#bojagi

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Currently at the Creative Pinellas gallery is Yolanda Sánchez’s Out of Eden, a collection of her paintings and textile work. The gallery is filled bright pleasing colors and this is the perfect exhibition to celebrate the spring season.

On the Creative Pinellas website, Sánchez discusses her work in a detailed essay. Below is a section of that piece.

Whether in painting or textiles, my working instruments are rhythm and color. I am interested in the joyful, playful or even spiritual properties of light. I am reflecting the light and color of where I live, of my immediate environment.

This artistic practice is improvisational and process-oriented, abstract. The relationship of one color to another creates a rhythm and tempo and establishes the composition. Each color suggests the next color, almost like the “call and response” form found in many musical traditions. There is a continuous orchestration, as the colors converse with one another, suggesting a mood or vibe.

I am often not sure where it is going or going to go. It is a surprise at every turn. I shape my perception as I work.

My textile work is informed by the Korean art form known as Bojagi. Humble in its origins, nameless women made these traditional textiles as often extravagant visual pieces using mundane, leftover fabric from wrapping, storing and transporting goods. Over time, the nobility introduced finer, more delicate cloth.

In its traditional form, design characteristics include stitching and seams to create linear elements, especially with translucent fabrics. These features differentiate and distinguish Bojagi from patchwork textiles found in other cultural traditions. Nevertheless, Bojagi shares what feminist art historians identify as centuries-old histories of turning scraps of fabric into beautiful objects and ultimately shifting perspectives from private to public.

I pay homage to these unknown women, authenticating their domestic work – and I affirm their values of inclusion, pleasure, love, the familial, the decorative, the colorful and joyful, the spiritual and the everyday.

My Bojagi-inspired textile work – painting with thread and fabric – honors the Korean tradition. Still, while relying on the conventions and basic structure, these pieces extend and interpret the Bojagi into a more contemporary form. I offer a new direction by varying medium and size and utilizing color compositions and stitching techniques less anchored to established methods.

Material, color, texture and transparency are crucial elements in this work, as is the geometry inherent in the design. While geometry, in this case, emerges from a particular culture, the form does not demand a specific culture-dependent response. Its only function is beauty. It is about the sensual delight derived from looking – the viewer can ascribe or chose meaning, if at all.

As an order, rhythm and pattern are generated within the geometry, creating beauty through harmony and stability, color dominates as a suggestive poetic force, concurrently evoking a connection to my immediate tropical environment. It sets as my intention arousing a sense of place, a feeling, and the atmosphere of an abstract garden, or even a walk through a field of flowers.

It is the color but also the sensuousness of nature that I endeavor to suggest in both my paintings and textiles.

This exhibition closes 4/16/23.

[keepingitneutral]

Bojagi Lounge, Anyang, Gyeonggi province, South Korea,

"ZONE 7: Your Imaginary Space," Anyang Public Art Project  (APAP),

 Izaskun Chinchilla Art,

Photograph by DongWoong Lee

[jasonraish]

Unknown Gold - Acrylic and sculpy on pine wood

Cluster - 🍄 group show at Nucleus House in Portland April 2 - 30, 2023

I grew up as a Korean kid in all Caucasian western new York state on 50 acres and saw mushrooms growing in the forest all the time. This Korean mushroom was hidden away in the remote forest, appearing bizarre and undesirable to the rural people who come would across it and pass it over, never knowing the golden potential that lies within. Chogak Bojagi 조각보 are Korean wrapping cloths made from discarded fabric scraps. In Korea Pine mushrooms 송이 can only grow on fallen ceadar and oak shaded by pine and are sometimes called gold in the forest because of their rarity and high value. Both chogak bo and songi mushrooms are reborn from unwanted matter. This Korean mushroom boy rose from decay and let his inner gold shine and I hope those of you out there know what's inside of you. 

It took hours to cut this in half with a hand saw and hours to carve out the middle cavities. So much sweat went into making this and it was quite the challenge.

