Merry Christmas!

’Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,’ which is translated, ’God with us’ - Mattew 1:23

It has been a quiet and relaxed day.

Merry Christmas

Cara, Jeremy

and

Paul!

The Infinity of lists

[In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, ranks of soldiers, accounts of grotesque creatures, inventories of medicinal plants and hordes of treasure. There are practical lists that are finite, such as catalogues of books in a library; but there are others that are intended to suggest countless magnitudes and thereby arouse in us a dizzying sense of the infinite. This infinity of lists is no coincidence; a culture prefers enclosed, stable forms when it is sure of its own identity, whereas when faced with a jumbled accumulation of ill-defined phenomena, it starts making lists.] 

-from the cover page of 'The infinity of lists' by Umberto Eco

I Browsed through this book after I recieved the package yesterday as a gift from my dear friend. This book was one of my wish lists since I found out Umberto Eco's interview;

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SPIEGEL: But you also said that lists can establish order. So, do both order and anarchy apply? That would make the Internet, and the lists that the search engine Google creates, prefect for you.
Eco: Yes, in the case of Google, both things do converge. Google makes a list, but the minute I look at my Google-generated list, it has already changed. These lists can be dangerous -- not for old people like me, who have acquired their knowledge in another way, but for young people, for whom Google is a tragedy. Schools ought to teach the high art of how to be discriminating.
SPIEGEL: Are you saying that teachers should instruct students on the difference between good and bad? If so, how should they do that?
Eco: Education should return to the way it was in the workshops of the Renaissance. There, the masters may not necessarily have been able to explain to their students why a painting was good in theoretical terms, but they did so in more practical ways. Look, this is what your finger can look like, and this is what it has to look like. Look, this is a good mixing of colors. The same approach should be used in school when dealing with the Internet. The teacher should say: "Choose any old subject, whether it be German history or the life of ants. Search 25 different Web pages and, by comparing them, try to figure out which one has good information." If 10 pages describe the same thing, it can be a sign that the information printed there is correct. But it can also be a sign that some sites merely copied the others' mistakes.

The essays he wrote in this book are not about the interpretation or explanation of works of art but it's about a numeration, the lists about a system. It seems Eco indicates 'the aesthetics of lists' runs throughout the history of art and literature. I would like to find out what Eco wants to reflect through the works of art illustrating and literary anthology in this edition. Hopefully I'll finish to read the book and have a discussion about the content of the book soon. : )

dancing on my wrist

 

piling up the hand-swen fabrics for the layer of textures + colors

and

making an adjustable bracelet

the bracelet meets Lalette, the ring.

I'd like you to take this bracelet as a gift for your loved one.

Would you?  <3

The lovely textures and layers come together.

sometimes...

Coffee and tea are mild stimulants.

and

I prefer my coffee hot,

extra hot...

and

sometimes,

having coffee at 1am even makes me

sleepy.

Christmas is coming

The village is sparkling.

Our favorite winter items are displayed.

Churches are waiting for people.

The parade passes...

{... getting inspired for Christmas}

shape

" sensitivity I " by Sunyoung Kwon

Simplicity is a clean, direct expression of that essential quality of the thing which is in the nature of the thing itself. The innate or organic pattern of the form of anything is that form which is thus truly simple.
-Frank Lloyd Wright, F.L. Wright's Romance with Nature


The shape of branches have inspired me to create in many disciplines. One of them is printmaking. Through the use of printmaking, I applied the technique or method of using lines, and shape variations. Through the process of making a plate, inking, and printing, each print with several layers on a piece of paper creates a final piece of work. This acts as an influence of inspiration to me for my creativity.

"sensitivity I," for example, is a piece which includes natural symbols and experiments with the expression of layers. This work is a reflection of my sensitivity, which has been influenced by natural tree scenes of trees which have nothing but branches and fallen leaves. This work is one of two in my Sensitivity Series, all of which depict trees and fallen leaves. This piece shows the symbolic trees with its their intense red shades, falling leaves, and shadows. Behind the red tree in "sensivity," there is a distinct hidden white branch. Interwined with the red leaves are white leaves. With the black background, the consistencies of red and white stand out. Because of the curved shape of the leaves, the trees present more of an irregular shape. Several trees are places on the right side. One of them stretches its branches to the left side of the canvas. At the end of the branches, just a few leaves are hanging and seem to be falling. The white tree has branches on both the right and left side of the canvas to keep the work balanced and in proportion.

On the right side, two thin lines appear slightly showing the separation of the canvas into three sections. I have cut the end of the right side of the original piece of the plate before I have inked it. I would liked to express the partition of canvas in printmaking with two thin lines to dividing the canvas showing more tension in the mood of whole picture. If I had left the space longer between the canvas, it would not show the tension but would be more boring to see it. Because we have a kind of idea that printmaking has to be done with a plate fixed, regular rectangular size. I would like to slough off the general idea of the shape in printmaking. Even though this piece still remains as a rectangular shape, it is a first attempt of my trying for the exploration of shape.

In the metaphorical meaning of thiscreation, I have placed the transparent and overlapping of the layers of the leaves, where visual and spiritual signs constantly trespass into each other's territory. Through the use of the "mezzotint" technique, I created a soft, delicated mood which suggested a calm atmosphere look. Therefore, in this technique the curved and sharp lines show elegant and slender branches and leaves in this piece.


http://www.etsy.com/listing/63808134/sensitivity-i-original-printmaking-the