Wearable painting, standing alone as sculpture in the studio, ready to be embodied and become alive.
The wire armature holds the delicate paint leaves, flowers and robust nests woven from strips of acrylic paint. ‘My home is my nest my body is my home’, is a performance painting by Gabrielle Kruger in collaboration with Cape Ballet Africa and presented by Galerie EIGEN + ART.
At the heart of Cord's 'Album '91' collection is craft, hand embroidery, appliqué, smocking, and patchwork bringing texture and depth whilst layered prints and playful pattern clashes bring a sense of joyful movement to every piece. The styling appears to echo Wez Anderson, but the real influence at play here is the work of director Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), who Wez Andreson always looked to for inspiration.
My “albatross” vessels are woven from linen fibers and inside contain plastic that I collected over a month’s time: some of my own plastic and some found while walking to my studio. What appears elegant, organic and pure, like the body of the albatross, hides discarded detritus within. The woven vessel, like the body of the albatross, will most certainly decompose long before the plastic within. Before that happens, I hope we will have found a viable way to take greater action in dealing with our plastic waste. This series is a way to take some responsibility for my part of this problem and to bring this conversation to the forefront of my work.
"Can the touch of bee wings on one’s shoulders serve as a reminder of the fragility of life? In my work, the bee is a martyr for our ecosystem- a symbol of the influence we have upon non-human counterparts and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable." Luci Jockel
Luci Jockel is a jeweller based in Baltimore who is also Metal smithing & Jewellery Lecturer and Area Coordinator at Towson University. Here she has sources over 20000 bee wings from hives that died due to harsh winter/ climate change, and created incredible lace like pieces. In exchange for the bee remains she helped the bee keeper re-build his hives for the next year. Since then Luci and her dad have become bee keepers.
"The honey bee serves as a symbol of our interconnectivity, the influence we have upon non-human counterparts, and how we rely on these beings to keep our environment livable. It is not only about the bees, who have a complex impact on agriculture, but the pollinators, the insects, the animals that make up our ecosystem and our lost connection to them."
