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The “keeper” of her own museums
Artist, photographer, bookmaker and maker of traveling museums, Dayanita Singh pulled on my ever searching emotional strings. Her writing, thoughts and favourite nothings stood out me among the pages of Aperture magazines. Capturing India in its truest colors of black and white raw emotion, I fell into her first works “come away closer”, she evoked nostalgia for the land of my birth.
“making pictures is maybe just 10 percent of what I do. The rest of it is just really thinking about the form, the editing and the sequence. And in that I am always looking to literature. Do I want to make a book of poems, do I want to make a sonnet? Can this become a novel? The single image on the wall is really of no interest to me.”
“I learnt withholding, restraint, knowing when to stop and focus. All that I owe to Zakir (Hussain). Great Indian classical music is all about knowing when to stop. Of not completing the story, of stoping at the point when the person says I have only heard for 5 mins. “
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Emoji
‘We had talk enough, but no conversation’ — Samuel Johnson
When do we talk?
face to face?
on the phone?
on Skype?
all of the above at the same time?
Is technology too noisy and constant that we get lost in the all the talk?
How can we return to the conversation?
Technology has advanced to allow us to easily communicate, even with those who speak different languages. Emoticons and emojis are an emerging language from the abstract space of the impersonal electronic communication world. People are making their own rules, sharing of emotional expressions and giving context to texting. It crosses boundaries in areas of language, culture and gender. As of 2017 there are 2,666 Unicode emojis.
I am doing a project on how I can use emojis as a tool for emotional expressing in a physical way. I started by material research, with mixing bees wax, natural colour, and scents. I printed 110 emojis and created a mood/story with 6 of them.
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One Broke Designer
This weekend I have been keeping tabs on my money and trying to spend as little as possible. If you want to see what went down then check out this link: https://onebrokedesigner.tumblr.com
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Empirically
[we must] open our eyes and ears each day seeing life as excellent as it is…To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid or to be full of that love which comes from a sense of at-oneness with whatever - John Cage, A Year from Monday, 1967
Marie and I are working on making a time machine. We were inspired by nature. The flow that is seen in the content movement of water in a stream. The beauty found in the changing colours and structure of a leaf. The invisable force that causes ripples in water and rustles through the treetops.
Delicately it sits on the top of the water, being moved by the elements. Being able to let go and float like on our pod while also being able to stay in control is the contradiction of this endeavour. It’s structure will allow us to be more in contact with the element in the day and a shelter from them at night. The purpose of the pod is simply an exercise in working with plastics and wood, finding a way to use these materials that allow us to experience nature without contaminating it. The functions is to be able to float on water while holding two people for a day and a night.
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Rachel Whiteread
Commonplace, banal, process, negative space. It’s seems obvious what it is, but you need to look closely to ‘understand’ the object. I like that a house is an object, just like a chair, mattress or tub. I admire the way she repeats herself in her process. Her works speaks for itself.
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A beautiful image by Michael Wolf from his series Architecture of Density. I enjoy finding small details and variations when looking closer at each window. It telling something about the person who lives there.
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The Necessity of Experience
As this is written, billions of dollars are being spent to create continents-wide information superhighways along which will flow every conceivable kind of information except one. The information bing left out of these developments is, unfortunately, the most important — termed ecological — that all human beings acquire from their environments by looking, listening, feeling, sniffing and tasting — the information, in other words, that allows us to experience things ourselves…for understanding our place in the world, ecological information is thus primary, processed information. —Edward S. Reed
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The Body Loom
Experiments on weaving with the body loom, first called a foot loom because of the way I liked to use it was attached to my foot.
When the body is the material the design cannot be static. As a tool for meditation it functions by repeated motions of weaving combined with a yoga format. Comfort is subjective so I asked my friends to help me in defining the looms limits of utility, body awareness and functionality. The meaning came from each of my materials. Here Fhilips wove for an hour and a half, with different levels of focus, changes in body positions, and found ways to keep weaving on a continuous warp.
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Diatom Slogans
Roughly five months ago I went on a walk with Sai, a Chemist from India, who moved here to work as a research fellow in the TUe. He told me about Diatoms which became an interesting topic for me. I wanted to treat them as if they had a voice, what would they say?
We all know that we are not the only living creatures on earth. There are animals, plants, bacteria, fungi and finally Protista. I began zooming into the level of the Protista’s and found a way translate that into a narrative, based on shared values. To capture the essences I wrote and designed research based slogans.
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These shapes are inspired by the transformation of a soft doughnut to a hard natural object, the air plant. These four forms are made out of clay and the last one is made out of porcelain. These last forms are particularly hard to make and most of the spiky leaves break before the form gets fired. But I have figured out some ways to make the shape stronger, by using porcelain.
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This is where we dwell. You can’t see me but that doesn't mean I am not there. I am a Diatom and I share this world with you.
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What does a Diatoms that in that live in the fresh water sources of Eindhoven look like? This is a short video I made while collecting water samples to try and help me find out. Diatoms live on the surface of the water. Here I found a log with lots of algae on it floating by the side of the Karpendonkse Plan, which I hope will have many Diatoms.
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With this project I am researching coconuts. I liked playing with the contrast of the hard shell and the soft nut. With this research I now working toward designing a new material, something that can be a delicate in-between, protecting you from the outside.
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The Kogi People
I watched the documentary called the “Kogi People, a warning from Elder brother to younger brother,” a BBC documentary made in 1990 by film-maker Alan Ereira. The Kogi people have lived for thousands of years in the Sierra Nevade de Santa Marta mountains in Colombia. These indigenous people live in a pre-Colombian society, and they live in seclusion ever since the Spanish conquest 519 [1498], years ago.
These people live in the forests, very attuned to nature. They Believe they are protecters of the world, and that they are there to care for it, and they allowed Alan Ereira to come and film in order to give this message to other people.
The Kogi don't understand why their words went unheeded, why people did not understand that the earth is a living body and if we damage part of it, we damage the whole body.
Twenty-three years later they summoned filmmaker Alan Ereira back to their home to renew the message: this time the leaders, the Kogi Mama (the name means enlightened ones), set out to show in a visceral way the delicate and critical interconnections that exist between the natural world.
The resulting film, Aluna, takes us into the world of the Kogi. At the heart of the tribe's belief system is "Aluna" – a kind of cosmic consciousness that is the source of all life and intelligence and the mind inside nature too. "Aluna is something that is thinking and has self-knowledge. It's self-aware and alive." says Ereira. "All indigenous people believe this, historically. It's absolutely universal."
Many Kogi Mama are raised in darkness for their formative years to learn to connect with this cosmic consciousness and, vitally, to respond to its needs in order to keep the world in balance. "Aluna needs the human mind to participate in the world – because the thing about a human mind is that it's in a body," explains Ereira. "Communicating with the cosmic mind is what a human being's job is as far as the Kogi are concerned.”
-https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/colombia-kogi-environment-destruction
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20161017-the-ancient-guardians-of-a-sacred-trail
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The imaged perspective of a diatom
In an environment that is familiar hides universes waiting for exploration. While walking my guide led me into the world of the microscopic, where Diatoms dwell. I learnt about their qualities and behaviours, and the important role that we all play in our shared biosphere.
What is it like to observe the world through another eyes?
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