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Each boat tells its tale with scraped paint, rusted edges and faded labels. Yet they sit companionably side by side, tethered loosely on the shimmering surface. The water reflects light like broken glass, while the boats remain stubbornly unmoved, weathered but useful.
It has become more than a study in colour and texture, though the palette is beautifully muted, ranging from mint to cream and faded blue. It’s a portrait of endurance. Function over form. Or maybe form through function.
What makes the image work is its stillness with undercurrents. A subtle composition with echoes of harmony and decline. Beauty found in the ordinary, again.
Why the title? Wabi-sabi is the quiet humility of this image; the sense that something doesn’t have to be new, perfect, or symmetrical to be beautiful. It just has to be real. And these boats, in their faded individuality, are very real.
Spotted in the CNR yard as The Canadian approached Vancouver. From what I have been able to learn this strange bit of kit has a jet engine that can pivot to direct a very forceful blast of very hot air to clean snow from critical trackage. Beauty Eh?
Exhibition Review - Hannah Levy and Michael Simpson:'Shall we sit, stand or kneel?' Marlborough Chelsea, New York till 3rd Dec 2016.
“Denied of tiresome fixations,
it bends my body into incongruous places."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "The emptiness in Simpson's paintings and Levy's chromed metal and silicone (recently escaped from their “design purgatory”) made me think of my local surgery's consultation rooms. And aptly enough both artists disassemble contexts in search of powers in their wonted seats, laying them bare through slick bits of archaeology. Being apparently free from bondage and semantic connections, I felt a strange familiarity with these paintings and sculptures, due perhaps to their new potentials but also (funnily enough) to their inviolable relations to the body. Brilliant!" - JayZee
See marlboroughchelsea.com/chelsea/exhibitions/shall-we-sit-s...
See also www.soaked.space/2016/12/exhibition-review-hannah-levy-an...
See also www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/12/exhibition-review-hannah-l...
Caption: Image above: Installation view Hannah Levy© Michael Simpson© Marlborough Chelsea, New York 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Chelsea, New York. Photo credit: Daniel Peréz
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custom insole that is cut and shaped to fit inside your shoe wrapped in cellophane. this helps keep the shoe clean of the clay and makes it easy to remove and insert.
in my left shoe i'm using firm clay. in the right shoe i'm using soft clay. the soft one seems to be molding to my feet faster.
Industrial technology that endures, railways are simple and complex at the same time. Simple in concept, complex in design and function. And it is a green technology for the 21st century and beyond.
In March we had a personal celebration of Canada's 150th birthday by travelling From Vancouver to Toronto and back on board VIA Rail's flagship streamliner "The Canadian".
Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect who commented once that architectural ornament was criminal. I am not one to wholly agree with him but there are times when some consideration needs to be given to how something performs against its intention rather than what it looks like. This bench for example. I actually quite like the design of it, but never have I sat on something less comfortable. Even laying down on it with a cushion on the cold steel arm-rests doesn't work.
A prehistoric giant turtle, note the geometrically elabroate interdigitation where the shell bones meet, - a perfect marriage of form and function.
one of several stores destroyed in the March, 2007 fire on 10th Avenue
(see also formandfunction)
Éliane's front facade, before the fire
Mystery fire destroys 3 businesses
More than 60 firefighters battle 'tremendous' blaze
"Fire has destroyed a sweet piece of Vancouver's heritage.
Lee's Fine Old Time Candies shop in the 4300-block West 10th Avenue was left a smouldering pile of charred rubble yesterday after fire tore through it and two neighbouring businesses in the same building.
It took at least 60 firefighters five hours to knock the flames down Tuesday night and early yesterday. Three firefighters suffered minor injuries, one a suspected broken ankle.
Residents in the building fled. Tenants in a nearby apartment block had to be evacuated because of water damage, while three homes across the lane were flooded by oily water running off the smoking wood-framed building.
Lee's, furniture store Form and Function and design shop Residence Interiors were completely destroyed.
All that remained of Form and Function yesterday was two wooden planters out front."
- by Matthew Ramsey, The Province, March 08, 2007