IS IT FOOD OR IS IT ART?
The Eat team dons its collective artists smocks and infiltrates that strange land where food and art collide. First off, we explore the role and significance of food in art history---japanese fake food, In Cozad’s Little Tokyo section, a Japanese restaurant uses the traditional hand-crafted fake food to display its wares. In Cozad’s Little Tokyo section, a Japanese restaurant uses the traditional hand-crafted fake food to display its wares. --
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Ruby Chishti: Comfortable with cloth--Whitworth Art Gallery recently acquired two crows by Ruby Chishti for its collection of textile art--My birth will take place a thousand times no matter how you celebrate it, cast fabric, stitched and stuffed with straw, yarn, 2001, 15" x 16" x 18", --
The garments are made from plastic, tin cans, rubber, wire and car parts--Street wire art, unique to South Africa and largely unavailable beyond our borders, is a living testimony to the industriousness and creative spirit of our people. --
Dwellings No. 8, Settlement existing oak trees, chicken wire, hemp fibers, wood--I've been using chicken wire and metal lath, oftentimes the substances of barriers themselves--Pantalons y filferro (Pants and Wire) --Wire Book--another wire book--plates made from telephone wire--Telephone wire basket with HIV theme by Anna Maria Diamini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa--"YRU" (Wire You) 4 1/2 x 5 1/2" h plastic -coated telephone wires, solid colors over variegated --Zulu tribes people in Natal, South Africa, weave traditional baskets from untraditional material -- recycled PVC-coated telephone wire. While quality is uniformly high, each basket is a unique piece of art varying in size, shape and color. --
tink tank, . ...She witnessed folk art sculptures of chickens and dogs being made from recycled paper and plastic bags, functioning radios made from cans and wire, bowls being crafted from telephone wire, and floor mats woven from straw and candy wrappers.
Material Matters: Appliqués by the Weya Women of Zimbabwe and Needlework by South African Collectives --Paintings of the Weya Women--Zimbabwe Artists Project (ZAP) celebrates the artistry and accomplishments of women from rural Weya in eastern Zimbabwe. Through education, sale of their art in the U.S., and special projects, ZAP helps women become economically self-sufficient. Women of Weya are subsistence farmers, mothers, and householders as well as artists--The Seattle International District Rotary Club (SIRC) is working with the Elliott Bay Rotary Club, also of Seattle, to support four rural villages in the Weya Communal Land in eastern Zimbabwe with water improvements--The Visual Arts of Zimbabwe--THE VOICE OF AFRICAN WOMEN--African Weya Tin Cups --WEYA ART, ZIMBABWE
helping craftswomen.....In many cultures certain crafts are considered the province of women. Very young girls learn by mimicking their mothers' craft-making techniques; often, they are proficient before they are ten years old.
Snow globes - Glue a small object to the inside of the lid - a plastic figurine, flower, etc. Add glitter, beads, or foil confetti, etc. Fill the jar with equal parts water and corn syrup, add food coloring if desired. Seal the lid onto the jar using a watertight sealant - the kind used for aquariums, or the stuff found in the plumbing section of your hardware store. Put a bead of sealant on the threads of the jar and on the inside threads of the lid. Close it up, leave overnight to dry. Kids love this!
Capture the magical essence of the Coronado Theatre in this limited edition, handcrafted snow globe. Eight inches in height, each numbered globe plays the tune "The Entertainer" as golden glitter swirls around the main auditorium and the Theatre façade.
So now all you Beer Drinking Housewives can think about remodeling your kitchen using wobo bottles! But, unfortunately.......Less predictable is the Heineken beer bottle, which was designed in 1960 to be recycled as a building block. The doomsday merchants in the Heineken marketing department predicted the downfall of the entire company if the shape of the bottle was changed.In the end, only one house -- on the grounds of Alfred Heineken's home near Amsterdam -- was ever built this way. Today, 100,000 of the WOBO (World Bottle) bottles still sit in a warehouse in Rotterdam.
beer can house, Judy Lockwood's house was built in the 1970s in Taos, New Mexico, in collaboration with renowned architect Michael Reynolds. Reynolds designs energy-efficient homes from recycled materials, supporting the theory in early solar power design that abundant solar mass could induce a passive solar home. To this end, the building was constructed with unusual energy-receptive materials: concrete and aluminum cans. The cans were laid like bricks and cement was poured between them. --
In 1968, John Milkovisch was just another retired employee of Southern Pacific railroad. He lived in an undistinguished house in an undistinguished suburban neighborhood of Houston. Then John got antsy. He began decorating his patio with pieces of brass, marbles, rocks and buttons. Then he tore up the lawn and replaced it with similar glittery debris. The house itself was next. John took beer cans and flattened them into aluminum siding....Beer cans quickly became John's exclusive medium -- a convenient one, since John drank a lot of beer.
