Category: Wallet

I mentioned last Thursday that I had taken my ‘found object’, an old wallet, from a box found in the roof space. Beside it was a packet of negatives and one or two prints from the same period. BUT, there were other plastic bags inside this box, and I haven’t opened them, I was so… Continue reading Pandora’s Box

Last night I was reading “The Found Object in Textile Art” by Cas Holmes and the section on ‘Altered Books’ (p.80-81) caught my eye. It suggested using a found book, or cheap substitute, and using as a base or substrate for a series of collages. This seemed like a great idea to me. When I… Continue reading Altered Book

Most of the contents of this box also dated from the 1970s. Some are from the ‘wallet’ period (75-78) at Brock University in Canada and some overlapped with it. I just had a quick look and will go back and do a more thorough check later. Could this give me a wider slice of time?… Continue reading Making Day – Opening Pandora’s Box

 made a couple of images combining a bit from my MSc thesis (the altered book) with the contents of the wallet or photo taken by the H2 from that time. I used a stiff bristle brush and a bristle brush (in Photoshop) to make the unfinished edges and to give the impression of motion and… Continue reading Making Day -Altered Book3

State of the art in 1973  I just found this polaroid of a chip I made back in 1973 at GEC Hirst Research Centre in London. I still have some of the chips somewhere. It’s a 16×16 array of Ge-Te chalcogenide glass ‘bits’ that could be used as switches or storage. We were using them to… Continue reading Pandora’s Box’s Contents

FIRST IMPRESSIONS Stuff is a book by Daniel Miller. Caroline mentioned it last week during our discussion after ‘Making Day’. I’d heard of it, but couldn’t place it. I ordered a copy from World of Books and it came today. I haven’t even finished the Prologue and it has stimulated a lot of thoughts, emotions and… Continue reading STUFF

In our one-to-one Michele mentioned Concrete Poetry and that jogged my memory and really appealed to me. The Poetry Foundation’s definition : “Verse that emphasizes non-linguistic elements in its meaning, such as a typeface that creates a visual image of the topic. Examples include George Herbert’s “Easter Wings” and “The Altar” and George Starbuck’s “Poem in the Shape of a… Continue reading Concrete Poetry

Boltanski’s work was mentioned by Michele in our 121 and it seemed quite pertinent, so I got 2 of his books from World of Books. I was listening to Zadie Smith on Radio 4+ and she said some very relevant things, but I was listening in bed and fell asleep as she talked, so I… Continue reading New Books

From Michele For tomorrow’s session we will meet on zoom for a live mini lecture and discussion which will look at how we can use and embed thinking and theory into practice. We will also have an introduction to the Contextual Study and Literature Review in the context of this unit’s assessment requirements. In preparation,… Continue reading Influential Work on my Practice