tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039557548294092532024-03-18T20:51:30.531+02:00Idle NeedleAnikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-26523367203646575052024-03-11T12:30:00.027+02:002024-03-18T20:50:56.040+02:00new life for a VHS tape's slipcase - VHS kasettikotelon uusi elämä VHS tapes are toxic, but the cardboard cases could have a new life. As a journal, for example.I arranged a bookbinding workshop at work to fulfill one of my course assignments. We reused the slipcovers of VHS tapes as book covers.There were old comics from the same era to upcycle into decorative pages and to add interesting detail inside the journals.The workshop was a success, it was nice Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-47069346006364171042022-11-29T20:21:00.002+02:002023-09-28T19:13:55.257+03:00improvised mending - sashikoidut joulufarkutLast week my son needed a xmas outfit for the pre-xmas school disco.There
was a pair of red ripped jeans waiting in the wardrobe, we bought it
together in the summer when he got inspired by all the ripped jeans I
was altering for my textile art project.The
red jeans fit him well, but it's winter here so I quickly applied some
sashiko-inspired mending to it. I had a couple of evenings to get Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-21224179754051840132022-11-16T19:24:00.004+02:002022-11-23T20:05:32.803+02:00Xmas journals - Jouluinen kirjansidontaAt work I have spent some weeks since September making journals for the upcoming Xmas craft boutique.I knew I should just plan to make two or three books, because I was also getting started out on my studying journey to become a handicrafts tutor. However, after a rummaging research I ended up on ten must-make journals - the fantastic selection of xmas papers and findings got a firm hold on my Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-81988800827717390742022-08-10T12:15:00.004+03:002022-11-16T17:48:12.394+02:00Decay Garden - eli minun LahopuutarhaThese pieces - Decaying log, Dead tree and Umbilical cord - rose out of feelings relative to human activity in and as part of nature. Nature is perfect in its creations and resolves, it becomes obvious that there is always inbuilt mechanisms, as well as natural circumstantial dynamics to ensure that when the original function ends usefulness still continues.A tree for example. A tree dies Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-58746204664757721612022-08-06T20:31:00.000+03:002022-11-16T15:59:01.504+02:00t-shirts as message carriersI left the t-shirt piece to begin work on to last because I had some
internal conflict about the ethics of cutting up a perfectly usable,
undamaged clothing item to repurpose. It came from the same black binbag
as the broken jeans and scraps, nevertheless it wasn't faulty.Then
I was focusing on why I liked and why I disliked this t-shirt, pretty
much in the same time. I liked it becuse it Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-17135868354332341962022-08-02T13:12:00.002+03:002022-08-02T13:12:30.875+03:00bird & beetle progressUsed wool rowing to needle felt the base shape of the woodpecker, it is delightful to sew onto.Thinking about the Y shape to incorporate as the beak, or as the antennae in the beetle. Not sure.But will definitely use wool as the base for the beetle as well.Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-38391571189509578242022-08-02T13:06:00.000+03:002022-08-02T13:06:13.718+03:00newer additionsI felt like a darker ‘canvas’ with less holes was needed to express the full circle of ideas in the conversation of this process. The perfect pair was found in a charity shop, again.At home I came across an outgrown pair of denim shorts from my son, its fabric has become very very soft and quite fragile from the many washes it must have endured (it was a second hand purchase - at least one child Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-14769971856944724262022-08-02T13:05:00.001+03:002022-08-02T13:05:33.757+03:00horizontal death, vertical death (of a tree)Continuity through ending. Tree dies on its “feet”. A tree falls to the forest floor. Meaning a beginning to two different types of new habitat that the living tree wasn’t yet, or was only the beginning of.Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-35869366195383082212022-07-23T00:01:00.004+03:002022-07-23T00:01:54.869+03:00further Y's Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-75201712274008493232022-07-22T21:36:00.007+03:002022-07-22T21:36:56.330+03:00mapping the holesCharting the rips and tears in my 'canvas' - what goes where, what could be expressed and how. The frayed fringes that get cut out from some of the holes during prep are all saved up for potential use later. Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-74264976291098415982022-07-18T12:22:00.004+03:002022-07-21T20:51:20.280+03:00hyoid - it's a YThe interesting Y shape that is the woodpecker's tongue. It's not as
simple as the Y shape, but nevertheless. I like how it ties in, and