This is CCXXII Malone, commonly known as the beer can house. It grew, strangely enough, out of a desire to make curtains. Its creator, who died in 1988, began cutting the ends off cans with a hook knife and hanging strings of the tops and bottoms from the eaves in the early 1970s. Milkovisch initially decorated his eaves with links of plastic loops that connect six-packs, a process he abandoned when manufacturers switched to biodegradable materials and the loops began degenerating quickly. For a while he saved the leftover can sides, after splitting and flattening the cylinders and tying them into bundles. In the mid 70s the availability of aluminum tacks inspired him to assemble his stash of sides in large sheets and fasten them to the house. He later used beer cans to repair hurricane damage to the fence
Beer Can House (Houston, TX)---Beer Can House - John Milkovisch (1912-1988) ....A prime example of Houston's rather off-kilter approach to "folk art", the Beer Can House (222 Malone) is the culmination of 18 years of hard work, dedication, and drinking
...Wing House....The Millsteins own a sports and recreation store in Lawrence, Kansas. There, David Millstein, a former architecture student and part-time construction worker, designed an energy-efficient house to be built from recycled materials such as old cans and tires held together with earth and cement. Total construction time of the house was two years.
THE TIRE HOUSE BOOK Building Houses From Old Tires By Ed Paschich and Paula Hendricks
When Cate and Wayne met in New Mexico, they decided to move to a cooler climate and bought a piece of land in Helena, Montana. Using the trial-and-error method, they built everything themselves while focusing on economics and environmentally friendly construction. The basic structure of their house is made from 250 used car tires that have been packed with earth and sealed with concrete. Wayne and Cate used old wood for the roof trusses, salvaged glass for the window panes, and incorporated about 13,000 empty soda and beer cans throughout.
Pawley, Martin: "WOBO: a new kind of message in a bottle", chapter in Pawley's book: Garbage Housing, Architectural Press, UK, 1975, ISBN 0 85139 240 7. On the design of the Heineken beer bottle with which one could build houses.
Earthships ARE a new approach to sustainable living. Imagine building a house out of discarded tires and aluminum cans. Imagine using environmentally friendly materials and techniques to create a truly self-sufficient home.
Twenty-five years ago Michael Reynolds, of Solar Survival Architecture in Taos, started building houses made of garbage. He is now world famous for his Earthshipsä —tire houses bermed into the earth and designed to function off the utility grids. He was, and is, a true revolutionary and the outward appearance of his houses reflect that. To make a difference long-term, to move toward true sustainability, these ideas and processes must, however, be adopted by the mainstream.
The pounded tire is the basic building block of the Earthship. Tires are used because tires are generally a one use item and then discarded.
Earthships are a new approach to sustainable design & living. Earthships are built out of discarded tires and aluminum cans. Environmentally friendly materials and techniques are used to create a truly self-sufficient home. When finished, Earthships interface with and harness nature to create a dwelling that lives with the land, not on top of it. Earthships were pioneered when an architect named Michael Reynolds challenged the traditional style of home building and living. The resulting creation, the earthship, is an new approach to providing for anybody's basic needs. The Earthship concept continues to be refined and developed by the company he created, Solar Survival Architecture. New ideas and techniques are being developed faster
earthship (URTH.ship; TH as in thin) n. An environmentally self-sufficient house powered by renewable energy sources and partially made from used tires and recyclable materials. Also: Earthship. —adj.
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Earthships are already a growing movement in the United States where it is possible to rent them as holiday homes to encourage more people to build them. Estates of hundreds of self-build earthships have been built in New Mexico with names like Dunlopin and Firestone Avenue. —Paul Brown, "The new Skid Row — homes built from tyres," The Guardian, July 20, 2002
'So on one hand I really believe in empty spaces, but on the other hand, because I'm still making some art, I'm still making junk for people to put in their spaces that I believe should be empty: i.e., I'm helping people waste their space, when what I really want to do is help them empty their space' (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol)
The legs of my kitchen sink cabinet broke and, to substitute them, I cut four plastic water bottles to the height of the broken legs, filled them with cement, and, when the cement dried, substituted them with the broken originals. Now I've learned that there's abottle called EMIUM that's reusable in that these bottles can be slotted together like Lego bricks and used in construction.
