How to make trinkets
The definition of a trinket
trinket |ˈtriNGkit|
noun
a small ornament or item of jewelry that is of little value.





Power
I think it may be in the Director.

I need to make lists
 Music needs to be louder

where is Wilde Salome?

Beklina

Lets try an alternative
on top,
not sewn in. alternate.

or under

surprise

I want to make a word generator

thirteen steps, two silver bugles, == a slight arrow

men with curly mustaches

body armor 

The Lady of Shallot

John William Waterhouse

When I am drunk I see black

Films about toy shops

I want to build a toyshop

Still haven't reached that build

Gaia is the mother of all earth, a goddess at the beginning of creation

Don't be so precious. 

Embellishment on matador dress 

Rounded Photographs

how to depict diamonds
fake goods fake gods deities

http://www.ahhness.blogspot.com.au/

paganism
keeps cropping up

why are we so obsessive over diamonds? why are diamonds so desirable?
I think peoples objects and spaces are fascinating

I think it is the light reflecting

power. darkness contained.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-AMCQUEEN

An interesting reincorporation of Orphelia,

created by Mihara Yasuhiro and photographed by Paolo Roversi   

 http://i-donline.com/2012/12/ophelia-has-a-dream/

I have a slight interest in layering sounds, but I don't think my ears are good enough

"In some cases all that is left is a name but that name is an entry point to another world"
TURNER MONET TWOMBLY

I like seductive vocabulary  

This is where layering comes into play.

Why does everything have to be outrageous and innovative to be considered interesting?
  
 

I forgot I like to hoard things

I don't like buttons but maybe you can build with buttons

The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters

broken jewellery
or perhaps
I don't mean
broken

lost jewellery
I think I could probably map out the last three or four years of my life, through a story of jewellery or charms.
I get obsessive with a necklace, I shall probably put it together, a single bric-a-brac charm on a chain.
I shall wear it. Pretty much everyday. Until one day I loose it. Or it breaks.
And its gone, the next chapter waiting to be turned. Like a perfume.

we have the LA stone, we have the two Indian tassles, we have the
I wonder if I could draw them, now that would be an interesting prospect 

there used to be a clock?
so we had a camden clock?

we may have to give in to the sneak peak

and can we remember their decease?
The Indian Tassles broke in the woods?
The clock was lost on Speed?
What disappeared in the dessert? there was a small pendant on chain of black beads?
The bottle got trampled by Wombats
Steven broke Santa Cruz 

There was the fish, I still have the fish
but where was the fish from, perhaps a horrible old bead fair in Wenville 
The fish has been consistant

There was that perculiar coin like pendant, the desert stole that one   
Oh I think I have the outline of that traced somewhere

a collection of curiosities?

http://www.foxtailandfern.com/

not finished
to be continued
in the production line
maybe
if i am not too lazy
i should be doing my essay
   

Things to explore further
I need film stills.
Parades End: Pagan Tree
Kingdom of Heaven: Sibylla 

Atmosphere and narrative 
Decorative 

Layering image on top of image 
image on top of already printed image 
scanning

there is a description about this tree that I crave. I have bought the book.

I also want to look at Judith

Klimt
Someone whom I have looked at too many times
But
Never really seen.

Someone I have only ever considered from the point of superficial beauty and freedom of pattern
And here lies Judith,
One of the greats.
Seductively holding the decapitated head of a man?

Darkness prevails

REkindle

Diamonds in the dark
Create your own world
I don't feel very 'fun' right now
why are we obsessed with fire?

Embroidery of interest

a quick flick of images from the latest issue of i-D

I should be doing my essay

 Old i-D.
 there is something about scanning in the broken image
 

To build up a collection of fascination

Salome and the dance of the seven veils.
Salome seems to have her fingers delved deep into everything
Salome's scent seems to linger 

 

 Franz von Stuck Dancing Salome 

what is this obsession with depicting Salome?

not that it isn't an obsession I am truely obsessed with.

I am obsessed.

I am unsure if is the story or the depictions themselves that have me caught.

There is something fabulously seductive with the riches of her dress

Gustave Moreau The Apparition

mixed with the darkness of the unfolding story.

"suit of jeweled armor for his Salome"

Gustav Klimt, Eva di Stafano

Neck frames and braces

A POINT OF REFLECTION

I am currently not communicating
what I want to communicate
not communicating what I want to be.

maybe not what I want to be
but not communicating what I see.

