“I think I became an artist because I realized I needed a field in which the construction of fictional authorities and imagined quotes would be a cause for celebration rather than […] disgrace” (14)
– Wm. Kentridge
Six Drawing Lessons
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Quote
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Fixing books
When you start to notice something suddenly it's everywhere. Here's another piece on repair, this time on books, by Christopher Jobson from Colossal (The Ingenuity and Beauty of Creative Parchment Repair in Medieval Books, Nov 7 2014; 10 Jun 2016.) A quick peek at the Erik Kwakkel's blog about medieval manuscripts suggests theres' more to learn there...
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
And it is inching toward reality...
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| The wind has been crazy the last couple of days! Trying to get a good shot for the catalog is challenging... |
More maintenance
I didn't love Interstellar, but it did strike a chord with me.
The film's long set-up describes a world where no chances can be taken because society can no longer afford them. Being part of a generation that was too late for the babyboomers' party and always knew it would be in charge of the clean up, I saw something painfully familiar in the story where characters were encouraged to go into farming and discouraged from breaking new ground through exploration.
Maybe that's what has me following all this stuff on maintenance and repair (which I've tagged this and other recent posts with). If you Google images of 'maintenance' you get hundreds of faceless drones like those below> they generally hold hand tools, but some of them have wrenches and computer keyboards, implying that a wrench is used to keep a computer up. Clearly, the world is screwed.
Either way, I had the same sort of grim recognition when I read Laura Bliss' essay in the Atlantic's 'Citylab' ("How 'Maintainers,' not 'Innovators,' Make the World Turn", April 16, 2016). So I wanted to add it to this list...
At some point we'll get to how all this fits together. For now...there's a clean up on aisle three...
The film's long set-up describes a world where no chances can be taken because society can no longer afford them. Being part of a generation that was too late for the babyboomers' party and always knew it would be in charge of the clean up, I saw something painfully familiar in the story where characters were encouraged to go into farming and discouraged from breaking new ground through exploration.
Maybe that's what has me following all this stuff on maintenance and repair (which I've tagged this and other recent posts with). If you Google images of 'maintenance' you get hundreds of faceless drones like those below> they generally hold hand tools, but some of them have wrenches and computer keyboards, implying that a wrench is used to keep a computer up. Clearly, the world is screwed.
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| What you find when you look for 'maintenance' online... |
At some point we'll get to how all this fits together. For now...there's a clean up on aisle three...
Monday, June 06, 2016
This might be going too far....
Mitchell, Nancy. "Broken is Beautiful: The Japanese Tradition That Makes Broken Things Even Better than Brand New". Apartment Therapy. 19 May 2016. 6 Jun 2016. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/broken-is-beautiful-kintsugi-makes-broken-things-even-better-231069?crlt.pid=camp.pEvil9o3aFse
Article identifies the practice as kintsugi.
Sunday, June 05, 2016
More on Mending
Wanted to add this piece by Felicia x on Visible Mending to the list of things on repair I've put here...will have to go back and make a tag for them now...
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