Mirta Mabel Fasci (Argentina), for her invention of a new design for plastic bottles with multiple uses.
THE PACKAGING SOLUTION FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM...EMIUM containers stay out of the garbage and the streets because they can be re-used to build a wide variety of recreational or functional structures......USES AND APPLICATIONS
I don't know why other water companies don't use EMINUM bottles just like I don't understand why more companies that sell foods in jars don't use those jars that can be reused as water glasses.
Glass recycling is a well-established industry. Recycling has always been a part of glass making. Even the first glass plant in colonial America reintroduced scrap glass into their furnaces to make new products. Today 54 plants in 24 states, employ over 20,000 skilled workers and contribute several billion dollars to our national economy.
Impressed glass, recycled jars, and light fixtures in many exquisite shapes hold a candle or fresh flowers Recycled Candles
WHILST GUTTING AND REBUILDING THEIR HOUSE 22 years ago, the Maynards found a group of objects concealed in and behind one of the bedroom walls. These comprised a velvet waistcoat, a stomacher and some paper patterns and also a cat skeleton.
What is a deliberately concealed garment? Despite the fact that this term may conjure images of underwear, it is used to describe instances where items of clothing have been deliberately hidden or buried in a building. The evidence for this practice dates back to the Middle Ages. (somewhat like the treasure box in AMELIE)--SMART & TECHNO-TEXTILES ---PROJECT--
A traditonal japanese craft of tearing, coloring and gluing paper to make a picture.
Hari-e has been practiced for hundreds of years in Japan but is gaining popularity all over the world. The process is very simple but beautiful. The torn edges of the paper make for soft but defined edges--Torn Paper Art--torn paper art--torn paper art--torn paper art--torn paper art--torn paper art--torn paper art--torn paper art---still torn---still torn---Serendipity Squares are ‘all the rage’ in the scrapbook world these days--
In the Japanese language, Chigirie literally means to tear paper to create a collage or paper tearing picture. This technique consists of tearing and pasting down dyed handmade paper to create a composition which lends a two-dimensional appeal, thereby bringing life to the art.
Shaker Broom In the Shakers’ pursuit of material cleanliness to mirror their vision of spiritual purity, no single item was so valued, so symbolic, or so widely known as the Shaker flat broom. Created in 1798 by Brother Theodore Bates of Watervliet, NY, the flat broom was vastly more efficient than the round broom and swiftly became popular among the Shakers ---brooms for witches---Sofia Gonzales has sold Mexican brooms in front of her home in East Los Angeles for almost twenty years.---brooms in Sabinas--Brooms, 1997---Fantasia-1940 Cel of broom army on march------hanging brooms---more brooms maybe in china---colorful brooms---photogenic brooms--little brooms--found images & brooms--Broom making----broom hilda--a lonely broom---broom from Amsterdam--Dancing Broom Spell---Tango with the Broom ---
WTC A/Dress (World Trade Center) photos from sequence of WTC bombing, paint, and flowers on recycled wedding dress with black tulle overlay--GOING BRIDAL's humble collection of misguided bridal advertising, see expecially 100% post-consumer recycled waste basket liner and Kleenex material. Is biodegradeable under most conditions--Artist Daphne Ruff's client in her wedding gown made of recycled paper that she had specially ordered and used for the ceremony--toilet paper dress bridal party game--Do I hear wedding bells? Virginia M.F. Beck of Albright College must have been thinking that when she created this paper wedding gown.
