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THE KNOTS HAVE BEEN MADE USING FISHING ROPE. I can also use thread to make interesting knots and then weave the screws through and create some nice layered samples that i can then apply of the body.
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Drawing
responding to the nails I have decided to draw around them but they started moving around on the page and what I did is simply draw around them after they started moving on the page. I am thinking of doing the same but by using stitching and embroidery.
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Cheng Tsung Feng
Artists Mike and Doug Starn just built the largest bamboo structure ever out of 10,000 bamboo poles and 80,000 meters of climbing rope. Over the course of seven weeks, 25 rock climbers built the 17-meter-high installation without using a single architectural sketch. 5,000 Arms to Hold You was built at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and visitors are welcome to navigate and explore its intricate structure.
Kumi Yamashita
These selected pieces from my Constellation series consists of three simple materials that produce the portraits: a wooden panel painted a solid white, thousands of small galvanized nails, and a single unbroken sewing thread.
"The portrait is made from a single unbroken sewing thread wrapped through a dense network of galvanized nails, a process that takes several months."
They are such simple pieces but they have created something with a big impact.
I could play around with the idea of my dad's identity and create a similar portrait by using the nails and thread. Also I can then create 3d work with the same idea .
nails art
Old iron nails taken from the repaired roof of Canterbury Cathedral have been used by sculptor Antony Gormley to create a striking new artwork there.
Unveiled today, the piece, called Transport, is suspended at the cathedral above the site of the first tomb of Thomas Becket, the archbishop murdered at the altar on December 29 1170.
The two metre-long work uses antique iron nails from the cathedral's repaired south east transept lead roof to construct a membrane outlining the space of a floating body.
Emily Hiller
This collection marked the completion of the MA Fashion at Central St Martins School of Art and Design.
Oversized, sculptural pieces are unique to historical and contemporary fashion.
Park
I found these in the park near my house and I really liked the way they used the string and the tree branches and I wanna try ir out as well. Its really different from the metal and screws that I have been using and so I want to show some contrast in my work by using softer more natural materials.
Text
On my way home I was this in the underground station and I was inspired by it to use in this project. I think as it as an embroidery design or a weave that I can
Construction site photography
"In the series Shadow Workers, I use light and shadow to tell a story about the uncredited construction workers that surround me every day. Through the documentation of their daily actions, I have found that the medium allows for capturing moments that are more than initially meets the eye. When it comes to form, what you see is not always what is seems, and I want to allow for the audience to play and interact in viewing my work. I aim not to do this through invention, but rather insight. A universal memory of exploring a fleeting form is to create characters for clouds. When I look at these photographs, I often picture astronauts walking on the moon. I feel that this extensive observation of organic and structural shapes will open up viewers’ minds, and change the way they interact with and view other prevalent daily practices."
Shadow Workers and siesta are two fine art projects that have been done by a construction site company.
I think the photos are amazing because they give the construction site a new prospective and it is a really good way to respond to the structural site of constructions and I want to explore it through photography and video.
20/11/2019
The reason why I had the screws is because my dad works as a carpenter and I was really fascinated by that. He went from being an estate agent to being now a carpenter. He introduced me to this new world and so I wanted top play with the difference between the two jobs and to look at similarities and differences.
I started looking at construction site uniforms. I want to play with the idea go taking the uniform and making it into an elegant garment that can be worn by businessmen. I want to combine the 2 sides of my dad and transform them to show his identity now as a constructions worker compared to when he used to be a real estate agent.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Claude aspired to paint the same sight over and over again in order to capture the view’s different state depending on the time of the day in which Monet would paint them. He would make series of such paintings, out of which the most acclaimed are depictions of water lilies, train stations, grain stacks and cathedrals. Focusing on natural light, Monet did not change the perspectives or equipment, only the time in which he would paint. These pieces are not only important for the Impressionism phenomenon but are also iconic for their evidential role in presenting an avant-garde mindset of an artist that desired to break the bonds with traditional forms.
repetition techniques and definición in art
Rhythm in art can be considered one of the fundamental principles of art and its production. Interested in exploring more and understanding in depth yet another of its elements, the repetition in art is quite possibly one of the most interesting methods that the artists implement to create a certain movement, stillness, design, confusion, to rebel against the notion of tradition, re-define the idea of the original and the copies, or to cast true focus on one part of the artwork that either makes the work more visible or purposely invisible. Seen as one of the most important techniques for reduction, repetition is used in an equal amount both in music and visual arts[1] and is seen as both aesthetic and poetic device.