I like what I see and I see what I like

but take out the eye and nobody sees.

broken riddles and
catchphrases

different materials peculiar materials to attach to materials

nuts and screws and bolts and shark teeth

jam jars and baubles

noise could be important 
it is a battle of the senses
we have 5, or so we are led to believe

Christopher Kane, use of tape.

the subtle

and the not so much

a way to collage                tape.

In the title.

I realize I refer back to this man far more than I should considering I don't exactly agree with mort of his ethics.

But I have just realized upon another point of notice.

One thing I deem incredibly important to my practice, is the scribbling of little nothings.

I have to write as I work, almost creating a short narrative in the corners of most drawings.

But

when it comes to creating a textile piece I am not fond of the use of text

But 

it seems a shame to waste those initial thoughts.

"the air is filled with millions of thoughts"

When I went to see the Damien Hirst Exhibition at the Tate Modern this summer,

I was strangely taken with his spin paintings on show there.

Not exactly because of the image of these paintings 

But

with the titles that accompanied them.

Beautiful, demented, ubiquitous, insane, frightening, spikey, Boss, snowy, generous, Arki's 40th Love Painting (with blood on the snow), 2002

It  feels like a chain of thought being pulled straight from his mind.It doesn't impose too much of his view on the painting either.As I don't believe this painting was created with the intention of having this title.I feel as though it purely reveals something more interesting than the painting it self, it reveals a chain from the artists mind, a train he felt during reflection, or upon creation.An insight to something darker without enforcing his views upon you.   

This is something I may consider for my own practice. Using scribbled thoughts as acompaniments or titles, not leaving them for the confined corners of sketchbooks.

  

Is to attach individual beads separately too tedious? TOo messy?
Is invisible thread too plasticy?

How to create a lattice pattern?
How to create a fringing effect?

tester

Next//Current Point of Notice > To explore a background pattern of not avoiding the motif.
                                                 > And I shall put the lines closer together, on the 4 instead of the 5.

 Time to go even.

                                                > There are too many considerations to be taken into account

I like beading. It seems mathematical. 

 Reality

Diamonds are Dead. Beading is getting Bore. I need something more exciting. 

Trials and testers.

I fear I prefer the sample before the background was applied.

But that defies the point of excess.

Both of the above are indeed samples, not intended as an act of appeal.

Their pure purpose was to test the different materials and application.

Although not shown well here, the sequins have a great sense of allure. The translucent nature of them and how the light bounces of there surface creates a great sense of enticement.

(allure is a fabulous word)

So therefore is the background beneficial?

Although on a separate issue this background does not even imply excess.
but is that from the composition or from the combination?
[[combination of colour and materials]
Where is the excitement?

netting doesn't photograph very well.

I have done all of these testers of straight lines.

Purely for the intention of experimenting with the embellished background,

But they appear to have grown some form of appeal.

Perhaps more so alone than when applied to a background.

Embellishment

We need something more than pure beading. 

Where is the gluttony in a single pear drop?

It is modest and simple, a hint of the visable.

Too much space for the imagination.

I need to venture into the excessive.

points to explore:

the court of Versailles

Kaleidoscopes

excessive embroidery

  
 Scan in items

pear drops work best with the bugles//rectangular beads

you need to do a test of the excessive

   

 blur

Beauty and Magpies.
Addiction and Gluttony.

A battle of the visible.

To idealize beauty to the point of exception.
 To not question anything further than somethings visible appearance.
To bask in the pleasure of somethings image rather than tarnish it with ill-mannered thought.

This is not something I necessarily agree with but something to be explored.

There is something delightfully//dreadfully ignorant about this ideal.

A collection of beautiful things

Magpies

magpie |ˈmagˌpī|
noun
1 a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a raucous voice.

2 used in similes or comparisons to refer to a person who collects things, esp. things of little use or value

Treasure Seekers//Fragment Keepers

Reflections so far

I want to reflect on how the project has gone so far, discussing the highs and lows and outlining space for improvement. As a whole I have enjoyed this project and am indeed happy in the direction it appears to be going in for exhibition. I wish I had been able to settle on a direction to take this project in a little sooner than I did but once the decision was made I have been happy with its progress. Therefore something I am keen to work on is my time management, being stricter with myself, spending less time thinking and more time doing.
I also fear that I perhaps spent a little too much time on this idea of editing. Spending too long deciding on appropriate rules and regulations. But now this stage of my project is complete, it has worked out far better than I was expecting, having built a dialogue of its own, away from the original story. A dialogue I am keen to interpret into my final piece, as explained below.
Still along this theme of time, I would have been greatly intrigued to play around with growing my own weeds and moss, if I had allowed more time. This is something I intend to pursue in the future.
As for my final outcome, that is yet to take its own path, in the next few days I intend to play with the preservation of my dandelions, experimenting with what forms of liquid will preserve and hold its shape, without destroying the beauty of their form.