Daphne Ruff is an artist who turns junk into fashion and uses recycled materials found in junkyards to create wardrobes, costumes and accessories that are unique in their genre--robin masi's recycled clothes--Salon of Refuse, Angela White's cast-off creations--Angela White (Akron, OH), a graduating sculpture student at the University of Akron, presents Body Buildings. White's models will wear her fanciful, sculptural costumes inspired by architects' designs as they mingle with visitors. After the opening, White's dresses will be on view along with design sketches, blueprints and documentation. --Recycled Clothes: Glad Rags from Trash Bags--Recycled Fashion – Don’t Discard Your Potential Couture Creation --Recycled clothes---Page 3 / Recycled Dress--One of the projects of the San Fransisco Environment Recycling Program --Recycled Fashion Show 1997--Clothing That's Recycled and High Fashion --A Recycled Fashion Show----recycled--This beautiful piece was further decorated with hundreds of flowers made from recycled materials --Chef-d'oeuvres from the Rubbish Heap...like this crumpled newspaper dress--
The skirt is made of recycled JUNIOR MINTS™ boxes, which read "Creamy mints in pure chocolate." --Making of Viny-pla Show--Recycled Doyle Packs Bag--
Real Women in Real Homes: Andrea DeHart, Getcrafty gets down with an urban cowgirl---Machine embroidered fabric appliqué---NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown.com--In recent exhibitions, I have been exploring an autoethnographic approach: investigating my own family history of quiltmaking, the social meanings embedded in that history. --19th-Century Sewing Machine Trade Cards--Embroidered Post Cards & Trade Cards
KC Willis' work begins with unprimed canvas, which she launders and stains with coffee. She then burns the frayed edges of the canvas and layers it with glued or stitched pillow ticking, vintage calico and old velvet brocades, to create a richly patterned and textured surface. Finally, she adds the photo transfer images of the cowgirl characters who figure prominently in her compositions. While these images, culled from old photographs and postcards that Willis finds in flea markets and antique shops, are of actual women of the Old West, the artist takes the poetic liberty of inventing quotes for them, which she hand letters and adds to the pieces. Thus, she refers to her works as "fiber fiction," a term that she is currently trademarking via INDIGo BLUR
literate handbags via riley dog--"Women's wear took a radical turn," during the 1920s according to Lynell Schwartz the author of Vintage Purses At Their Best. "In this new lifestyle, ladies wanted a sturdy purse that was capable of holding their necessities. Yet their wish was also for a delicate bag that could be worn over the wrist or arm without disrupting the flow of their hectic schedules."-- classsic radio gallery via sugar 'n spicy--The Los Gatos Housewives are the second or third wives--
While in Corsica, I saw Emmanuelle Beart at the grocery store. She looked so different. Ordinary. I felt relieved. You know, vanity. Because I thought, if anyone has ever looked at me while shopping and thought Oh what an ordinary woman, well it just means that the Beart and I have something in common.
When This You See...is a series of thirty-one artworks in the medium of embroidery, made between 1996 and 1999, by the American artist, Elaine Reichek. All of the images are reproduced in full color--Elaine Reichek, an interview--Elaine ReichekWhitewashed, 1992-3 Wool, photo--from Déjà Vu: Reworking the Past--Elaine Reichek + Joelle Hann--, Reichek briefly installed her samplers among the works in the Gardner's permanent collection. madam i'm adam-- Sampler (A blurred region), 2001, embroidery on linen, 22 x 28 in. -- Museum of Modern Art presents When This You See... --
art for the home....like Living Room Art and Sofa Paintings.....
What's hanging over your sofa? she asked
Pepon Osorio's visual language, explosive and elegant, asserts its place in a polemical art world challenging traditional art canons with richly textured and layered monumental assemblages that go far beyond accepted notions of beauty and aesthetics. Diffusing the boundaries between the traditional and the contemporary, Osorio emphasizes a freedom in process and content with an exacting use of collected rescued materials. His provocative large-scale, multi-media installations incorporate a multiplicity of objects such as: photography, silk-screen, video, and sound to recreate fantasy-like quotidian environments from barber shops, home interiors and taxis, that advance critical discussions.
“I think all Jewish homemakers are creative in one way or another, often in many ways,” Vicki explains. “We live creatively. If you live the life of a good Jew, it ensures that you will be a good person for everyone and everything. I celebrate the Holy Days; I love them all. But Jewish homemakers also celebrate life in the way they teach their children and in the way they volunteer in the community. Everyone’s creativity takes a different form. In my case, I make rugs, and I used to do ceramics. I fund-raise for our yeshivos, and I also teach art.
