Showing posts with label grids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grids. Show all posts

08 September 2017

Underfoot

Inspiration from the pavement - some of it might fuel my "gridded" journal quilts; most of it is a bit of a patchwork. Layers of history, even.










Some bits of pavement have a story - for instance, the curb stones indicate that there was once a cobbled area of pavement, perhaps a driveway or rather carriageway (as in the photo above) -
Other curbstones have mason's marks - a chiseled initial, or something more mysterious.

16 January 2016

Found grids

Gouged into wood as a by-product of carpentry

Barred windows in a former gaol

21 December 2014

Background to grids

Aspects of past work that feed into the "grids" idea
Irregular grids of city maps
and by extension, maps of museums with their structure of rooms
Are portolan charts grids?

Gridded pseudo-maps, reminiscent of kuba cloth patterns

gridded book pages

gridded quilting
Images found on the internet that feed into my gridded, structural thinking -
Image
Karen Goetzinger (via)
Gridded facade of the Bodleian Library (via)
A grid by Gego (via)
source lost, but isn't it a wonderful structure?

a multiplicity of shapes within the gridded roof of the Great Court at the British Museum

Gridded drawings by Clare Smith - see more here

Deleuze conceives of the grid as territorialised "State Space", inside which movement becomes fixed and tribal. Hmm ... how to break that fixity, disorganise things a bit?