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Photos and audio of dreamers, visionaries, eccentrics, hermits and those who live outside.
Filed under Adornment
Images Form A Live Work Space.
Sustaining a creative and inspiring living space can be really difficult, especially if you live with other people. For the longest time my home and studio have existed in two different worlds. One world allowed for total self-expression, inspiring new ideas and ultimately new bodies of work. While the other suffered from preconceived ideas of home and various gender roles issues- always feeling ridged and under stimulating. Previous attempts to blend both worlds have been unsuccessful.
I have spent the past seven years or so, investigating ideas of space and the identities within spaces. One exercise in exploring space was to read (almost seven times now) “Poetics of Space” by Gaston Bachelard- a collection of ideas addressing the psychodynamics of space. With Foreword by John Stilgoe, Bachelard is said to challenge our understanding of the spaces we dwell. “Beyond his startling, unsettling illuminations of criminal cellars and raisin smelling cabinets, his insistence that people need houses in order to dream, in order to imagine, remain one of the most unnerving, most convincing arguments in western philosophy. “
We do need homes to further personal growth and continue to dream…The home must house both worlds (our passions and daily expressions) but also must lend it’s self to familiarity. With a new found sense of free time, I am working on making a union between studio and home. The hope within the new space is to sleep, make, do, think, write, read, cook, and share.
Taxonomic Collection of Stilled Life
New works completed during Boise City AIR Fall 09.
By Rachel Irene Reichert
Whitehead & Hoag
Whitehead & Hoag LLC was one of the largest advertisement firms in the world at the turn of the century. The company manufactured and sold buttons, badges, banners, flags and an almost infinite variety of advertising novelties in celluloid, metal, ribbons, silk and woven fabrics. They had huge contracts with companies like: Boeing, US Governtment, Guiness, Bud, Bass Ale, Starret, Bartels, Worlds Fair, and hundres more. They were also responsible for the patent of “Celluloid” A high quality compound used for printing that made the prints more durable and vibrant in color.
For more info on the Whitehead & Hoag LLC visit:
http://www.cresswellslist.com/ballots2/backppr.htm
Maria Fernanda Cardoso
Filed under Fashion, Flora & Fauna
Ravishing Beasts at the Museum of Vancouver
http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/exhibition.php?id=7
http://www.ravishingbeasts.com/
Displaying the Museum of Vancouver’s extensive collection of taxidermy for the first time in decades, Ravishing Beasts investigates the provocative and strangely alluring world of taxidermy.
Whether a hoarding of exotic curiosities, a scientific archive, a hunting trophy, or a stuffed pet, taxidermy always exposes longings to capture animals and tell stories about their significance within human lives.
The exhibition confronts viewers with the visual power of taxidermy. It invites us to examine taxidermy’s cultural aesthetic, scientific history, and revival in art and design, and to question the legacy, current value, and future relevance of the practice.
Exhibit in English and French
guest curator Rachel Poliquin, exhibit design Kevin McAllister, exhibit graphics Burnkit
*No animals were harmed for this exhibition. Most of the taxidermy that will be on exhibit is from the Museum’s own collection and was acquired primarily between 1894 and 1950 from Vancouver residents.
Filed under Taxidermy
