my new shoes?

This is what was left of yesterday's experiment

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yes, i think they could look quite nice on me ;)

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FEET

I've been wanting to do this for so long..........

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What I really want now is to try a full body, the problem is to find a willing 'model'

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The Vaseline is important to be able to remove it more easily at the end and the hair dryer was because I was impatient for the paper-maché to dry

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Joan Jonas

I really wanted to make a post about Joan Jonas as she is one of my favorite living artists. Usually I'm not particularly sensitive to video art and I've rarely been exposed to any performance art but seeing performances and installations by Joan Jonas in Geneva two years ago really changed my mind as her work is so incredible poetic. My favorite piece by far was 'Mirage' which takes up many themes from her previous pieces but in a much more abstract sort of way. Her performance is beautiful because her technical inexperience in choreography allows her to convey so much emotion without being held back by anything.

Joan Jonas started making art at a time where there were very few women artists and decided to start experimenting with a media which very little people knew and where women could be the pioneers. Many of her pieces are extremely androgynous, almost making a statement by the absence of any male orfemale characteristics and in that way leaving the focus on the topics she is exploring.

Joan Jonas speaks about 'Mirage' -

All pictures from "Joan Jonas TIMELINES: TRANSPARENCIES IN A DARK ROOM" catalogue by Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève

sunny days from a darkened room

I took these when i was inside studying and the sun reflected through the window made these strange and cool shapes on the walls which moved around the room

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Pierre Frey

I love looking through massive catalogues of these, they are all so beautiful

F2713

lavezzi

walko

palazzo F2747

rayure ocean

vavin

and this one which i don't know the name of but i got a huge piece of it left over from someone's sofa which i used to make lots of cushions

when i have my own house there will be a whole room upholstered in Pierre Frey fabric ;)

Camera roll!

Man who i saw on the train, i pretended to be doing something with my phone while i took his picture

My beautiful friend Emma

And Emily with our fantastic class of '10 rabbit! fuzzy picture but i had to have it

Sky view from a place which i discovered where you can lay back in really long grass. It feels like you're an insect and you see everything from a nice angle. until insects start crawling on you and you get up!