[hemanchong]

"Bojagi (wrapping cloth)' is a rectangular shaped cloth that allows valuable items to be easily stored, decorated, and carried around. Compared to a 'pre-shaped' bag, Bojagi can be used for both standardized and uniquely shaped items. At the same time, it is eco-friendly and reusable, In Korean, quite a few words including 'useum-bo (burst of laughter)' and 'bo-ssam (vegetable wraps with pork)' are derived from 'Bojagi, which shows how deeply Boaqi has influenced everyday life in Korea. This exhibition <Bojagi, Embracing Daily Life> features the numerous uses as well as the different sizes, materials and compositions used in Bojagi. The exhibits range from fashionable and luxury Bojagi that were known to have been used in the palace to simple Bojagi that were used among ordinary people. #Bojagi #bojagiart #SeoulMuseumOfCraft #Seoul #SouthKorea (at 서울공예박물관 Seoul Museum of Craft Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CizuhiSrllm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[magentakang]

You are the light (2022)

Installation bojagi art work at Ely Cathedral

[awesomecopper]

Finished my Bojagi Shawl! Free pattern from knitboop. I really enjoyed knitting the lace section :)

And of course, no knitted project is truly complete until it has Frog’s seal of approval

[chainestiche]

i think all the secondhand scarves i ordered to make bojagi inspired curtains have arrived ! also in that order i snuck a pair of shoes and some other stuff maybe ill show too but the curtains !! im so excited !!

[garadinervi]

Wrapping Cloth (Bojagi), Korea, late 20th century [Costumes and Textiles Special Purpose Fund, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA]

[seahdalune]

anyways look at Gangneung specific bojagi sewing patterns.

what makes these patterns unique is that the branching patterns depict trees... seen from above!

[professorpski]

Threads, Fall 2023

Threads is a magazine that specializes in teaching fine sewing techniques, everything from fabrics choices to fitting garments. It also has made an effort lately to offer one basics article per issue for newer dressmakers and tailors, which I find usually has something to teach me despite my years of sewing. This issue has the color forecasts for the coming cooler seasons along with suggestions for some patterns to match. 

The cover offers an example one of the hand details articles which are featured. the jacket is made of wool double-cloth when two separate fabrics are woven and then attached to one another. It allows for a warmer, thicker more luxurious feeling fabric and a variety of edge finishes. Debby Spence explains the care needed to work with such fabric, and I would second the need to experiment with edge seams before you even think about cutting. The one time I worked with such a cloth, I intended to separate the layers at the front edges and fold them in and hand finished. But then the edges the stretched out alarmingly after separated; I changed course and covered the edges instead with a contrasting, knitted wool binding. 

Technical articles explain the methods for more hand-made details. You  see here also from Youngmin Lee’s article on bojagi a textile for wrapping gifts from Korea that can be quilted or embroidered. Then, simple hand embroidery on a black knit shirt is part of an article on the basics of developing, transferring and embroidering designs on knits by Alex Woodbury. 

Fitting in nicely with this attention to detail is Maggie Raywood’s interesting account of copying gowns created by the Callot Sisters of Paris which are held in the Acton collection which belongs to NYU Florence. You see here the portrait of Hortense Mitchell Acton, a devoted buyer of the sisters’ work, and the gown she wears in it, both of which are on display at Villa La Pietra, Florence.  

There are more articles, on types of interfacings (the basics article), how people who are left handed can find ways to make sewing easier for them, and on making a vintage pocket feature. 

Find the issue at your local fabric store, bookstore, or online here: https://www.threadsmagazine.com/

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[mybeingthere]

I loved Korean traditional textile "quilts" - Bojagi (or Pojagi) even before I knew Chunghie Lee - a great Korean Bojagi artist, a teacher, writer and historian. Now I understand this craft better, having read Chunghie Lee's book "Bojagi & Beyond". 

Chunghie Lee says: 

“The  Bojagi & Beyond” (Korean traditional wrapping cloth) made many generations ago in Korea, this cloth is a source of great inspiration to me. It used to be made by our female ancestors whose names were unknown, and who did not gain fame.In their time, they had little independence but they were faithful to their situation and endured. Using carefully saved scraps of precious fabrics, they played with color and shape in childlike fashion and in natural ways, creating pure and innocent art works. 

Sewing scraps together is regarded as a symbol of healing. Through the act of sewing, stitch by stitch, one connects and repairs the effects of time, thus heals, and creates harmony through compromise.

I see this patchworkas a metaphor for human life.

We may feel ourselves to be as random pieces of fabric,

alone and without meaning,

but God’s hand places us together

in a beautiful composition

which has great harmony and meaning.”

[jeonginkang]

Lee's birthday gift April 1st, 1971

《 About 》

Initially, Jeong-in sent a photo of his bruised neck to the killer to wish him happy birthday knowing he'd see him eventually in person at some other time to give him his gift. In general, the cleaner is someone who prefers to celebrate people at any given time of the year and not just on their birthday (it's why he doesn't bother telling people his birthday is on March 13th), but is still happy to do something for the few people he actually appreciates or cares about.

