Tokyo Wondersite

This Wednesday (29/2/12) I am heading off to Tokyo for a month to participate in this workshop

http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/archive/2012/02/on-site-lab-program-6---creative-dialogue-and-commitment-to-the-environment.shtml

I will be blogging about it here which you can also link to through the page called Masters and Japan on this blog. 

Paper jewellery experiments

I have been experimenting with making jewellery from old magazine pages and staples. 
The full collection of images is here :  useless tat paper jewellery

I like this method of playing with materials as it allows me not to worry about how much it costs and also how much my work weighs!  I can pop any spare bits and complete disasters into the recycling and am only using materials I already own.

Totem pole

 

This totem pole by Tim Paul was my favourite piece at Yorkshire Sculpture Park this weekend.  It was made in 1982 from red cedar.

I also really loved this by Sol LeWitt

And I found a couple of bits of the writing about Eduardo Paolozzi interesting:

'Through casting interesting objects pressed into a wax sheet, he built up a library of impressions that were used in combination to create sculptures'

'He was always interested in the views of children, and never lost his fascination for the world around him.'

Necklace prototype