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“Thousands of bird species cut out from the New York Times move as a coloured swarm cloud through small alleyways and over the pavement. With New York City as a decor on the background, they map the route of the wind.”
Website: Lotte Geeven
Poem written by: Jan Hanlo
Imagine yourself driving in the Dutch countryside and all of a sudden on an empty road in the middle of nowhere there is this bridge. Thank god it’s a quiet road because I can imagine you hit the breaks, u-turn or do other wacky actions just to get another look.
The bridge, located in Sneek in the Netherlands, somehow looks both revolutionary and familiar. The construction reminds of the wooden frames for boatbuilding, the contour is reminiscent of the farms in Friesland.
But the bridge is also the first heavy traffic road wooden bridge in the world. Made from “Accoya® wood it can support the heaviest load class of 60 tons. Spanning 105 feet and rising more than 50 feet in the air, this impressive structure forms a beautiful and dramatic connection between two …… industrial areas
OAK Architects is a collaboration between Achterbosch Architectuur and Onix architects
Little girls, this seems to say,
Never stop upon your way.
Never trust a stranger-friend;
No one knows how it will end.
As you’re pretty, so be wise:
Wolves may lurk in every guise’.
As a little girl Hinke Schreuders used to dream about being Little Red Riding Hood. Wandering in a dark wood she meets the wolf and just before he eats her she would wake up.
Nowadays Little Red Riding Hood keeps returning in her work. The story is known as a symbol for the dangers girls can ran in their path in life. But, is Little Red Riding Hood really a neat girl?
The original story, written by Charles Perrault in 1683, is a little different from the one familiar to us. Here Little Red Riding Hood does a striptease for the wolf, then crawls naked in his bed and at the end the wolf eats her. No rescue here. It was meant to be a warning to the young ladies of nobility; they had better not be tempted or otherwise …
In the course of the centuries the story changed. In the fairy tale we read to our children, an observant hunter accidentally in the neighborhood rescues Little Red Riding Hood. He frees her from the belly of the wolf and they live long and happy ever after. As the neat compliant wife she should be.
The embroidery technique Hinke Schreuder uses is a technique associated with the good, diligent housewife but at the same time her work shows a duality between sexual self-awareness and innocence, neither seems to promise a template for Utopia nor complete despair.
Her Little Red Riding Hood shows us two sides of the girl. There is the “good girl” and there also is the girl being seduced to leave the right path. Because she might want to go her own way, because she’s looking for adventure. Or because she actually wants to be seduced by the wolf
Website: www.sudsandsoda.com
A long walk at the beach made me think about my roots. I grew up near Scheveningen, which is an old fisherman’s village where women used to wear beautiful traditional costumes. When I was a little girl there already weren’t many woman left who actually wore these costumes but my friends grandma was one of them. She taught me the meaning of the different garments and how and when to wear them. I loved these clothes especially the laced headgear with the golden ornaments and the blood coral necklaces.
Nowadays the number of wearers has dropped below 80, mostly elderly women. And no, I don’t think we should go back in time and start wearing these costumes again, we would look really silly but I do think it would be a shame if we forgot the techniques.
That is what the fashion designers Alexander van Slobbe and Francisco van Benthum must have had in mind when they (guest) curate the exhibition Gone With The Wind.
They invited high-profile Dutch designers of fashion, jewellery and accessories, stylists, photographers and illustrators to give an inspiring picture of the wealth of ideas latent in the Dutch world of fashion and how it relates to the Dutch dress tradition.
I think I like to wear some of these on my next walk on the beach while waiting for the fisherman to return home safe and I wouldn’t look silly
Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen (22 March – 22 November 2009)
I once met someone who collected old family portraits because he felt sorry for the people in it. He thought that they would be very sad knowing they ended up in a garbage can because nobody cared anymore, so he made it his task to save them.
It was a wonderful story and the same feeling came right back to me when I saw the work of Anthony Goicolea.
Inspired by old studio portraits of his long-dead relatives, he reproduced them in pencil as if they were negatives, and then photographed them as missing-person posters – appended to streetlights, trees and buildings.
The result is a series where I find, in Goicolea’s words, “the strange sense of nostalgia for something I have never been a part of or experienced directly.”
Website: www.anthonygoicolea.com
Surfing the net, not looking for anything in particulair .. STOP, what is this? .. Walton Ford, who is .. how is it possible I .. want that .. have to go to New York .. absolutely .. Taschen website .. Panacha Tantra ..
”I can’t afford one of his paintings (or even this book) but I can dream.”
Naturalist-gone-nuclear’s intricate, dazzling, and sometimes disturbing life-size watercolors. All painted with great technical skill. At first glance you think antiques until you notice some animals are engaged in ‘unnatural’ behavior. Walton Ford is Audubon on acid
Website: www.paulkasmingallery.com
Seemingly innocent children toys act as a kind of space invaders emerging from a world hidden inside our childhood memories. Here they invade antique Chinese furniture, threatening their traditional past. These toys reveal a surreal and terrifying landscape of derailed trains, drowning babies, crashing planes and wild dinosaurs. They make me question my self-constructed environments, shake up my make-believe worlds and throw them off centre. Out of the confusion a far more powerful world develops, beyond the clarity of logic.
Inside the chaos there is often another unexplored world, offering new possibilities in sense making.
The work of Wokmedia is primarily concerned with the emotional experience, an archetypal memory or a physical sensation. Often they survey the state in-between: where structure emerges from chaos and confusion is beginning to make sense. Out of devastation and destruction they create a new world. A world imbedded in their childhood memories when emotions were not expected to be filtered, when make-believe was not equated with lunacy.
Website: www.wokmedia.com
It has been really nice weather for quite a while now but make no mistake; I live in a country where it actually rains a lot. Like most people here I hate rain! It seems some Dutch designers got inspired by that sentiment.
First Gerwin Hoogendoorn came up with the SENZ, a truly revolutionary umbrella. Now, Frederik Molenschot & Susanne Happle introduced their Solid Poetry tiles in Milan, the design only shows itself when it rains. Then, the water exposes leaves and flowers in the material of the tile, changing the environment in a surprising way and leaving a wonderful pavement that literally grows under your feet.
Let it rain!
Website: www.frederikmolenschot.nl
Sometimes I forget about an artist for a while. So when I rediscovered the Namaiki book in my libary I googeled them to see what they’re up to these days.
What a pleasant surprise!
Namaiki which means naughty or rebel in Japanese is actually graphic designer David Duval Smith and architect Michael Frank. They’ve been doing insanely colourful objects and installations, mad graphics and psychedelic videos since the mid-’90s.
And now they added another level to their fun and light-hearted installations by switching literally to more natural grounds.
Want to know more about their inspiring thoughts as to why ending up working with living things is just the most interesting thing to do…, here is a great interview with the Namaiki Designers published in PingMag.
Website: namaiki.com
Combining the silence of Edward Muybridge’s pictures with the association-rich composition of a still life, Martin Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and stops us just at the moment of transformation. And it’s this moment of transformation that provides for us something that we normally cannot see. It is an in-between state where rest and motion can exist together.
Website: www.martin-klimas.de