a subtlety

 

Where I Was From

perfect clothes, perfect styling.
~ now on the hunt for the perfect offwhite tee, clog/wedge & corduroy trousers...

light filtered through the quince bushes outside our bedroom windows

Ancient Pocket for ERMIE aka Jennifer Parry Dodge, a Los Angeles–based textile designer.

Love the styling & colours of these photographs // must get the clay out and make some sculptural necklaces / beads...

READ: Sight Unseen / Studio Visit 

& our wild paths intersect

Frank Bruggeman | Faye Toogood | Scholten & Baijings | Maarten Baas

Photographed by Marius W Hansen

COS Magazine No. 10 - The Outside Issue

I was flicking through the latest COS Magazine, and was captivated by the feature that saw five noted designers and artists create a bouquet. Each interpreted in different ways, exploring various ideas; permanence, space, composition, representation, temporality, the urban outdoors...

My favourite is the floral arrangement by Frank Bruggeman - the form and composition, the contrast of textures, the simplicity, the way in which the one stem lies horizontally...

"His imposing installations shown in museums and public spaces often consist of trees, flowers and other organic materials. For this exuberant bouquet, Bruggeman combined dry, wintery materials such as chestnut branches with newly flowering amaryllis and tulips. “It gives one a sense of the season,” says the artist. “Bouquets are living rather than static things, and thus temporary.” Instead of choosing a traditional vase, Bruggeman has made use of a kenzan or ‘spiky frog’, a flower holder from the ikebana practice. A true flora fanatic, Bruggeman is a founding editor of Club Donny, a journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment."

Having a mother as a florist, I find myself becoming more and more interested in the construction and the concept of a floral arrangement, as so much of the deliberation over flower, colour and composition choices bear such a similarity to the creative processes when creating any other type of art. These pieces, in their expression of a concept with their sculptural appearance, prove that the artistry of arranging is far from a past time only the village elderly upkeep but a very contemporary creative practice that I believe is only beginning to permeate the art world.

--- title from a song by patten -- go listen -- & watching Drive for like the hundreth time -- the soundtrack is divine -- #midnightmusings

the tomb, the womb, the hidden time

Needless to say, I was very excited to discover the jewellery designs of Seb Brown ; delicate and intricate yet rough, organic and very much like dug up archaeological relics, together with the stones, metals - silver and bronze - and triangular shapes. However, when I stumbled across an interview with him, I found out his background is primarily in graphic design - his website certainly displays a multitude of  creative ventures; installations, illustrations, paintings and other commissioned projects...

^ Jewellery installation at Alice Euphemia, a boutique in Melbourne.

sand, silver, stone, perspex, silk, plaster, concrete, paper

Inspired by the textures and forms of flora and geology, Seb's primary fascination centers around the exploration into how people from ancient civilizations have developed their own unique aesthetics without the presence of any outside influence. He also studies the different forms of body adornment throughout history and the notions behind the value given to precious objects.

--- never too many ringzz ---

>> title from some lecture notes I'm revising on Christian art / late antiquity. Love how poetic it sounds.

is you is or is you ain't?

how rad are these?