Summer Collages.
No. 3599 | 9 thoughts on resources & things.
Hello lovelies!
I’m still here...in Tangier. For the last month or so I’ve been thinking about this space a lot. I’ve finally gotten around to creating something that I’ve wanted to do since I started...and that’s a resource directory. You’ll now notice clickable tags at the bottom of each entry that will lead you to an organized and sortable inventory of all the soulful and useful work that I’ve been collecting here. From there you’ll be able to scroll through the feed, root around in the sidebar menu, and/or randomly click on any of the tags just to see what comes up. Let me know what you think...
ERIK WINKOWSKI | artist | collage
instagram | portfolio | substack
Erik Winkowski treats video like collage, cutting up, drawing over, and remixing scenes from everyday life. “I’m interested in making work about things we look at each day but don’t really see, like traffic, clouds, weeds, and hands.”
“I do think capital A art can start to freeze you up as an artist. When you worry about, oh my god, what does this mean? What does this say about me? What does this say about the state of the world? That for me at least leads to the most uninteresting artwork. It’s like I’m letting the accountant decide what the artwork should be when instead the child side of my brain often surprises me and comes up with much better, less easily explained artwork.”
#artists, #collage
BEN MCLAUGHLIN | artist | collage
instagram | gallery | biography
Ben McLaughlin is mostly known for his figurative paintings but he has always made abstract collages and drawings. Primarily these are used by the artist as compositional starting points for other works.
#artists, #collage
CORD | designers | fashion
With their vintage craft details like smocking, quilting, statement sleeves, and their fine art-esque prints, and, it must be said, their excellent branding, Cord manages, with wistful artistry, to capture the elusive essence of vague emotions such as nostalgia and belonging.
#designers, #fashion, #looks
TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS OF INDIA | Forbes Watson Collection | archive
The Textile Manufactures of India is an 18-volume set of fabric sample books put together in 1866 by John Forbes Watson and published by the India Office of the British Government to show British manufacturers the types of fabrics made in South Asia. All 700 textile samples in these books have been digitized and made searchable by many categories such as origin, technique, use, etc. There is also an index of technical terms and an advanced search function.
“Indian taste in decoration is in the highest sense refined. Such combinations of form and colour as many of these specimens exhibit everyone will call beautiful.”
#textile, #archives
MEDHA KHOSLA | fiber artist | upcycling
Medha Khosla’s practice focuses on hand weaving, mixed media and fiber arts. While researching waste management practices in the context of community and identity politics, Khosla aims to disrupt the linear logic of production and waste by rendering the object as beautiful and the peripheral as central. Through her work, Medha focuses on researching and exploring the transformative power of discarded materials extracted from the immediate environment, reconfiguring them into intricate weaves.
#artists, #weaving, #upcycled
CECILE DAVIDOVICI | artist | embroidered portraits
Working from her Parisian rooftop studio with her “palette” of hundreds of skeins of milled cotton from DMC (a French textile company existing since 1746) Cécile Davidovici is known for her hyper-realistic embroidered works. Originally trained in cinema and theater, she shifted to textile art in 2018 following a personal loss, finding in embroidery a tactile, meditative form of storytelling. Her technique of layering cotton threads to mimic light, shadow, and texture treats embroidery with the sensibility of a painter.
#artists, #embroidery, #portrait
JOHANNA FLANAGAN | textile artist | doll maker
Johanna Flanagan is a Scottish doll maker, costumiere and teacher. Throughout a career that meandered from catwalk, to film, to theatre, to historical costuming, Johanna always made dolls in secret, never really taking them seriously until her mid thirties when she decided to bring them out of the shadows. A deeply personal reflection of her own emotional world, her designs are led by intuition and an instinctive response to materials and subject matter.
#textile, #artists, #workshops
BLANK ON BLANK | animated interviews | archive
Born from an idea David Gerlach had in the early 2000s when he was a journalist writing about culture and politics. He would record interviews while reporting a story, but only a few lines would make it into print and then the tape — or minidisc or digital file — would be stashed and largely forgotten. But it always seemed like there was cultural gold going to waste. There were journalists and archives across the country sitting on new and vintage interviews that could be remixed and reborn, and discovered by new audiences.
#archives
CLAUDIO POGO + MAGDALENA WYSOCKA | artists' books
wysocka | pogo | about | artworks | books
Magdalena Wysocka and Claudio Pogo are a Berlin-based artist duo who have been working together since 2016. With backgrounds in printmaking, photography, and publishing Wysocka/Pogo’s work bridges a variety of related mediums, from large-scale printed canvas works to handmade artists’ books from their own Outer Space Press. Their practice is centred around collecting and re-contextualising found imagery and utilises Risography, a Japanese stencil printing technique from the 1960’s.
#artists, #collage, #textile, #books, #artwork, #ateliers
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what a gift you resource guide..Look at all the work you have done on tumbler and the like. If this was book I would love to browse through it. Thank you...I am happy scrolling