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Showing posts with label neki desu. Show all posts

Friday, March 22, 2024

those pretty ties


i finally found my long  lost kumihimo cord \(^▽^)/
here's a vid to celebrate.
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Thursday, March 21, 2024

C.3P.O


started the last of the tryptic which actually is the second as it goes in the middle.the tryptic idea came while weaving, as all the good ideas happen.and there's another one brewing. hoping i don't run out of warp.



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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

my own private hanami 🌸🌸




plain luck that there's a good blooming tree in the hood which brings incredible doses of joy.i follow it daily development and record it on photos.

    





i like the washed out look for sakura, but still havent come up with the right look. for now this is what i got.
still have about a week ,if temps don't go up to work on the look.have also started beginners javascript and with no spare time went to see an allotment to plant vegs.my friends chickened out when they saw the people working. as everyone knows fruit, vegs and meat come from the supermarket.  ¯\ ( ツ ) /¯ 
looks like it's not going to happen this year because i can't handle 15 mts on my own . plus we are a family of 2 and my building is almost empty therefore no neighbors to share the produce with.will continue with my 2x1 urban veg garden ,already planted 2 kinds of lettuce.






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Monday, March 18, 2024

zeitgeist?



everywhere i look i see temporal paradox references. latest is a j drama on netfilx. could be  that i was not aware until now. here's nº 11 .along with noº 10 and nº 13 they hveas woven themselves into a tryptic.will show the whole when it's finished. that's going to be a pickle to photograph    ⋋__⋌  





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Friday, March 15, 2024

in memoriam


toriyama akira mangaka1955-2024. the man who gave us pink unchis.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

my pleasure


temporal paradox 10 when all falls together no matter how slow. photos taken last weekend not so. a royal PITA. need to re shoot them again especially the white ones.considering buying a short telephoto lens to try and solve some of the problems including lens distortion on the edges.
setting up the tabletop tent for shooting is a chore, especially when you don't have the space.hauling all downstairs is an avoidable move if i can. seems it's unavoidable as the works are bigger than my regular small works.
the only good news is that the ones i took for a juried show here came out well. now i need to sit down fill the forms and write the blurb.



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Monday, March 11, 2024

adhd



working on this one, still more to do.started yet one more time to study coding in an on line course.
never been able to go beyond the explanations of the enunciations no matter how interested i am in learning to code.let's see if this time the going back to japanese, aka some discipline, helps.
i can only envision myself writing code to animate my fractals, that should be enough push.











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Friday, March 08, 2024

on ma


ma. é–“
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Thursday, March 07, 2024

i get it


the paperworks.other than fun exercises what i am actually doing is getting the hang of different printing possibilities which will give me confidence when i start printing on cloth with natural dyes. wow, that's a sentence now!
paper is a lot more forgiving than cloth , there's a long path to walk until confidence.but no one's watching  ( ̄ω ̄ ) 
at the same time weaving continues.















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Tuesday, March 05, 2024

following a white rabbit


the first one of the second warp.funny how the more you work on an idea the more options it generates.the proverbial rabbit hole. 

 I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth

there are about 3 more meters on the loom  to work on hopefully exhausting the possibilities.at least the ones i can think of.


















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Monday, March 04, 2024

awol is a misnomer



in suffering mode.for one, intense cold ans snow on the hills with all the plants already out.clematis with buds ,momijis with tender leaves out,and jasmine budding. <( _____  )>




on the other hand indoor xmas cactus after discovering it is not actually a cactus,hence watering ,doing well.









however the real pickle was turning the studio into a tabletop photo space and photograph 2 series of works, one of them white. (>人<) two weeks of shooting with lights popping out having to reach out for amazon. all done  next comes editing and uploading to the page.since i update about every 2-3 years when i come back there are lots of new features which i have to learn.years ago the platforms were user friendly for no geeks like me, now they've gotten extremely pro and you need to hire one to do the work.which is like putting your kid through college. let's see if i can continue or i should start contemplating closing the page down.










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Friday, February 23, 2024

if you can get your hands on

 



gorgeous bluish and redish  purples 
this also applies to yarns and fabric.no info on wool bcse japan didn't have sheep until the europeans came.



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Thursday, February 22, 2024

ninjin



🥕🥕🥕 my favorite  no brainer dye. a pretty yellow green, sometimes bordering chartreuse. funny how i've come to understand and like the formerly hated green.this is silk mordanted with alum at 10%wof and dyed at 20% dyestuff per  wof.
verifying that potash alum on silk gives better brighter colors,also dyeing cold which preserves the colorants in the dyestuff, especially fresh raw stuff.
next time you buy a carrot bunch try dyeing with the tops.



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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

more paperwork

for a change of pace scope and point of view. all these are printing practices.i promised a friend a scarf and i want to print it using natural dyes.however the  design,techniques, the practice are the same. i also need to  create a different set up for printing fabric.roughing up the kinks for when i get serious.
this one needs to blend the elements a bit more don't you think?












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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

the last of the first


this is the last piece from the first warp, the second warp is already up .
this is a slow  but enjoyable project.a reflection on the temporal paradox concept. amplifying the exam on  my last 15 years in barcelona living as a functional hikikomori -minus the hoarding mind you    (^o^) . all those people and blogs that supported me during those years are now gone, as my hikikomori days.you can't change the past or else you incur in a temporal paradox.
have a social life now and living among nature and not cement highly helps.








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Monday, February 19, 2024

happiness fix


took loads of patience but i managed to fix the one and only brother umbrella swift.sturdy japanese made unlike the new chinese made flimsy ones, hence the interest in fixing it.this one will go with me to the grave.   ( ¨¨ ω¨¨ )    








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Friday, February 09, 2024

to compost or not to compost?


that is the question.heartwarming to hear the guru say japanese indigo masters.


















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Wednesday, February 07, 2024

paradoxical truism concerning patience


the good news is that while the paint layers dry on paper i can proceed with the weaving. 
these series are gratifying albeit slow in execution. this baby is done and the warp is
almost finished.thinking about making some more chains and tieyng the ends to the
remaining  stubs.perhaps not so long a warp this time bcse i just want to explore this last pattern.
the threading is perfectly debbuged so the only considerations are care and patience.
istill need to face the warp on the other loom and debug it.dreading it big time.




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Tuesday, February 06, 2024

all within temporal paradox



'nother old print from school ca. 90's. the intended  focus was the intaglio white part on the right.







development: deconstructed printing













 
too much white on the left , cancelled some of it




the focus changed too much for my liking.masked it in white and thinking about cutting it there where the white mask begins. 
these are fun excercises which revisit those techniques learnt way back.







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Friday, February 02, 2024

from shishou


a new vid about dyeing from the master.
have a good weekend.








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