit of a Memory

"REQUIEM FOR YOU is the lasting celebration of the person departing from this life, cast as a biographical concert. With REQUIEM FOR YOU, a culture which is concerned in a dignified way with death at the artistic level has been revived. Major composers, such as Mozart, Brahms, Verdi and Berlioz, have created everlasting works for posterity. They have produced musical memorials for themselves and others and hence made great persons immortal.

We create a musical memorial for your personality and, through modern patronage, promote the creation of musical works at the highest artistic level.

With LAUDATIO FOR YOU, we set a musical scene which is also biographically based, for milestones in life – birthday celebrations, company festivities, anniversaries…"

The thing we long for, that we are for one transcendant moment.

Link: Fendi - Paint-Your-Own Baguette Tote - eLUXURY.

Fendi Paint-Your-Own Baguette Tote

Title Quote: Lowell

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

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

Link: Charles & Marie - Navigator Blog - Soupe du Jour Archive » ABC Button.

"Yeah yeah yeah, you’re thinking ‘a nine hole button? What’s that all about, I have enough problems dealing with the four it has already when one comes off…’ But wait! This is different, nine wholes are there so you can actually write using yarn and a needle… You can personalize your buttons, isn’t that a wild idea! Now, whether you intend to spell your name or just try a single letter that’s up to you but alongside the two buttons comes a needle, a threader (in case you find it as challenging as we do to get that thread through the needle) and 3 colors red/orange/green yarn to get you started. But this ain’t it, buying this set gives you exclusive access to the font our dear friends at e27 designed that goes beautifully with your new hobby and installs in a snap on your Mac. Here’s the technical info: Each of the 2 buttons per pack is made out of dark brown horn has a diameter of 0.8″ (2 cm) comes with the patented 9 holes and a needle and three color thread."

Quote: Elizabeth Bishop