Susan Bosence . "STRIPE and SPOT. (a) Combination of double wax resist twice brush dyed in Soledon blue and brown. Wax removed and paste resisted then brush dyed in dark blue on calico. (b) Wax resist spots, brush dyed in brown, paste resisted and brush dyed in blue. N.B. very labour intensive processes. 1960s." Sonia Delaunay . "Project de tapis. Encre de Chine. 35 x 22,5cm." S.B. "UNNAMED. Half…
A late C19th model to demonstrate how waves move; made by the Elliott Brothers, to a design by Baden Powell ((1796-1860) – the father of Robert, founder of the scout movement). An interactive animation here . This — and other explanatory scientific models — can be seen at the seemingly wonderful University of Cambridge Whipple Collection . Here — with a linking thought on the 'sculpting' or…
With James Langdon , Gavin Wade , Stuart Whipps – for Eastside Projects . More here . Notes to come.
Albrecht Dürer – Melencolia (1514). "Cosmonaut Alexander Y. Kaleri, Expedition 8 flight engineer, practises docking procedures with the manual TORU rendezvous system in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station" (via). Antonello da Messina – Saint Jerome in his Study (c. 1475) ( via ).
A work just published in the third issue of Limner – a critical journal of illustration by Studio Operative , designed by Traven T. Croves . More on the issue's theme below. This pieces reprises a title 'the stick that moved on its own' (used in a previous work) because I'm not yet done with its connotations. The phrase is excerpted from 'Woodland Animals', a book for young children published by…
Stefan Klos' 'keeper jersey, Borussia Dortmund 1992-3, via . C&A Rodeo cycling jersey, I guess also circa early 1990s, via .
Imi Knoebel's Messerschnitte silkscreen print series (1977-93). I'm beginning work on a second collaboration with James Langdon (news on the first — Eastside Projects Manual Draft #6 — to come). Not too much detail at the moment but the context is a performance of sorts; and the work, a costume which part-transforms into an architectural model. At the moment, it feels productive to interleave and…
Susan Bosence . "STRIPE and SPOT. (a) Combination of double wax resist twice brush dyed in Soledon blue and brown. Wax removed and paste resisted then brush dyed in dark blue on calico. (b) Wax resist spots, brush dyed in brown, paste resisted and brush dyed in blue. N.B. very labour intensive processes. 1960s." Sonia Delaunay . "Project de tapis. Encre de Chine. 35 x 22,5cm." S.B. "UNNAMED. Half…
Studies for an in-progress collaboration with James Langdon , for Eastside Projects . James, in conversation with co-director Gavin Wade on "layering and counter-positioning" — with mention of the project — in the current issue of Cura magazine. More soon.
In the throes of studio work, preparing 'Secondment', opening at Beginnings NYC on 21 February. More documentation, detail soon.
A junction point, with the need to establish some logic for a larger set of works in fabric. Here in this space, I'm hovering too much over each sentence — each postable image — and enjoying blurted thoughts published elsewhere with a 130 character cap. With a new body of work, the chance presents itself to grow a new arm – or flex an unused muscle. In this case, a different kind of mark made. I…
I am speaking this Friday 9 November at St. Bride Library , for the one-day conference Letterpress: Something to Say . Co-ordinated by Catherine Dixon and Rose Gridneff . It's coming at a time where my working systems across bookwork, stitched bag and chair, wall object and drawing are by-products of basically the same system (analogous to letterpress). In the end I do want an entropic slip out of…
Four projects have come to a head at more or less the same time, hence the post silence. This — seen here in sequence and entirety (albeit with the spreads split) — a two-colour bookwork in edition of 300 for Container Corps of Portland, Oregon– in their 'Summer Sigs' series of publications by invited artists. The only stipulations were size (8.5" x 5.5"), page number (16), binding (saddle-stitch)…