Definition of Repetition in Art
Before we return to the some of the most memorable pieces of repetition in art and turn our focus on its history, we need to take a step back to mention the definition of repetition in the visual production. Seen as one of the fundamentals of creativity, repetition, in a similar manner to the rhythm, helps to create a sense of movement within an artwork. In visual production, it is a recurrence of a particular line, pattern, shape, or other visual elements in a single or part of the series[3]. The production of something which is repetitive yet at the same time exciting is a challenge, as many consider the recurrence as boring and still. This element many authors used on purpose to comment on the state of the world around us and to challenge the public to slow down the race for the achievement of consumerism gods and idols. Sometimes the repeat is used to build a sense of tension if no variations are implemented and it is often in the subtle detail that the key to the understanding of such pieces lies[4].
There is a variety of ways in which the repetition can occur. It can be even or uneven, regular or irregular, it can form radiation, occurring when the repeat of elements is spread out from the central point, or a form of graduation, where the parts slowly become smaller or larger[5]. Working with repeated patterns, and this was highly regarded during the Art Nouveau period and its pattern-making production, the surface of the work is enhanced, therefore made more interesting to the public, and at the same time, a sense of order is added to the composition. As a tool, repetition helps to build not only the visual part of the work but it often provides a deeper meaning to the artwork, hiding a more philosophical and conceptual identity.
Alice fox
Alice fox
I was looking at ways in which I can use the screws to make interesting mark making and how to use them other than just stitching them on a piece of fabric and done, I want to use them to experiment with different mark making techniques and I came across Alex Fox. She used the metal to stain the fabric and so I want to try and do that. Maybe I could weave the screws and then leave them in salty water to rust and to then stain the fabric.
I really like her samples because also my theme is working with nails and construction tools that relates to my dad. I like the idea of weaving into the nails and then leaving them into the water to rush and how the rush then moved to the weave creating kind of a wave. I liked the color palette she worked with an I am also interested in working with shades of the same colors.
I can also try and stain the samples with color or I can paint the shapes of the nails n the embroidery/ fabric like the picture below.
Textile artist Alice Fox is inspired by the natural world and detail of organic things.
"The images celebrate the coastal landscape and really capture that peaceful feeling of being at the beach with waves lapping the seashore, the ebb and flow of the tide and the imprints on wet sand. Alice has an affinity with nature and, in particular, the sea coast and it shows. She is a trained naturalist with a degree in Physical Geography who later returned to college to complete a Textiles degree as a mature student, graduating in 2011. She has been developing a close relationship with the shoreline and this series of work is an extension of the work made during of her residency at Spurn National Nature Reserve in 2012."
"These small woven fragments all have a found metal object embedded within them. These metal marks form a line, like a line of debris left by the tide. They are dark marks within light weave but their mark spreads into the weave as sea water has worked on the metal and taken it into the fibre around. You can see a little sequence of images taken when these were first introduced to sea water"
The Tide Marks exhibition features a range of works on paper and cloth as well as some small tapestry weave pieces. This is the first time that I’ve shown weave as part of an exhibition. Weave is very much a part of my practice but I tend to use it as a way of collecting things together, part of my process rather than the finished work. I have often used tapestry weave to bring found items together, partly as a way of exploring the possibilities of the material and getting to know it. You really understand a fibre when you spend time with it, manipulating and seeing how far you can push it. Weave requires tension. Some things just can’t cope with this, whereas others can surprise in how they withstand it.
cat’s cradle
When I was researching ideas for knots I came across this image. I really liked the layering of the knots and this image has reminded me of a game I used to play when I was little called cat's cradle.
R
"The children’s game in which two players alternately take from each other’s fingers an intertwined cord so as always to produce a symmetrical figure"
What I like about this game are the interesting knot ideas that I could use for this project. I know the game has nothing to do with the theme but I like the idea of creating knots with your hands and the end results are really nice and textural.
Sheila hicks
Sheila hicks
I was looking at ways I could combine the yarn and the screws and I started wrapping the yarn around them and then when I was doing some research I found Sheila's work and I thought the techniques she uses can inspire me in this project. And so I want to start thinking of ways I can use the yarn to hold the screws together.
Hicks began her career as a painter—and you can see that in her practice. She translates elements of abstraction, color theory, and painterly gesture into thread, where they perhaps originated. Weavers were making non-representational compositions.
