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I have a cardboard box in my wardrobe full of socks. The socks often escape their confines and proliferate like tribbles. Inspired by the digital glitches and ‘missing pixels’ that feature in Melissa Cody’s wonderful textiles—muse for The Kick-About No.119—I decided to scan my socks, while moving them fractionally in different directions; by moving them…
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Our last Kick-About together was inspired by the Perseid meteor shower—a dazzling display of celestial lights streaking across the sky. Asteroids, meanwhile, was an iconic arcade game released in 1979, capturing imaginations with its simple, vector-based graphics, and the aesthetic of computer games inspires this week’s creative muse, textile artist Melissa Cody. Enjoy this latest…
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These long-exposure images—produced for The Kick-About No.118—were originally produced ‘in-camera’—with a table-top covered in black dustbin sacks and a strip of mains-powered LED-lights. The blurs and distortions were produced by photographing through some thick glass tumblers. The curvature of the planet surface was then produced digitally—just by grabbing the horizon line and giving it a…
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Our previous Kick-About had a touch of spookiness about it; this week, it’s less spook more sparkle, as we cast our eyes skywards to catch a falling star or two… Enjoy this latest collection of new works made in a short time, and be sure to browse all previous editions of this fortnightly creative challenge…
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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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