Symphysis
Kinnari Thakker's Personal BlogArchive for Art
With a twist!
Its so inspiring to see the different ways in which people look at cities — photographers specially, have the most amazing ways to look at places and people and things. I was browsing around on the websites of design firms in New York (its internship application time for me!) and i came across the blog for Carbone Smolan (http://www.carbonesmolan.com/blog/) and on there was the link to these fascinating photographs of dancers in New York City. It was like a chill down my spine when I saw the first photograph – I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
link to more photos from the series: http://www.jordanmatter.com/photography/dance-photography/dancers-among-us/gallery.php#
Sheila Hicks and Weaving As Metaphor
Found Art has always been a “revealer” of information about the past and its histories and cultures. Here’s a look at how the art of weaving is a revealer of information about place, textures, surroundings –
In her book Weaving As Metaphor, Sheila Hicks shows her woven works which I find to be very representative of her nomadic career. It was beautiful how the first few images in the book – one, a piece she had woven and the other, a picture of Sheila in Mexico, seemed so connected. It reveals to the viewer information about her surroundings, her culture, her sense of perceptions in the form of textures, colors, patterns and compositions. The reciprocity between art and design is communicated so naturally that it ignores all the rules of classification and planning which we, as designers often confine ourselves to.
The above picture is of Sheila Hicks in Guerrero, Mexico. Below, is some of her work. (taken from her book)
The above picture is one taken by Sheila of her surrounding in Guerrero.
Weaving As Metaphor states an an interesting thought held by Plato — that the fine arts are mimetic, or imitative and therefore holds nothing he would recognize as originality, since they involve merely copying an existing reality.
Collecting Books with interesting forms
above pieces photographed at: Paper Pressed Stained Slashed Folded Exhibit at MOMA,NY, April 2009.
