Jacqueline

Woven jacket by Jacqueline Barbra Lefferts

Model: Harriette Tebbutt

houses behind plants

indoor plants

swing fashion

23rd oct, the Horniman Museum

In Horniman Museum you can almost find specimen and artifacts from every country at any age or style, it's like a mini version of Victoria and Albert Museum, but with green and beautiful garden space and buildings, standing within such a lovely space, you feel refreshed and clear.

'Victorian tea trader Frederick John Horniman began collecting specimens and artefacts from around the World in the 1860's' (the Horniman Museum site), Horniman has some of the most famous collections in the world, for example the music instruments, which I was intrigued very much.

THere is an unusually looking accordion, distinct from the common accordions in the market, regular rectangle shape on one side and the other is a keyboard resembling a tinier piano. It has the shape of a hexagon on the button side, similarly , another hexagon on the keyboard side,two boxes joint by exquisitely patterned bellow(in between the body), it makes people want to hear it sing.

ah the wisdom of human being.

christian marclay

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Chris Ofili 12 February 10

A very special and different experience, the whole exhibition, which I would describe as walking through a kaleidoscope, has drawn so much attention not just on the beauty of itself but also the techniques in which.

'His exuberant paintings are renowned for their rich layering and inventive use of media, including balls of elephant dung that punctuate the canvas and support them at their base, as well as glitter, resin, map pins and magazine cut-outs.'( Tate Britain, about the exhibition.2010)

There were more than 45 painting presented in the rooms, based on different style of paintings or drawings.

one of the biggest rooms that you entered earlier has a large and light space which allow you to access the details of paintings thoroughly, I had noticed the one with magazine cut-outs, in which Ofili created an interesting relationship between images of human forms, elephant dungs and map pin written out a few words.

The image of the painting at the top is called Afrodizzia (2nd version), 1996, lookes like a black boxing star to me, I love how the black star is painted everywhere, beautiful layering.

As you walk past quite a few rooms, soon you would see a long dark dark tunnel on your right, well, there are lights coming through from the bottom actually, but still, it gives you the feel. So you come to the 'chamber of secret', where paintings with same patterns are quietly sit all around the walls and one of my favorite is the one above, detailed gold patterns against the rich colored swirls, with a big dung on the head, wit.

In another room,Chris Ofili has created panels of pencil and watercolor portraits, the rhythm of which filled the room with joy. Some drawings looks like he did it from the front of the person while some from the side, and the exaggeration of man's beads added personality to it. It seems that each character carries a story of his own and you want to hear what they say.

object ana lysis research

To discuss how different patterns were brought out by people according to their experience.

Distinct experience enables people to create individually.

I’m interested in the sort of non verbal communication we share with patterns and imagery and to understand this process will potentially improve my skills and ideas of making one.

I’m going to look into different period of time in modern history, discussing how people dressed and decorated houses with the use of patterns in response to their lifestyle and feelings.

Also, places varies so does patterns, I will research on patterns created in different cultures and times, finding out what was reflected on those people.

Extra note: the original concept of the essay has changed over the group discussion and individual tutorial.

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in between space

there are plenty of space.

DEC4 the Blythe house

The Blythe House is one of the Victoria and Albert Museum's growing archives holdings, mainly with Art and Designs collections, the building looked very smart on a cloudy day and entering is another feeling, seeing all the desigh collections on the wall as you went past the corridors to the room where we had detailed looks at some precious textiles pattern collections from the victoria time till recent 30 years.

they told us about how these samples were kept in a well-managed sample book, one company called Heals has got a few large sample books in very good condition, recorded their designs for more than 50 years. it is a good idea to keep your own sample book updated for when you need to find out about one single pattern.

I also had looked at some beautiful weaving samples with blurry image weaved on them, I was attracted to the technique and wanted to experiment with it.

It was a very impressive experience to come cross such large amount of design collections, I enjoyed it and glad to be able to use it later on as my reference for my work.

Ethnical Fashion

The Global Sourcing Marketplace Event

We always hear words like fairtrade,organic farming and so on in the news but often don't have a very clear clue of how it works for people who benefit from it and this event offered me a chance to understand the sustainable textiles.
They believe that this is the way to go for fashion industry in the future, or in another word, considering returning to what fashion once was, making clothes and accessories out of natural materials that give no harm to the environment. At the same time, in that way people get to be provided with better working conditions and higher wages.