informs my woodpecker element further in this work.Research: Woodpecker skull biomechanics (illustrated)Structural analysis of the tongue of a woodpecker (and domestic chicken)Woodpecker tongue from aboveAnikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-50669050493296963022022-07-16T19:43:00.004+03:002022-07-21T20:52:42.325+03:00reconstructed continuity...or perhaps imagined or wished continuity. The Y shape as a natural form and growth progression has been playing on my mind. I tied little roots on my y shaped sticks, to carry the thought/process further.Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-35002672284231225602022-07-16T19:40:00.003+03:002022-07-21T20:53:05.499+03:00purpose, viewpointsHalf jeans - not useful as jeans, as for wearing. Their purpose was to represent the new products in a wholesale environment, to show what is available in the coming season from the particular producer. Their purpose is also to save material and work output, as in halve the effort and raw material put into producing these smaples. However, after they fulfilled this one and only purpose, they haveAnikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-53268582132532389162022-07-16T19:39:00.002+03:002022-07-21T20:53:25.641+03:00new additionMending, reinforcing, fusing, one supports the other, and the other supports the one.I felt like the pair of jeans with a torn area at the crotch was a good colour to embroider on but not holey enough for the mending aspect. So went to hunt out a more holey one. It was found in a charity shop.I realized that it could be melded with the original pair for support - I have been thinking about havingAnikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-84142775724378779122022-07-16T19:36:00.002+03:002022-07-21T20:53:45.161+03:00YThis shape occurs in nature EVERYWHERE. In us, on many levels, in plants, in animals, in minerals, visible and microscopic.Legs sprouting from a torso, fingers from a palm, branches from a tree trunk, twigs from a branch, antlers from a deer's skull, blood vessels, veins in a leaf, a nervous system, a root system, atoms organising into a chrystalline arrangement...is it a lung, is it a tree, is Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-84716500070377265672022-07-05T09:49:00.004+03:002022-07-21T20:54:14.737+03:00materials and colourwaysI have been separating materials to begin on the project, thinking in tree bark, logs, forest floor, moss, lichen, woodpecker and timberman beetle. Still found the sum of the selected colours too colourful. Too uncentered in a way.So I took the colour of the base material ie the pair of jeans, the leather jacket as the driving colour for each piece respectively. Almost sure that the bird and the Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-37106497035579940592022-07-05T09:25:00.003+03:002022-07-21T20:55:31.018+03:00tree bark Textures of tree epidermis.Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-62709312464264523682022-07-05T09:22:00.003+03:002022-07-21T20:55:57.990+03:00woodpecker, timberman beetle Research:Lahopuut elinympäristönäRotting logs as habitatValkoselkätikkaSarvijaakko Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-1777299376479143542022-07-02T14:30:00.006+03:002022-07-21T21:06:23.195+03:00two weeds / viewpointsWhat makes a plant a weed? Assigned meaning, a function that is observed from a certain point of view.Nettle. Found last autumn on the balcony growing unnoticed in a flowerpot. One of its young leaves was put under our toy microscope.White goosefoot or lambs quarters. Grows anywhere, even in sand and other poor quality soil. Its leaves are meant to be highly nutritious. In Hungarian it has a Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-22492136304332529332022-07-02T11:59:00.003+03:002022-07-21T21:06:53.930+03:00roots... of the visible and the imagined kind.Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-26282042843830950392022-07-02T09:28:00.005+03:002022-07-21T21:07:21.069+03:00wood grainLines and textures.Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-74306212107315491402022-07-02T01:12:00.006+03:002022-07-21T21:07:39.089+03:00found objectsThe perfect base materials to work my idea out on emerged by chance, from two black bin bags.All rendered dysfunctional by different reasons - worn out, worn through, gone out of fashion, frayed, faded, off-cut, disowned.Lost their original meaning, lost their intended function. They became a surplus, a problem, a waste. In a natural, perfect system, they would be instantly transformed, in Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-79807058879055781822022-07-02T00:33:00.010+03:002022-07-21T21:08:15.278+03:00scribblesI had an idea for an art piece lately, and my head is constantly working on it, thoughts are rolling out, branching off and diving deeper, searching for the solutions for the visual dilemma. My eyes seeing research and reference material everywhere.The other day before going to work, I had to set up and photograph such a fractal of this bubbling idea. Then at work while trying out a sashiko Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-58966320830692170852022-06-22T18:52:00.006+03:002022-07-20T21:48:30.629+03:00a new beginningI am reviving the blog to investigate and explore my interest in reusing thrown-away textiles ie. textile waste. I don't much like this word 'waste' in this textile context. I like to think of textile waste as potential raw material for creating new textile works. I know I'm not alone with this, and its definitely not a new idea... it has been interesting to me since childhood, so it is Anikóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00721360706602596986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503955754829409253.post-59511410130054700632016-09-01T15:40:00.027+03:002022-07-20T21:51:51.301+03:00a summer spent playing
A sun-drenched, accidental photo from one of our many playground trips. I love that cute little face in the reflection - it's a pensive little train driver you are looking at.
I find myself wanting to post here again - again, quizzical about how to ease back into it. My feeling tells me that a series of photos describe better how our summer's been than words:
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