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This seasonal offering—produced for The Kick-About No.117—was directly inspired by my recent stay in an old French house, which often begins with the task of hoovering up cobwebs and their occupants, along with the occasional very large centipede. Afterwards, I sometimes think about the insides of the hoover—and all that might reside in there—then I
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Our previous Kick-About together was inspired by the mid-century modern textile designs of Lucienne Day, and a number of her patterns feature graphical, cobweb-like forms. With Halloween fast-approaching—and bringing with it all the usual trappings—this latest edition of The Kick-About find itself fascinated by spiders’ silk and the ingenuity of their webs. For all previous
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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.
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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. Lewis Punton “I
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What this really needs is a spectral ‘lady in white’ figure to complete the gothic scene… “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”
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I took inspiration from Rachel Whiteread and her casts made from the interior spaces of objects and environments. Similarly, I was interested in ‘visibilising’ otherwise invisible spaces in the form of objects—my response to the ‘Negative Space’ prompt for The Kick-About No.115. These three sculptural forms were created by first lining three cardboard toilet rolls
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The last edition of The Kick-About took us to the preferred habitat of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests—empty horizons of sea and sky: all the better for directing our focus on Jansen’s remarkable ambulatory creations. This week, we’re preoccupied by absences too: how negative space likewise sharpens our attention, pushing us to consider what is present, even
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Another watery French building floating in the waters at Brantôme.
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Same rainy, overcast day in Brantôme, France; there’s a low weir spanning the river and this photograph was taken of the ‘split screen’ effect of the weir and the reflections of the trees in the larger body of water below it.
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I’ve been in France for a few weeks, eeking out the summer for as long as possible – even though on the day this photograph was taken in Brantôme, it was overcast and raining. We were walking by the river and the reflection of this perfect shuttered house was too evocative to pass up. This
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