So remembering what Lee had revealed during the RDV, but also what the killer had bid on; Jeong-in combined that knowledge and his initial idea of a gift for the killer. So, on top of wearing one of Lee's old leather jacket and a hickey on his neck for anyone to see, Jeong-in wrapped Lee's gift in Korean ancient art of gift wrapping using a crimson and black cloth (Bojagi). Inside the box, there is one of the slutty little dinner forks that he wrapped like a flower and a poetry book: Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (original print). He chose the book because Lee enjoys poetry, but specifically because that one was written by siblings. It's his own way of honouring Valerie, Lee's twin.

@leemalkovich

[eahostudiogallery]

software updates

Christian Boltanski - Gaze 

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Bojagi

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Brooke DiDonato

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Gizela Mickiewicz - Interior Blackout ::

Ibrahim Mahama

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Denim Tower @ MOCA Geffen Plaza

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Man Ray

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Hana Miletić - Pieces

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Anders Krisar

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Lieselott Beschorner Im Atem der Zeit (In the Breath of Time)

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Kathrin Siegrist - Gartenzentrum

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Fernanda Gomes

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Liesl Raff - Cascade

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Eva Hesse

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Dala Nasser - Red in Tooth

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Anthony Akinbola

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Andrés Reisinger

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Christo - Posthumous in Paris

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Sunday: it’s for you!

[fashionbooksmilano]

Patchwork  A World Tour

Catherine Legrand

Thames&Hudson, London 2023, 216 pages, 300 col.ills., 22.86 x 29.46 cm,   ISBN  9780500025819

euro 39,00

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What do Korean bojagi wrapping cloths, Cameroonian Bamileke boubous, Peruvian montera hats, and Hungarian cifraszür shepherd cloaks have in common? Each is made using the ancient technique of patchwork—the art of juxtaposing fabrics and motifs to create blankets, clothes, accessories, and more.

This volume follows Catherine Legrand as she sews together an ethnographic patchwork map. Legrand has spent many years traveling and researching textiles and has a deep knowledge of the techniques and traditions that characterize patchwork, enabling her to create an engaging fabric-inspired travelogue.

Pieced together much like the gorgeous textiles it portrays, Legrand’s beautifully illustrated history features over 300 dazzling photographsof patchwork from around the world and takes the reader from Europe and the Americas to Africa and Asia, where these ancient traditions survive, and patchwork is part of the fabric of everyday life. Textile artists, patchwork enthusiasts, and designers of all stripes will discover an endless source of inspiration.

Catherine Legrand worked as a graphic designer at the foundation of the Théâtre du Soleil and in New York and Paris before becoming a freelance textile designer. In the course of her many “textile voyages,” she has become a passionate collector of fabrics, outfits, jewelry, and accessories. She is also the author of Indigo: The Color that Changed the World.

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17/02/23

[sycamoretrees]

rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know better. tagged by @cant-not

last song: Wouldn't Mama Be Proud by Elliott Smith, my absolute favourite artist in my teens (yes I was very depressed, how did you guess!!) that I don't listen to much any more BUT every now and then there is a craving and gosh his instrumentation is just so good

last show: tv isn't hitting for me much lately, v sad as a huge tv fan. I live in anticipation of the new season of the Great British Sewing Bee and in the meantime I'm enjoying the new season of taskmaster

currently watching: zelda let's plays on youtube, baseball (best beloved but also a true disaster for any kind of normal healthy sleep schedule I might have liked to have), wrestling. AM I a fourteen year old american boy? Some would say yes!*

currently reading: by huge coincidence I am actually reading A Book atm (I've averaged approx 1 book a year for the past few years) Grunt by Mary Roach, I enjoy her writing! I got it to be a middling-ly interesting read before falling asleep but then it starts off looking at fabric development in the military which is WAY TOO INTERESTING for me specifically

current obsession: aside from the aforementioned wrestling (jay white <3 eddie <3 kenny <3) and baseball (blue jays, dodgers, angels), have been entranced by bojagi (korean patchwork) and also I guess the pursuit of Big (figuratively) Strong Orange Cassidy-Style Muscles. Ask me how much I bench bro (not much). Also I badly want the new Zelda game!!! But I don't want to pay 60 bucks for it.

*for legal reasons i must clarify that I Am Not

tagging: the last however many people in my messages with no pressure at all @drunktuesdays @immoveableobject @cossont @birdcage @nothingbutchaff @vivathewilddog @amazonplanet @wrestleish