There are a couple of companies that intrigued me, the Ecoboard,a fibre board made from different sort of waste or recycled material, it is a very sustainable way of making cardboards and you won't be able to tell the difference from those normal ones, they are either bio-degradable or recyclable. The artisan life, unique handcrafted jewellry imported from South America, all these ivory looking accessories are made of a kind of fruit called Tagua that comes in different colors, so organic and clever.
No like all the other kinds of fruits, they would go rotten before you get to eat them, imagine, how great it would be if you can save them before they are wasted by transforming them into something to wear.

The Faitrade Certified Cotton appears to be more sustainable than the other one from the cotton company called BioRe.

2nd year show

The second year textiles show at chelsea is quite an inspiring experience, there were a lot of artists' work that took the attention from everyone who went to see it.

it was divided into different areas, the print/cad, the knit, the stitch and the weave. On the first floor, there were one knitwear that I was specifically interested in, can't really remember her name anymore, but it was a knitted top with colors gradually fading into each other, beautifully done and had this silky texture to it which makes people want to put it on.

Going on to the second floor, there were more works appealing to me, one corner at where those colorful tables and bags were displayed, I took a detailed look at the design of the table made out of stripes of latex mixed with colors,the artist Stephanie Deaves made very intriguing as it is generically unique in terms of the concept and the way of presenting.

I think walking a bit backwards, you would notice a little space with a sketchbook and simple and pretty prints from the artist called Anna Lepparen, whose work is about exploring the lightness and pressure of the underground tunnels, remains of previous posters and Gerhard Richter's paintings. I enjoyed the idea of exploring paintings, as it is like doing translation, from one language to another.

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RUBBING

TELLING TALES 30th Oct V&A Visit

This exhibition gave me a feeling of everything

being at a wrong place at a wrong time,

it's very fairylike and surreal to have the

combinations of functional furniture with unique

symbolic meanings.

I liked the Forest Glade, the sound effects and

the intriguing objects made us surrounded by the imagery of birds

and trees or perhaps even the imagery of us

feeling sleepy and climbing onto the bed or

getting locked up in the wooden wardrobe.

With the dark lighting, it derived more tension and mystery.

The artists displayed these works in the order of

the time lines and the narrativity they applied in each section

is inspiring ,creating visually exciting collections of objects.

Having mentioned tales, the little red riding hood, the snow white,

and the cinderella, apart from the forrest, the castle is also very important assumedly.

The Enchanted Castle has got one very shiny glossary wall, on the other side, some beautiful

patterned wall paper, decorating half of the room into a Queen or King's bedroom.

I'm more into the shiny part with a number of wonderfully weird teapots or containers, tables and clocks, designed and made in the same technique and materials as original objects, however, changing the sequences of how to put things together and using bright almost dazzling colour have taken viewers to somewhere glorious that they might want to linger for long.

It was very crowded in the 2nd chapter, soon as you walk into the 3nd, Heaven and Hell, where the artists lead people to go through different purgatories by exposing them with disturbing objects. And the funny thing is , there were three rooms and they were almost empty, it seems that people all walked past this section going straight towards their heaven, anywhere but not there.

rough guide

I had read a book about an American writer,

named Helene Hanff visiting London

and bloomsbury(a real story about herself),

in which she stayed for 2 monthes was very intriguing,

the atmosphere of the streets, the conversations made with

the people and little hotels that filled with guests.

The book was first published in 70s, in response to what she had described,

the area changed little. From what I read, traveling in

another country is a big thing and it'd always take them

over 1 year or two to plan and gather the expenses so when they did get

a chance like she did, they must be ecstatic.

There are a lot of beautiful bookshops in this area,

dealing especially with rare out-of-print books.

The One that was on 84 charing cross road appeal to me the most.

Another book mentioned how handy and sweet this bookshop was,

but in the end from the same author I found out

it was shut down about 50 years ago which explained why there is no no.84 whatsoever.

The first thing I chose from the market stall is a red mirror,

could be fold in and pull out with effortless effort.

From the smell you can tell it's quite old and with the scratches

on the mirror itself, it brings out more history.

I like the fact that its shape can be changed as you pull,

from rectangle to triangle and the reflections change too, rapidly.

There are words emerged from my mind when I look at it, lighting and grandma.

And I chose an image of sets of barbies, it was the wallpaper in a shop in Soho,

every barbie is wearing something different,

which to me is like looking at patterns within patterns.

It's apparent these barbies are not in a current trend but they still look nice,

just like someone who would use the mirror I found.

At last there is a painting in the National Gallery that I want to talk about,

Les Andelys, the Washerwoman, 1886, oil on canvas by Paul Signac.

This is his first painting in a neo-impressionist style,

the highly geometric composition has inspired me

to create depth in my drawings and designs.

I can see the scene was animated vividly that

the river seems to be running peacefully on its surface and

the painting gently floats out of itself.