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Gettin' Ready for the Next Fold Form Challenge

2/22/2014

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MARCH'S CHALLENGE IS: 
The opposite of the February challenge -- 
1. Something that has absolutely no function other than visual impact.
2. Have a significant fold form element
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It is so freeing not to have to think about making it useful or salable. An opportunity to just be able to play and experiment; doesn't have to be pretty; doesn't have to be anything but what it is, just be present in the moment... oh oh... don't want to get too deep here...
Well, I went to the gym this morning, and I always take a book with me because those cardio things, like the stationary bike or elliptical are soooo boring. I don't have a book that I'm really into, so each time I go, I've been picking something different. The last one was 'Selling Sucks' which was pretty interesting, but I didn't want to really read anymore, so I grabbed an old one off of the shelf. It's called "Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, & Philosophers" by Leonard Koren. I usually find books like this a little pretentious or not really very informative or interesting, but this was different. A couple of things it has going for it is that it's only 88 pages, has lots of pictures, and the text is pretty big! I read the whole thing during my elliptical workout and part of the bicycling.
So much of what was in that book resonated with me. Just a quick example, he lists and describes the material qualities of Wabi-Sabi which are:
  1. "The suggestion of natural process
  2. Irregular
  3. Intimate
  4. Unpretentious
  5. Earthy
  6. Murky
  7. Simple"
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, & Philosophers" by Leonard Koren. pgs 62-72



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Of course this is the very very short version, and I have just begun to dip in and explore all of this. It's a direction I have been partly headed in and would really like to pursue and think about.
Anyone out there have any thoughts on this?

Here are some links to some of the photos from the book:
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3 (This one isn't actually in the book, but I really liked it.)
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Jan Lester
2/22/2014 02:36:34 pm

Evelyn, neat comments (lol about the gym! I have a treadmill and bike at home, and I HATE just 'walking/riding' and staring at the wall, so I try to read too :)....so, what is this beautiful free-form item showing up top? is that copper ? I really am getting into finding unique forms of natural gemstones, I might have told you before, ?, but more turquoise, agates, opal, jasper (some beautiful color combos in jasper!)....and metals mostly in silver and copper. I only wish I had your talent to work with them. Recently at Tucson gem show I found a pendant that was malachite (green color) with a free form design around it in sterling...so many beautiful natural gemstones out there...thanks for the neat comments and photos!

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Evelyn link
2/23/2014 05:59:24 am

Jan that top piece is actually a close-up of a ring I made (http://www.evelynmarkasky.com/the-dangerous-vagina.html) it is copper with a Swarovsky crystal pearl in it. The wabi-sabi thing got me thinking about 'stuff!' And combined with the challenge to create something with only a visual impact... it got me thinking about perspective and looking at things up close... I'm not actually sure what the words I want to use are, yet... but I'm thinking about creating some series of things like what I have pictured here... I haven't quite formulated what it is yet, still just on the tip of my brain!!

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cynthia
2/23/2014 01:15:34 am

Beautiful photos of your work! They look like paintings.
As for w-s...
To me wabi-sabi is a very opaque & illusive concept, and -i think- difficult to to embody in an artwork in its original sense.
I may just not know enough about it yet.
How does one try to create a wabi-sabi work.
It seems the work should make itself that way. :D
As you can see, i'm confused about it all.

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Evelyn link
2/23/2014 06:31:01 am

Thanks, Cynthia! I think that it's also taking this concept and making it your own. The things that stand out to me is simplicity and honesty in the work. It doesn't sound like you are confused at all! I agree that I don't think you create a wabi-sabi work... it either is or it isn't, maybe even for just a moment...

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