Julia wright
It is the process of making that inspires me most, particularly the combination of working with metals, fabric, and threads. I enjoy the repetitive practice of stitch as a mark-making technique, combining pinching and gathering with clusters of tiny textural marks. Growth, decay, and repair are my constant inspiration, and I see ideas in repeated structures, eroded surfaces, and the cracks where surfaces have crumbled and worn.
I enjoy the honesty of natural materials, exploiting the structural qualities in linen, cotton, and scrim with natural dying processes such as rust and burning. I'm always drawn to weathered, irregular forms and the repetition of simple shapes, like clusters of barnacles and growth patterns of lichen. My textiles pieces suggest snippets of landscape and coastline without being figurative. My jewelry focuses on delicate details, simple organic structures, and clean lines.
I love how she mixed materials and techniques to create samples. I want to make more textile samples by combining my nails with the yarn.
John Bisbee
John Bisbee
"Most people use nails just to hang art on the wall, but Maine-based sculptor John Bisbee collects thousands of them to craft incredibly intricate sculptures into spiked balls, undulating waves, tree-like structures and towering geometric stacks.
Bisbee got the idea after entering an abandoned house looking for found objects to use in his art and finding a bucket full of old nails. “I kicked the bucket and it flipped over,” he told NPR, “and the nails had cohered, oxidized – they’d rusted into the bucket shape. And it was just such an obvious thing of beauty – it was so clearly above anything I had ever envisioned making myself. And I sat down on the bed, and I knew that I needed to get some nails.”
I really like the way he has experimented with the nails as it gave me a new way of thinking about how I can do so as well. I love how experimental and textural his work is and how he created these forms. I can also take structures ideas from the human body. My dad has recently hit his leg and it's all swollen due to his work. It makes me think of how this would've never happened if he was still a real estate agent. I want to play with the idea of creating an elegant uniform to be worn on the construction site and to combine it with structures from the human body and the nails.
18/11/2019 19
Today I brought in a set of nails from my dad's cupboard. The thinking process for mr when I thought of bringing something was first to think about new ways in which I can recycle found objects in my home that we throw away the most. So I found plastic bags, plastic water bottles etc.
"Recycling for most of us has become somewhat normal practice, so much so that we no longer have to think about adding paper, cans or plastic to our recycling bins instead of throwing it in the rubbish to be sent to landfill. But, have you ever stopped to think about how much of each type of waste you are getting rid of? What do you throw away most? And are there any changes you would make to your buying habits once you find out? Here are some of the most common household items that are thrown away that you could easily stop doing:
Plastic bottles
Sure, plastic bottles are super convenient when you’re on the go and want to rehydrate, and of course they are a fairly common recyclable material, but if you’re continually buying a bottle on your way to work in the morning, why not just fill a glass with water and wash it at the end of the day? We promise, the water will taste just the same, and there’s no need for you to waste your money or the energy and resources required to churn out over 50 billion bottles of water per year. It’s no wonder ‘ban the bottle’ has become such a popular campaign in the USA recently.
Paper towels
Are you guilty of using kitchen roll or paper towels to clean down your kitchen counters every day? If so, switch to washable cloths instead, and benefit from the same ability to clean your counters, and contribute to long term environmental advantages by reducing the amount of paper required to produce these common household items each year.
Plastic shopping bags
There are over 1 trillion plastic bags used each year, which contributes to 12.7% of total municipal solid waste globally. It’s time to stop using these plastic bags and drastically reduce our dependence on them. Re-usable shopping bags are an excellent alternative to those plastic bags you get at the checkout each week, they’re just as practical and lightweight, and will help save you money (rather than 5p per bag). It’s time to ditch the plastic, and look elsewhere for more sustainable solutions.
Consumer shopping habits today are less of a ‘make do and mend’ approach and a much more throw away society, meaning we’re all buying a lot of stuff we don’t really need, whether from convenience or from habit. Stop and think about what you’re buying, only to throw away. Not only will it help reduce your carbon footprint, but it might also save you money. "
Razor Blades
Counter Wipes
Paper Coffee Cups
Cotton Balls
Plastic Utensils
Paper Plates
Plastic Shopping Bags
Dryer Sheets
Printer Cartridges.
Coffee Filters
Ziploc Bags
Swiffer Pads
Baby Wipes
Paper Lunch Bags
Plastic Hand Soap Dispensers
Disposable Contact Lenses
https://myheartbeets.com/reuse-13-things-normally-throw-away/
http://ecosalon.com/top-20-things-we-throw-away-that-we-shouldnt/