I propose,

For the exhibition,

I have a proposal,

An idea of intent,

I want to preserve dandelion seed heads in glass jars, 

treating the dandelion as a symbol of a seed bomb of the city.

Playing with both the idea;

of preserving something others would rather take out with a 

quick swipe of the lawn mower

and

of containing it, treating it as a nemesis of the city,

containing it to prevent contamination.

I plan to present this in an array of glass jars

hanging from the ceiling

a garden in the sky

labeled of course,, but where the correct information should lie,

it will be replaced by whisperings of pollen  

a fever trying to escape,,

Problem
In deciding and discovering how best to proceed towards preserving 

Formaldehyde?

On the topic of preservation, an artist whom immediately springs to mind is Damien Hirst,

an artist whom both intrigues and sickens me.
Same as applies to my earlier post of Pickled and Preserved, Hirsts animal based artworks should on morals make my blood boil, his attitude towards life is foul, setting up greenhouses to gas butterflies, paying ridiculous amounts of money for someone to kill a shark, putting the whole life cycle of a fly in a box, in a gallery, inviting the viewer to watch it as it perishes.
And he does sicken me, incredibly, but I cannot help but be intrigued, perhaps even to the extent of being attracted.
But this is off topic,

 

I am looking for a way to preserve.

Damien Hirst uses formaldehyde solution.
Although I still don't understand how this enables his pieces to float?
This could be out of complete ignorance.
But as far as I can gather formaldehyde is a liquid solution.

But what am I to use?
I need some form of clear solution that preferably is denser than water, something that preferably could set? I shall try some vegetarian gelatine? Although not particularly accurate or honest,,

To Preserve

The idea I want to play with for exhibition 

is this idea of preserving the dandelion,

but how to preserve and present is the question in hand?

Do I want them free standing or preserved in something?

But besides the point 

there is also something magical in the collected seed, 

 their lightness of touch, allows an image of levitation, 

it could be the influx, the influx of plantation

(not a very good image, difficult to photograph)

Whatever decision is made, a key point must remain in the image of the preserved,

That is what we are currently striving for,,

Conclusive:: An Idea,,
An idea for the combination,
 I want these seeds heads to be preserved, a seed bomb, being contained,
almost in such a manor as the pickled and preserved images below,
but as for the labels, the labels of little mutterings of a pollen edit,,

How to preserve, is there some kind of liquid i could use to submerge them in without destroying their form?

Interaction

To bring it all together, the exhibition is looming ever closer,

Edit Update

I am currently still working on the edit of Pollen, I have complied a stricter edit, but for clarity and conclusion, I feel it needs to be off the whole book, a slow process but it is indeed almost complete.

My aim for this finished edit is still a little unknown,

I also have a growing collection of preserved dandelions
preserving the city's nemesis,
so to speak

Pollen Update
I have yet to complete the book, but I have seemingly come to the end of the relevant parts, 
From here on out, the story continues in the dream, although potentially has some of the most beautiful narrative, it is no longer the correct narrative.
So perhaps I shall stop here.

The wait is over, time to see what has been revealed. 

I have thirteen pages of pollen narrative,
ranging from densely worded to sparsely populated.
I am happy with the result of the narrative,
and the order is has chosen for itself. 

Thoughts on Exhibition

First some notes on artists whom use growth in their practice

An artist I have previously mentioned

Anna Garforth

Garforth uses moss amongst other things as an alternative process of typography.

The work above she constructed into a small derelict area that was about to be knocked down to be renovated into flats, but Garforth snuck in first to leave them a little message.

I like the use of the moss, and am intrigued as to how first she managed to construct it and secondly as to how she sourced the moss.

I was earlier intrigued by this prospect of growing my own moss, a seemingly relatively easy process, involving blending together beer and a little moss before spraying it onto the desired surface, but a lengthily one, taking up to two seasons to grow. 

Unfortunately time is currently not on my side,

Another artist of intrigue

Martin Azua

whom by leaving pots in certain areas, lets nature determine the final outcome for him.

The pots he creates are very porous white ceramic vases, therefore allowing for mosses and other organic growths to colonize upon the surface, letting natures natural patterns to take hold.

Once again absolutely beautiful results and an incredibly intriguing idea but a lengthily process.


 As for my exhibition
I want to play with the preservation of the dandelion, with the influx of an edit of Pollen.
Preserving that, that you assume to be a weed,