Fiber art vol. 4 - leijuvia lankoja

Super-spiro-scripple Density Test, 2010

If you've been wondering why I write so much about fiber art that is simply because I feel that I'd love to do some also. I get inspiration from these talented women. And the last artist is Amanda McCavour. She has different and challenging technique as you can see. Work looks very fragile and it's floating in the air. I admire all these skilled women. They must have a lot of patience...

Jos ihmettelet miksi kirjoittelen juuri tekstiilitaiteesta niin selitys löytyy omasta halustani kokeilla kyseistä taidemuotoa. Mutta muutenkin on kiva kirjoitella inspiroivista asioista. Ja tekijöiden esittely tuntuu tällä hetkellä mukavalta tutustumisretkeltä muiden taiteilijoiden töihin ja työtapoihin. Kunpa itseltä löytyisi yhtä pitkää kärsivällisyyttä ja pieteettiä kuin näiltä naisilta!


Amanda McCavour

"For as long as I can remember I have been drawing and crafting things out of paper, glitter, glue, plastic beads and string. This is my foundation for an interest in material exploration. It continues to interest me that folding and cutting paper, can transform a blank sheet into a snowflake or that knotting embroidery floss can create a patterned bracelet.  It is these slight shifts in materials that still drives me to make work."

Living Room, 2010-2011 photo by Agata Piskunowitcz

"My interest lies in creating spaces and objects that lie somewhere between real and drawn. I am interested in thread's assumed vulnerability, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together."

Floating Garden (detail), 2011 photo by Cheryl Rondeau

Stand-In for Home (detail), 2009-2010

Compound Tangle (detail) 2007

I love those hands.

You can read more about Amanda here.
Her upcoming shows here.

All photos copyright Amanda McCavour. 

This is the last post of 4 fiber artists. If you haven't seen previous ones - go and see  Joetta Maue, Julia Elsas and Daniaelle Simonsen. It was great fun to make this series and thank you for being here and hope you got some good vibrations! 

Ah...one more thing. An interesting place I found just yesterday TextileArtsCenter. Great place to get inspiration, courses and something even more! And if you have someone in mind - who is also great fiber artist or artist - do tell me.

Fiber art vol. 3 - lankoja ja kauneutta

Bear Fight (detail), 2009

Daniaelle Simonsen

"I always start out with a drawing on tracing paper. From there, I make a mess of fabrics and threads on my desk and sort out what will work best for the piece. That's my favorite part of the process."

Wolf Fight (detail), 2009

Her work is beautiful. 

"I'm obsessed with loveliness. I desire to find beauty and delicacy in my subject matter, which usually contains a small piece of my life story. In that sense, I am embellishing my life to appear more ethereal and beautiful than it is or can be."

Atonement (detail), 2009

Atonement, 2009

Rise and Fall, 2012

Skilled drawing.

She will be showing her work in November in Tokyo at the Shinjyuku Ganka Gallery. It is a group show.

One more to show. There is always something new.

Sun is Going Down, 2012

If you want to know more about Daniaelle and her work go to see her website or read her blog. If you missed 2 previous artist - here they are Joetta Maue and Julia Elsas.

All photos copyright Daniaelle Simonsen. 


To be continued...with one more artist. 

Fiber art vol. 2 - kuituja ja käsitteitä

grey group 2012

Her name is Julia Elsas.  Her work differs from Joetta's a lot. Her color palette is narrower and much more minimalistic. Now with her own words and pictures. 


Julia Elsas

cyanotype 2012

"I am particularly interested in fabrics that are traditionally used in and associated with women’s intimate apparel, because I see them as suggestive of the tension between the revealed and the concealed in acts of courtship, flirtation, and sensuality."

uh-huh,yeah 2009

"I am interested in the universal human mating dance, which I see as a suspenseful and ambiguity-filled game. I explore the subtleties and tensions of desire and voyeurism."

untitled 2009

"In my work, I use my own body as the medium through which I investigate longing, self-reflection, relationships, and sexual and emotional tension."

All photos copyright Julia Elsas.

You can find more about Julia and her work from her website. 

Upcoming show:

a benefit auction at Dieu Donné: http://dieudonne.org/

Dieu Donné Benefit Exhibition
Dieu Donné
315 W. 36th Street, New York, NY 10018
September 20 - October 11, 2012
Opening Reception: September 20, 2012
Event and Auction: October 16, 2012

 

If you want to see or read more about fiber art, you can also go to see Fiber Art Now magazine or their pinterest boards. I found Bookself board most interesting. If you missed the first artist - Joetta Maue, you can find her here.

To be continued...2 more artist coming up.

Fine fiber art - tekstiilitaiteilijan jalanjäljillä

During this week I will introduce 4 interesting artists and their work. Fiber art is something that you don't see everyday, yet. But we do use different kind of fibers in our everyday living. Actually we can't live without fibers. We need our clothing and it's nice to have bed linen and carpets, towels, curtains... so many things. And what else can get as close to us as our clothing? 

