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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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This began with producing a quick and dirty 12-frame walk-cycle of a single stick-man—fully deconstructed into its most basic formulation of over-lapping lines. What I always enjoy about The Kick-About is taking one thing – a first draft, a first take, a first go – and then pushing it as far as it will go;
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Our last Kick-About together explored the simple proto-cinematic delights of the magic lantern. This week we’re sticking with fantastical sights—the ambulatory beach-bound sculptures of Theo Jansen. Enjoy this latest selection of ‘new works made in a short time’ and for all previous editions of The Kick-About go here. Gary Thorne “A remarkably interesting KA prompt,
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