Red's Kingdom

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Our previous Kick-About was a rumination on the theme of negative space—an aesthetic consideration no less vital to the work of this week’s muse: the textile designs of Lucienne Day. Enjoy this latest showcase of new works made in a short time, and click here for all previous editions of The Kick-About.

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Lewis Punton

“I found Day’s designs inherently full of character, in some places even reminiscent of the character design littered throughout the 2020 Pixar flick, Soul—possibly down to the mixture of line work and contrasting colour choices. With that in mind, I took to prising a family of characters from Day’s designs, resulting in quite the fun little cohort…“

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lewismakesthings.wordpress.com

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Phil Cooper

“The prompt this week gave me an opportunity to have another look at Lucienne Day’s work – work that I thought I was very familiar with – and really have a proper look at it, something I haven’t done for a long time. I can’t think of any other designer whose work shouts ‘mid-century modern’ or ‘vintage’ more than Lucienne Day. It’s so strong, so nostalgic, and I still see it everywhere; it’s extraordinary how influential it’s been. It’s still the go-to for cushions and curtains if you want to give your home a retro look. So, I’ve tried to make some images that have a similar 1950s feel. I wanted them to look like they could be black-and-white illustrations in an old exhibition catalogue you might find in a dusty box in a second-hand bookshop…”

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James Randall

“Lucienne Day’s textile designs are extremely appealing to me—particularly the colour palettes and energetic linework. Initially I was thinking of representing some bushes along the waterfront where honeyeaters have taken up residence—they have a beautiful call, but then I started thinking about mark making and lifework and looking at marks different people have left on building site hoardings. How they are like message boards – Instagram or cave paintings. So I took to recreating these marks from photos. Then I created a background in a Lucienne colour scheme covered in fine lines – homage to fabric. Then added a couple of additional layers of stuff to try and get the marks to work as a whole composition.”

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Phil Gomm

“I love Lucienne Day’s designs: seed heads, molecules, plankton, atom-age flying saucers… I don’t care what they are; they just cheer me up. There’s always an implied movement to Day’s patterns; I sometimes get this sense of busy, aerial traffic, like an establishing shot from The Jetsons – or those time-lapse sequences of seeds sprouting very speedily. With all of that playing out in my mind’s eye, I went about making a fun little animation.”

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philgomm.com

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Kerfe Roig

“I thought the black marks on Day’s textiles looked very much like handwriting or symbolic messages of some sort.  So I started with some geometric postcard collages, first rectangles and lines, and then did circles that morphed into faces.  For the text, I consulted the collage box Oracle, who is never at a loss for words.”

01
Chinese dragons are completely devilish
and now come with whimsical pagodas–
an ideal synthesis of the ancient past
and the deconstructed before
Some sleep two to a room
far away from the center of the end–
never having arrived from here or there
at all

02
In spring and summer you can often see
the momentary murmur of a
fiercely independent
abstract deluge
you have to listen
If you’re ready
before the noise vanishes
something always happens

03
You may have been told that the return of almost everything
was not going to happen–
but
this isn’t the first time
the continuous exchange
between people and things
was within existing possiblity
Identities are created by the top secret stuff

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kblog.blog / methodtwomadness.wordpress.com

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It’s getting to be that time of year again: pumpkins popping up all over the place, packets of fang-shaped jelly sweets on supermarket shelves… and with all of that in mind, a suitably seasonal prompt!

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