Tällä viikolla esittelen sinulle 4 mielenkiintoista tekstiilitaiteilijaa. Se on mielestäni taidemuoto, joka elää edelleen hieman marginaalissa. Voin toki olla väärässäkin mutta joka tapauksessa ensimmäisenä on vuorossa Joetta Maue, jonka loistavan Connective thread -blogin kautta löysin myös nämä 3 muuta taiteilijaa, joihin palaan tällä viikolla. Mutta nyt on Joettan vuoro. 

2 sides by Joetta Maue 2012

When I started to seek and read blogs I found Joetta Maue's curated blog called Connective thread. You can find it from my blog's sidebar from category Brilliant blogs. I knew that fiber art existed but it's world was quite new thing to me. I was really glad when I found Joetta's work and many other talented fiber artists through her blog. In Joetta's work I really like the warmth of the moment. Somehow I feel that fiber art is close to my heart because it is connected to sewing, embroidery, knitting, braiding etc. I started sewing when I was very young. I made a lot of my own clothing. My dream was that I'd be a famous fashion designer someday. Well, now I'm a photographer and I love my profession. But maybe my dream is still alive somewhere in back of my head. I will just introduce these talents to you and I won't be making any interpretations about their work. I show you artist's work with their own words how they describe their starting point and work. I think that way you get best of it.


Joetta Maue

"My work starts by observing life and living it. My work documents the moments in intimacy that I want to relish and celebrate or that I want to investigate further. The text work is a documentation of the inner dialogue that occurs within ones mind in regards to love and intimacy.  I usually start with the idea and then turn that into a drawing that becomes the piece. But sometimes the idea comes spontaneously."

 And her older production...my favorite dancing girl...

she danced ... ,
hand embroidered, appliquéd, cut, and stained re-appropriated linen,

As installed at Parlour Antics, Brooklyn NY 2011

8 months,
hand embroidered, appliquéd, & painted re-appropriated linen with found cloth, 44 x 85 in. 2011

There's lot more about her and her work in her website and her personal blog littleyellowbirds.

Lisää tietoa ja kuvia Joettasta hänen omilla sivuillaan tai blogissa littleyellowbirds.


All photos by Joetta Maue.

You can find her work at the moment:

Sleepers
September 10 - October 05 2012  
Hugh N. Ronald Gallery at Arts Place. Portland, Indiana.

soon:

Self/Fabricated
September 23 – January 13, 2013 
The artists in Self/Fabricated - Ilona Anderson, David Curcio, Wylie Garcia, Jan Johnson, Joetta Maue, Leslie Schomp, and Candice Smith Corby - re-examine the use of cloth originally used for craft and domestic activity as a new means to paint or “draw” on or from...
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA. 


To be continued...

Vintage fonts - vanhat fontit

vintage matchbox series

One might say that I can't live without photoshop! I'm a photographer. But this time I had to. Photoshop Elements helped me and yes you can do basic things with that quite easily but still...anyway I found...or to tell the truth actually my husband found these lovely ones from fleemarket where we were few weeks ago in Lohja. A box full of vintage matchbox series. I think these aren't really old but still they do look quite tempting. These are made by Swedish Jönköpings Tändsticksfabricks Aktie Bolag. I do like their appearance. Art pieces in small size. 

these two are my favorite ones

I like vintage typography and lucky me I'm not the only one. I bought one really nice vintage typography book  and posted about it in June. I found fun post about Madrid's vintage sign typography in Poppytalk by Serena Olivieri and she referred to Tracy Castro's post  about Texas typography in Poppytalk. Typography is more than only appearance. What typography tells about certain place like Texas as Tracy asks. And I'm wondering what typography tells about time of these matchboxes? Certainly there is much more decorative style in those boxes what we have had for awhile in our everyday products. They look like more carefully done. They are just matchboxes but still they look like more precious because of their appearance...and lame truth might be that maybe they were only part of the time and no exception. But then I have to say I like the apppearance of that time. There's some elegant glamour in it. But the message is still the same. I mean as you can read the written text on the box... I only use Swedish matches...well that is very popular slogan - still.

Moments in time - Gdansk - Warsaw - Krakow - Auschwitz

Gdansk - wooden crane

As I promised I share now few moments in Poland with you. There were differend feelings during our days in Poland. Beautiful old buildings - or lookalikes like in Warsaw. Warm people - great friends. Unbelievable heat. Coolness of big park in the heart of the capital city. Wonderful coffee moment in cosy street. Sound of beautiful music from synagoga. Wonderful bookshop. Movement of wings of butterfly in silence and in warmth of the sun. Such a big experience as country itself. Are you ready? There's plenty to see.

