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Louise Bourgeois- Ode à l’oubli

- thought of making a book from fabric before seeing this, but felt  reassured in my choice once I saw it. it reaffirmed my idea.  

- inspired by the appliqués, embroidery, patterns, book structure itself.

- neutral cotton canvas ‘pages’ with ... stuff on them. some knitted pages (paper yarns? cotton yarns? wool yarns?). the rest of the ‘material’ part of fibres (nettle, bamboo, wood, rope, hair(?)) to be incorporated in the book as material to make patterns with.
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taken from the archives of the MoMA
taken from the archives of the MoMA
taken from the archives of the MoMA
taken from the archives of the MoMA
taken from the archives of the MoMA  
via blog.carimateo.com
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 hermann de vries- Ode à l’oubli

- samples of earth, minerals, pigments personally collected by the artist on his trip to mount St Victoire. These samples were then presented on a white canvas, based on where they were taken from.

- he is known to have said that Paul Cezanne represented Mt. St Victoire but that he, hermann de vries, physically showed a piece of Mt. St Victoire (translated from a quote by Loic Fel, Phd in philospohy, specialist in scientific epistemology, co-founder of COAL association in France, heard on a podcast ‘l’Art et l’Environnement’ on radiofrance.fr)

- this was interesting to me because it was a physical representation of the artist’s perspective form his trip to Mt. St Victoire, in the same way that my book could be seen as a physical representation of my mind map. where this is going I don’t know yet.
Paul Cezanne- La montagne Sainte Victoire vue de Bellevue (source: wikipedia)

Herman de Vries- From Earth, pays de Cézanne. (source: https://sfecologie.org/regard/r19-esthetique-verte-clavel-et-fel/)


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Inspiration for the structure of the book :

- 3D/sculpturalness of the book. Like Abakanowicz, I want people to enter my personal world of fibre... somehow, through its sculpturality.  The physical action of lifting a flap, held in place by a piece of string, helps the viewer discover my world and by extension be included in it. hopefully. 

- ideally, when completely open out flat, the book should look like a kind of mind map, my mind map.   

- the stories from the book can be opened out like a scroll? instead of a flap it’s a scroll? 

- should the flaps be held upright using sticks? 

- forget: transparencies, box-like structure, flip-out structures

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Inspiration for the content of the book :

- croché influence (from my maternal grandmother), put in the knitting page(s)? use that knitting technique from the knitting workshop?

- play with colours to emphasize the connectivity of the ‘topics’:
_red embroidery thread as the main connecting thread throughout every page
_purple embroidery thread to emphasize the stories and how they relate to other ‘topics’ (how they connect to one another)
_etc...

-embroidery to be the main way of ‘making’ patterns (?)- embroidery being my paternal grandmother’s influence throughout my childhood.

- the ‘stories’ introduce the ‘topics’, in fictional form? or ‘did you know that?’ form? printed on paper then appliqueed onto the fabric? Riso-printing?

- key words, terms, topics printed by hand? natural dye ‘ink’/paint?

- I like the scrapbook-ness of it. it looks