Cupsss.

From here!

Slightly creepy but reminds me of my collages, replacing a known form with other items, amalgamating into another object. The fact that this creates a working house hold item, shows that however random this may seem is it intently designed for its purpose. A bit Alice in Wonderland.

Green graffiti!

“I think that our distance from nature is already a cliché. City dwellers often have no relationship with animals or greenery. As a public artist I feel a sense of duty to draw attention to deficiencies in our everyday life. As a cultivator of eco-urban sensitivity, I usually go back to the sites to visit my “plants” or “moss”, sometimes to repair them a bit, but nothing more generally as they tend to get enough water from the air, condensation, and rain - especially in certain seasons. I also like to let them live by themselves. From the moment I put them on the street they start to have their own life. For me, the reaction of life on the street is also very important. I am curious about how people receive them, if they just leave them alone, or if they want to, take care of them or dismantle them. This is what makes my work similar to graffiti, although I am searching for a deeper social meaning and a dialogue with memories of the animals and gardens of my past in a small town in Central Europe. I believe that if everyone had a garden of their own to cultivate, we would have a much more balanced relation to our territories. Of course, a garden can be many things.”

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Hi.

I’m using this blog to store and collect sources of information and research, in accompaniment to a physical collection. Here, I hope to consider and critique the visual information I acquire and allow it to feed my own work.

I (and Vice) am a big fan of Ryan McGinley’s photographs. I love the atmosphere created by manipulating lenses and lighting and also appreciate that before using such tools there has to be a good photo there to start. I also like the way the images seem very much the product of luck, capturing the subject(s) at the best moment and the environment around them at it’s most complimentary. As someone who is not at all interested in fashion / star photography, his use of celebrity icons irks me a little. To me, it makes the photos seem contrived, capturing such a subject so used to controlling their image and press and serves perhaps only to me, as a distraction to the aesthetic worth of the photograph.

These pieces are exciting as reinvented commonplace objects. Understated works purely by their usage of such items, they are dismissible at a glance and maybe surprising at closer investigation. These items show beauty created by arguably ugly things, creativity under the most strict constraints, works of art that enable us to see and appreciate their ‘basic’ forms and how art can enrich the mundane.

In terms of product design Atypyk are great at creating desirable products out of basic necessities. Surprising, silly but remaining functional these items refresh the images of the things we simply need and allow us to indulge in ‘cheap’ luxury.