I make things.
Hot House Handbag Chihuly - at the Temperate House Concept: 2. Lost time piece Concept: Lost time piece 3. Creeping at your feet - foot wear Concept: Creeping footwear 4. Headgear/viewing glasses Distortion Concept: Recurring Theme: Parasitic Invasions Nature taking overHindering resource intensive human invasionAnti function?Ruin, destructionAggression / confrontation from nature
07 October 2019 Preparatory Research Notes: 1 Minute Critical Review of Wendy Ramshaw’s Neckpiece for ‘Portrait of a Woman’ Structure: Contextualize artefact-10sIntroduction, initial thoughts, background-10sPersonal thoughts why I chose it, like/dislike it-10sSecondary Research-15sTakeaway (Primary research)-15s Style: Vlog – my interaction with the piece, subsequent enquiry into jewellery design, artistic process Notes Context: Part of her… Continue reading Preparatory Research Notes: 1 min critical review
03 October 2019 Discussed various functions for wearables - based on inputs by peers and readingsCould make further drawings from Kew GardensDecided to start collecting and making with materials, continue to read unexpected pleasures book, study of human body and body language Discussion with Summer: What value can I offer through the proposed objects?Kinetic butterfly… Continue reading Personal tutorial with Isabel
30 September 2019 Documenting materials at the V&A introduced me to a number of unconventional uses of materials- within and outside of the respective ‘material galleries’. The use of a range of materials like plastics (etched, 3d printed), fibres (japanese rice paper) and ceramics (Wendy Ramshaw x Wedgewood) in jewellery were of particular interest to… Continue reading Materials schedule: V&A
02 October 2019 Natural and derived: waterlilySapphire star - placed beauifully against greens and sky Curly hair? accentuate? hairpiece? Collected shapes, elements and ideas: Collected shapes: Waterlily HouseSpiral Staircase - Temperate HouseCollected objects, Hive installation, questions with technologyDrawing from Space: Kew Gardens Identified beautiful contrasts - structural and organic elementsChihuly exhibit - forms derived from… Continue reading Kew Gardens: Drawing from Space-2
01 October 2019 I tried to develop aesthetic form and abstract representation of some photographs of emotional value. I realized that I was interested in abstracting from spaces representing a contrast of natural and human made elements and structures. I decided to explore Kew Gardens as a possible source of inspiration and abstraction.
01 October 2019 ADAPTATION STRATEGIES Towards sustainability- built environment- biggest culprit for waste generationConversion of existing buildings and models to new and distinctive (traces of history, richer) ones with diff. usesemotional value - sense of human use - previous lifeWhat was once there + what is new - intersection of 2 momentsadditionupcycling / superuse (smart… Continue reading Pathway session: Concept sheets
30 September 2019 Pushing boundaries with materials - making new materials from existing ones- pushing old materials to do new things - recycling waste - composites - chemically created materials Weaving - creating looms from everyday items- nails on frame/ laser cut paper, repeating notches for warp; weft: paper, cloth, any flexible materialNikolas Feldemeyer -… Continue reading Material exploration
29 September 2019 “How or when my work is worn is not particularly important to me. The way in which others may organise it is an open-ended extension of its use. Such a possibility for varying personal choice is interesting precisely because it is out of my control.” Neckpiece for Picasso's 'Portrait of a woman'… Continue reading Case Study: Wendy Ramshaw
28 September 2019 I visited the exhibit questioning the difference between designing and making, and to immerse myself in a vast repository of 'designed objects', to contrast my engagement with 'artefacts' from the V&A. I returned with some more questions.. Artefact - from the Cambridge English Dictionary If Artefacts relate to objects of historical importance,… Continue reading Designer Maker User: Design Museum
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