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nan’s curtains I’ve asked a friend’s husband who makes small scale carousels from scratch (they are amazing!), if he can come up with a mechanical device to make the curtains open and close;- I think he likes a challenge. He’s […]
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nan’s curtains 18 sets of 1/12th size remade curtains, each approx 14 x 21 cms. Almost there. Thinking about what we actually ‘do’ with curtains, led me to consider the repetitive motion of opening and closing curtains every day. Curtains […]
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nan’s curtains So I’m thinking whilst making – that’s a good place to be in. Thank you Elena. Better to relax into the work, meaning will begin to take hold. Though I have to admit already I see where these […]
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nan’s curtains Yes, it is driving me mad. Each pair of curtains is taking an hour to complete. But I will get there and when I do, I think I will know why : D At the moment, it feels […]
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nan’s curtains An interesting comment posted from Marion Michell has got me ruminating about minature scale. Because the curtains are tiny, it’s as if they are in the distance. And it made me think of a Father Ted sketch. http://youtu.be/vh5kZ4uIUC0 […]
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Nan’s Curtains One finished pair of minature curtains. This photo shows them balanced on a hook but they will have their own attachments similar to the real thing. Thinking ahead to finishing all 18 sets of curtains and then figuring […]
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Nan’s Curtains The curtains are tiny, only 11cms wide. 18 sets of doll’s house curtains that crucially will not reside in a doll’s house. And thinking about scale, it reminds me that we are big, even outsized in comparison and […]
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Nan’s Curtains Everyone has curtains but why give them away… we get bored and fancy a change. Good thing that whoever previously hung these curtains wanted to get rid. I found them in a second hand store. My plan is […]
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Ebay pictures Photographically speaking, EBay images are ‘pictures’;-deliberate and staged, (unlike the ‘snap shot’ which captures a moment). They have the amateur, home spun quirky quality about them that appeals to me. All EBay photos share the same purpose, they […]
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EBay heaven The best EBay photos show a snippet of the seller’s life; that bit in the background just behind the sofa for sale that they couldn’t squeeze out of the frame; the bad carpet, dying plant, dirty window or […]
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sky drawings These drawings were made in response to the site. I’m asking myself why I have begun to draw the body, particularly in an unfinished, disembodied and floating state. They are so simple and naive they remind me of […]
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sky drawings (site specific drawings on perspex, held up to the sky and photographed) I’ve limited theses types of drawings to the sky and the ground, it seems that everything in between is not required… These drawings are made in […]