Gdansk - at Pikawa cafe - wood carving

Gdansk - beautiful buldings

Warsaw - center of old town

Warsaw - old town

Warsaw - tall buildings

Warsaw - park

pretty guy

Kuten lupailin tässä muutama ruutu tai useampikin tämän kesän Puolan matkaltamme. Ison maan vieraana koimme elämyksiä - pieniä ja suuria. Kolme erilaista kaupunkia. Tulen muistamaan tämän matkan kyllä. Samalla toivon, että mahdollisimman moni - jonain aikana ja jonain päivänä - antaisivat pienen hetken elämästään niille miljoonille, joiden elämä pirstaloitui tai päättyi käsittämättömän ja äärettömän vihan uhreina. Puola oli mielenkiintoinen matkakohde.Varsova jäi kaikkein vähäisimmälle huomiolle - on siis kenties syy miksi palata ja kantapää oppimäärän perusteella voisi todeta, että perussanastoakin voisi ensi kerraksi harjoitella. 

Krakow - in the heart of the city

Krakow - at ulica sw. tomasza - wonderful cafes and restaurants

Krakow - it is cafe camelot - we sat in the window

It's funny in Krakow - you can walk streets without noticing that there's plenty of cool and interesting places and things in the corridors and inner wards. Be brave and get there. I found galleries, interesting shops like Lulu, bars and much more.

Krakow - camelot's neighbor - concept store lulu

Krakow - Calik gallery - my x-mas tree got one peguin

Krakow - kazimierz - jewish town

Krakow - charming

Krakow - font love

Krakow - foodie goes charoset

Krakow - so precise

Krakow - we are art with diana arbus

Sometimes it is hard to understand why we the mankind learn so slowly the good things but the bad things need to grow only one second. 

butterfly in auschwitz

Book to read: Night by Elie Wiesel - I read it in a train from Krakow to Berlin. And you know I'm not a good reader at all. But I couldn't stop reading.
 

Hip hip hipster and love love handmade - Hipsterin jalanjäljillä

world of Mizumi

It's been a while - I know - sorry for that but now I'm back from summer holiday and already at work...I promised you to show some pics from our train trip to Poland and Germany. Today I want to show you wonderful Handmade Supermarket which poster I saw in one shop in Berlin and of course wanted to go. There were so many sellers with good quality designs and handmade products. Market was in old Markthalle Neun in Kreuzberg. There were also great food - vegan and veggie. Fresh juices and awesome vegan burgers! Yam. I found many lovely things like Galerie Mizumi's dolls and Tillandsia known as the Air Plant. This beautiful and unique plant lives without soil. You can do many kind of displays with them. I bought 2 and I carried them in my rugbag for a one week from Berlin through Rügen and Sweden over here to Finland. They survived so did I. Great journey. I will do few Till displays in near future and post about it. Here's few photos from Handmade Supermarket and Berlin. It was really inspiring too see all that talent! 

Tillandsia

And for you to know there are going to be Handmade Supermarket in Markthalle Neun on 12.8.

9.9.  and 14.10. But you can also check these dates and more information about market here. 

i'm tasty

Onpas aikaa kulunut viimeisestä postauksesta. No loma on loppu ja työt alkoivat tällä viikolla, joten on aika palata normaaliin päiväjärjestykseen. Lupailin näyttää kuvia ja kertoa meidän reissusta junalla Puolaan ja Saksaan. Aloitan sen itseäni todella paljon kiinnostavalla Handmade Supermarketilla. Näin sitä koskevan ilmoituksen kaupan seinässä, kun kuljettiin kaduilla ja kaupoissa Berliinin Friedrichshainissa. Loistavaa toritunnelmaa löytyi Kreuzbergissa sijaitsevasta Markthalle Neunista. Monia kädentaitajia ja suorastaan mahtavaa vegaani ja kasvisruokaa. Vaikka virallisesti vegaani en olekaan - söin aivan superhyvän vegaaniburgerin! Makeita töitä ja mielenkiintoisia sisustusideoita. Mukaan lähti Galerie Mizumin nukke. Mizumin nuket ovat hurjan sympaattisia käsinmaalattuine kasvoineen. Toinen löytö oli Tillandsiat. Ne ovat kasveja, jotka eivät tarvitse multaa vaan ottavat kaiken tarvitsemansa ilmasta. Niitä voi laittaa roikkumaan katosta narulla, rautalangalla, pöydälle, vanhaan kahvikuppiin, toisten kasvien päälle. Lista on yhtä loputon kuin ideoiden kirjo. Ajattelin, että toteutan muutaman idean ja postaan siitä kuvien kera lähiaikoina. Joka tapauksessa ostin 2 kasvia ja viikon kuljetin niitä repusssani ja sain ne kuin sainkin elävänä kotiin. Markkinat olivat loistavaa silmänruokaa ja innostusta herättelevää. Seuraavan kerran markkinat ovat 12.8. 9.9. ja 14.10. Sinne vain käväisemään jos vain osuu matkan varrelle! Lisätietoja löydät täältä.

niceee

great atmosphere

old DDR candybag

by Heike Scholz

black and white

look at those eyes

delicious

history

place to be