VIcKI STONE....She was featured in a magazine article in THE JEWISH HOMEMAKER in 1999.--THE JEWISH HOMEMAKER --
"Locke"--Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970)--Domenico Gnoli (Roma, 1933 - New York, 1969)--On of the most unjustly neglected illustrators of this century, an imaginative, intense and technically gifted artist, Gnoli is mainly represented in Libraries by his magnum opus, Orestes or The Art of Smiling --
Since 2000 Textile designer and artist Zane Berzina has been teaching Textile Practice on interdisciplinary study projects at the Institute for Experimental Fashion and Textile Design, Design Faculty, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany.
Thanks to my friend Ellen of Someone Keeps Moving My Chair for telling me about Liza Lou and sending me this link: Her Own Backyard, ART: With a little help from the community, Liza Lou transforms over a million beads into a life-sized yard - and a beautiful work of art.
catalogue...Liza Lou Smart Art Press, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1997
A bead on the world --Liza Lou :The Back Yard--Liza Lou'Kitchen' 1991 -95 Courtesy of Deitch Projects--Liza Lou Cup of coffee--Beading Books-- hand thoughts-- Lou's Kitchen revels in the activity of its inhabitants, including homely features such as the dishes soaking in the sink and the dinner cooking on the oven, each densely and lovingly rendered bead by bead. The artist's use of beading in part evokes cultural traditions such as those of the Native Americans, and also the use of beads by hobbyists to embellish household objects. The exquisite effect of the dazzling colours, and the painstaking attention to minute details, are a clear challenge to notions of what traditionally constitutes fine art or craft. --"I am an artist and I am going to bead the world," says Liza Lou decidedly. -- beaded beer can-- Star-Spangled Presidents: Portraits by Liza Lou--Liza Lou takes mundane objects and scenes of suburban domestic bliss and transforms them into dazzling reflections on the American ideal. The Kitchen-a 168 square foot room size installation in which every surface is covered with glittering glass beads-took five years to complete; The Backyard, with over 250,000 hand-beaded blades of grass took two. In between, Liza beaded the American Presidents, an installation containing 42 beaded portraits of our country's leaders. -- Born 1969, New York, USA.--
Liza Lou burst upon the contemporary art scene with a 1996 show at New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art featuring her environmental sculpture "Kitchen," an extravagant monument to women’s simple, everyday labor. Lou’s kitchen was transformed by millionf brightly colored, shiny glass beads covering every surface.
"For me, my work is a prayer, and so the doing of the work is its own dignity." -Liza Lou, Artist
Transforming familiar elements of everyday life into ecstatic real estate, Liza Lou's sparkling Back Yard and Kitchen are monuments to domesticity, suburbia, and the work accomplished in that arena called home. Lou's meticulous beaded environments embody a simple and dignified work ethic: finish the job you start, no matter how hard or overwhelming seems the task. The Kitchen took five years to complete;the Back Yard two. Kitchen and its painstaking creation parallels the untold lives of those women who have toiled in the home for little or no recognition. Its companion Back Yard is in Lou's words, the "permanently perfect" lawn we view through the kitchen window while washing the dishes. Lou's Back Yard and Kitchen testify to the power of work to fulfill artistic vision.
Liza Lou understands that everyday life is paradoxically simple and complex. It takes labor to enjoy leisure-a back yard picnic requires work in the kitchen. By stopping time in a moment of simultaneous domestic perfection and imperfection—notice the shining dustballs in the Kitchen and the spilled beer in the Back Yard—Liza Lou, in a glittering tsunami of empathy and solidarity, suggests how the domestic space embodies our humanity: we are perfect and imperfect. Lou's monumental and overwhelming act of love, dedication, artistry and even, in her word, "prayer," transfigures daily living. Back Yard and Kitchen show us what Liza Lou already knew—that the ordinary is, indeed, extraordinary.
An example of this artist's work. -- In the Kitchen with Liza Lou-- more liza lou-- Liza Lou and her Trailer---Liza Lou is an artist who self-consciously examines and employs notions of seduction to examine American history, daily life, and the hidden values and terrors lurking beneath the glittering surfaces of the products we consume--Liza Lou's Beaded World --Creating Art, One Bead At A Time--Liza Lou, Trailer (detail), 1999–2000--Wimm Delvoye, Ghada Amer 그리고 Liza Lou--
Liza Lou burst upon the contemporary art scene with a 1996 show at New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art featuring her environmental sculpture "Kitchen," an extravagant monument to women’s simple, everyday labor. Lou’s kitchen was transformed by millionf brightly colored, shiny glass beads covering every surface.
