Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Home Sweet Home
Amy Casey
I love looking old houses and barns but I have never made any art with this love. Therefore I love these and they inspire me to have a second thought.
I also have been wanting do make something that does not involve meticulous cutting, drawing or painting. Since my studio is still drying out from a bit of flooding I decided to start sewing. I have been scrapping together, a bit like Gees Bends, and I hope it leads somewhere. Here is an old piece I did for an application at Anthropologie's visual department. The idea was to recycle and use low budget materials. It is very decorative but I miss making them. With all this sewing, maps, and folk artchitecture I hope a fusion is in the near future. Time is the challenge.
If you cannot tell from the picture, they are baskects I covered with old cable-knit sweaters and flannels. I weaved and french-braided some.
I love looking old houses and barns but I have never made any art with this love. Therefore I love these and they inspire me to have a second thought.
I also have been wanting do make something that does not involve meticulous cutting, drawing or painting. Since my studio is still drying out from a bit of flooding I decided to start sewing. I have been scrapping together, a bit like Gees Bends, and I hope it leads somewhere. Here is an old piece I did for an application at Anthropologie's visual department. The idea was to recycle and use low budget materials. It is very decorative but I miss making them. With all this sewing, maps, and folk artchitecture I hope a fusion is in the near future. Time is the challenge.
If you cannot tell from the picture, they are baskects I covered with old cable-knit sweaters and flannels. I weaved and french-braided some.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Woodspiration
Design*Sponge turned me on to Henrique Oliveira, who uses wood peelings for his sculptures and installations.
Speaking of wood scraps, I have a friend that makes jewelry out of wood that are really inspirational. You can find Moorea Seal's work on etsy.
Speaking of wood scraps, I have a friend that makes jewelry out of wood that are really inspirational. You can find Moorea Seal's work on etsy.
Monday, October 19, 2009
A new map
Thanks to Cartophilia I saw these great Cartograms. Instead of showing land mass they show population mass. They look very similar to the drawings I had been doing. See Below.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Map Quilt Research
Recent thoughts on maps include the possibility of working with fabric and quilts. I am currently waiting to pick up the sewing machine I bought from a garage sale from my mother who was giving it a tune-up. My mother has extensive experience with sewing machines being a quilter herself. I have been the only female in my family to stop the tradition of quilting in my family. But I have a feeling this is no longer true. During my wait I decided to do some google research.
I found a great blog: Cartophilia
Which led me to steak maps.
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Then the ever trendy Famille Summerbelle's decorations for a child's rooms
Brenda Jones
"Actually, I use maps in the work often to signify a geographic place where I was when those thoughts were going through my head. Also, I sometimes use them because they really give a place to the person I was thinking of. Or, sometimes it is simply because they symbolize some time of journey to me and most of the works do have something to do with a journey of some sort or another...whether it is mental or geographic."
Marek Ranis and Maja Godlewska, Installation Artists
And a Quilter's Map.
Radical Cartography by Harold Fisk in 1944
I lost the name for this artist. If anyone finds it please let me know.
Oberg Green, 2000
cotton, wool, silk & linen
70 x 70 inches
Emily Fischer Joyce Kozloff
People on Fire, 1993
mixed media on canvas
76 x 110 inches
I found a great blog: Cartophilia
Which led me to steak maps.
l
Then the ever trendy Famille Summerbelle's decorations for a child's rooms
Matthew Cusik
Detail of Charlie's Angels, 2009 |
Leviathan, 2008 Illustrated bible, sumi ink, charcoal, chalk, on panel 45 x 64 inches
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Brenda Jones
"Actually, I use maps in the work often to signify a geographic place where I was when those thoughts were going through my head. Also, I sometimes use them because they really give a place to the person I was thinking of. Or, sometimes it is simply because they symbolize some time of journey to me and most of the works do have something to do with a journey of some sort or another...whether it is mental or geographic."
Marek Ranis and Maja Godlewska, Installation Artists
And a Quilter's Map.
Radical Cartography by Harold Fisk in 1944
I lost the name for this artist. If anyone finds it please let me know.
Ian hundley
Oberg Green, 2000
cotton, wool, silk & linen
70 x 70 inches
Emily Fischer
Fantastic. Haptic Lab's Haptician in Chief is Elizabeth Emily Fischer, who makes Soft Maps, quilts with map patterns stitched onto them:
"These heirlooms are meant to be used: wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor'easter. Not only beautiful, these blankets can be used as a mnemonic tool. As your child grows up with a Soft Map, they learn to read their neighborhood and its landmarks in a tactile, easily remembered way."
Targets Acrylic on canvas, with wood frame 108x108 in | ||||||
Secret Kiss, 1999, knitted wool, 40 x 20 x 33 cm
City Drawings Series (Addis Ababa), 1997, pencil on paper 31 x 21 cm
Little Universe 2 , 2006, enamelled bronze, unique, 9 x 40 x 20 cm
Guillermo Kuitca
People on Fire, 1993
mixed media on canvas
76 x 110 inches
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