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30 January 2020 Original work - painting, offset printing with stencils Experience of racism in Amsterdam shattered her sense of place, made her question her identity, rootsImages as pictograms of African Men and Women, repeated in varying sizes for perspective, hand cut from kraft paperReferences silhouettes of architectural elements in some worksAdopted kraft paper used… Continue reading Mary Evans – Materials Lab Lecture, RCA Kensington
13 February 2020 Text Research: Exhibition and Curatorial 'Fictions' at Cello Factory: I really liked Gary and Isabel's Editorial which was in the form of a press release, as it talked about commonalities in their works, and the abstract areas they address in their practice. 2. No Realm of Thought, No Field of Vision: Cerith… Continue reading Writing Research
15 February 2020 My chance visit to an exhibition by the French luxury jewellery brand turned out to be inspiring in more ways than one. The exhibit was sectioned on the basis of thematic commonalities in precious objects ranging from jewellery, vanity cases (and tiny objects within), time pieces and other personal trinkets reflecting their… Continue reading Van Cleef and Arpels at Palazzo Reale
10 February 2020
Richard Huges and Michael Rowe 27 January 2020 The book contextualizes patination in art and craft through historical times, and mentions some achievements in patination techniques in French, Japanese and Chinese crafts movements. Beyond this, it is a kind of recipe book, showing images of patinated plates and directing the user to the 'recipe' to… Continue reading Reading: The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals
10 January 2020 Jewellery Lorenzo pepe https://www.instagram.com/p/B7MR9o9CkR1/ Ceramic and oxidation processes used for Carlier Makigawa Stanley Lechtzin https://www.instagram.com/p/B6qRRk0Cxdf/ Mabel Pena Joyas https://www.instagram.com/p/BosAac6F4Rp/
23 November 2019 Tom Dixon: Underwater Furniture Farming Introduction of frameworks supporting the growth of corals in the ocean - to yield a harvest of furniture in a couple of years.. not much talk about it at present. (Find out more) Sigalit Landau: Salt Bride Coral Outplanting https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/crystal-skulls-instagram-artist/?pn=dd Tyler Thrasher Art https://www.tokujin.com/works/2008-second-nature/?l=en Design and The… Continue reading Bio-engineering
14 December 2019 History, nature, nhm, existing documentation, synthetic growth, my direction - dendrites? internship bookmarks on crystal reading Crystal & gem / written by Dr R.F.Symes and Dr R.R.Harding. https://sciencing.com/create-synthetic-rubies-6788778.html http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Synthetic-Ruby.html https://www.gemsociety.org/article/understanding-gem-synthetics-treatments-imitations-part-4-synthetic-gemstone-guide/ Crystal growers make use of certain fundamental aspects of natural laws; these laws govern the states of matter and the interactions of… Continue reading Crystals and Crystallization Reading
Reading Notes This potential to use the language of design to pose questions, provoke and inspire is conceptual design's defining feature. (beyod the limits of reality)They (conceptual designs) celebrate their unreality and take full advantage of being made from ideas. Rather than waiting for commissions from industry or seeking out market gaps for new products,… Continue reading Speculative Everything
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