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Let them talk to each other

29 Thursday Sep 2016

Posted by Deidhre Wauchop in Food for thought, NEO

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a finger in too many pies, addicted to new, colour, Etsy TooManyPies, influence, instagram, serendipity, visual dialogue

I’ve started an Instagram account (yes, I know, +pie!).

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why INSTAGRAM…

I’m still struggling a bit with how to use Instagram and why to use it. Instagram is a branding and marketing tool but I don’t really want to use it as that at the moment. I like my progress so far regarding Etsy branding—that is, I have a logo of sorts and my Too Many Pies shop is consistently all over the shop when it comes to colour, style, materials and listings. Most reflective of ‘a finger in too many pies’. Tick.

And I don’t want to drive traffic to my shop quite yet. Most of my work is experimental. One-offs aren’t sustainable in a commercial sense. I don’t want to be beholden to ‘make’ for the ‘customer’. (Great gratitude to the people who have bought from my shop—I’m so thankful you have found my work just the same)

instagram is good for…

Instagram is good for capturing on-the-run images that support my process. In this space my little pies can ‘talk to each other’.

They can talk colour ‘whoa! same, same’ or ‘wow! you’re very different…’ or ‘do you really think you have to be purple?’

They can talk texture and form ‘you’re a five-petalled flower too!’ or ‘what does it feel like to be a fabric design?’ or ‘let’s talk mathematically’

They can talk together about the world and imagination and struggle and influence and serendipity.

Unlike Pinterest, Instagram facilitates that dialogue without all the visual noise. And that suits my purpose at the moment!

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[1st] Food for thought

10 Friday Oct 2014

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addicted to new, animations, artist practice, blogging101, chevrons, colour addiction, colourlovers, Hidden Springs for artists, missoni, Prism art studio, rico, Sims 3, stripes, vimeo, yarn fix

kikyoblue  kikyowarm  kikyored  kikyoviolet  kikyodark

Here’s a brief round-up of stimulus this week—who and what has given me more stimulus, more inspiration, more pies (!) to add to the legion:


CHEVRONS AND COLOURLOVERS (feeding stripe addiction, feeding colour addiction)

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Stripes and chevrons are everywhere at the moment. Even Missoni is pandering to the fad through their own knock-offs in Target. I have a nice pattern for a knitted chevron cushion using Rowan yarn, so have been testing colour ways in COLOURlovers.


YARN FIX (feeding knit addiction, feeding colour addiction)

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In the last couple of weeks I’ve been experimenting with chunky and super chunky knits. I’m motivated to design a big chunky cowl and this Rico yarn is supposed to be super light, perfect for a big cowl. Expensive, though, so I’m saving up.


BEAUTY IN VIDEO (feeding stripe addiction, feeding earth texture addiction, feeding colour addiction)

These clips caught my eye in my weekly peruse of Vimeo. I’m still hankering to do some animation, but again it’s something you have to get immersed in so when that happens it will be only one finger in one pie for a while.

 

 

 


SIMS 3 (feeding SIMS world dominance addiction)

In Sims 3 posts in my blog artist practice, I talk about playing with Sims that are tailor-made to be artists. I’ve spent some time recently trying to edit various worlds to suit an artist community. It’s harder than I thought and very time-consuming.

This week I downloaded the Prism art studio which has inspired a new attempt to create a bespoke Hidden Springs for artists. A long-term project for sure.

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Artist residences

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Artist precinct

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Painting studio

That’s the round-up for this week!

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Not enough time in the day for ideas

03 Friday Oct 2014

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addicted to new, blogging 101, bonsai azalea, ideas, quotes about ideas, Satsuki Azalea, time and ideas, too many pies

“Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.” ― S.J. Watson


“Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.” ― Rolf Smith


“Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.”― Mark Van Doren


This morning I managed to dream up outlines for 3 novels, a pattern for a knitted tea towel and a recipe for a ‘roasted and smashed potato salad’. Then my brain pushed forward an old sticky note. I had forgotten to embark on my bonsai for dummies course where I will bonsai my first azalea. I have the azalea and the bonsai pot. I must attend to that.

Just a few more pies.


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Image “Satsuki Azalea (Rhododendron indicum) ‘Homare'” by cliff1066™, CC-BY-2.0

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My conundrum

18 Thursday Sep 2014

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addicted to new, art of the pie, art practice, blogging 101, conundrum, who I am, why I'm here

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My life’s conundrum put’s pressure on me to find, view, appreciate and manipulate imagery.

The imagery is already in my dna—that’s why I am drawn to it. Geometric images, exotically coloured images, rhythmic images, textures, clouds, water, drapery, spheres, contraptions.

Great images settle in my mind and in my body and compel me to make something from the image—make something with my hands or with words. Not something that mimics the image, but something that has a conversation with the image.

The conundrum is why [?].

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I'm an explorer - of the visual world and the intersections between visual arts, dance and technology. 'Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.' Rene Magritte

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