Painting I did some time ago.


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Out painting with Gsulf and Seb. I had an appointment, so I had only an hour to paint, and being me I started painting something big. Obviously, I couldn’t fill the background, but Mattie was there to fill it for me : )


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Gsulf


S.Touache

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Gsulf and me and blue sky :-)


Gsulf


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I can spend hours and hours at vide-greniers (flea markets). Yes, I love them. During the summer holiday, after our tandem trip, we went to Île d’Oléron for the weekend. One morning, we went to a vide-grenier. Since I try to buy less at flea markets these days, I took pictures of things I wanted buy but resisted.

Not pictured are a few things I couldn’t resist and brought them home ; )

A view from the helicopter ride.

Oléron oysters. Many many of them went into my belly : )

A very photogenic lighthouse of Oléron.

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Paint day with Gsulf, Christ, me


Gsulf


Christ


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This past spring, Yvon Lambert Bookshop was having an exhibition of an artist/illustrator whom I instantly became a fan of. His name is Philippe Weisbecker. He was born in France in 1942, lived in the US in the late 60’s and moved back to France in mid 70’s.

His works I’ve seen so far are illustrations of objects and architectures, composed with clean lines, often drawn with rulers, and playful with skewed perspectives. They are naïve, but so refined and mature at the same time. I’m a fan.

When I first saw his work, I questioned myself why I hadn’t heard of him before. Strangely all my artist friends also haven’t heard of him. Perhaps I depend too much on the internet to see artists’ works, expecting everyone to be present on the web. Note to self – that there are other ways to find artists such as exhibitions and books.

Here are some of his zines purchased from the exhibition. They are super. I especially find <ACCESSOIRES> beautiful.

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Exposition Philippe Weisbecker – Élémentaire
At Yvon Lambert
April 15 – May 27 2018

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In July, I had an exhibition at A-frame, and I made a drape for the show. It was one of eight drapes I had sketched earlier this year. It was a cozy show partly because A-frame is a perfectly cozy place, and partly because of the people who visited. It was also lovely to see them trying on the drape which cocooned them.

Here are some pictures of the show.

And today, I wanted to share a few photos of the making process.

After the cutting of the fabric, each piece was placed and pinned. Then they were all hand sewn on to the main fabric.

I wanted the drape to have some volume, so I sandwiched some wool inside.

After placing the wool inside, I hand quilted the whole drape.

A shaky photo of the drape and I. If you closely, I’m wearing a fanny pack which holds my thread, scissors, pins, and needles : )

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Picture of Saeio’s paintings taken during my last trip in Marseille.

 

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It’s no secret here I like Paul Cox ; ) Last year, a Paul Cox book came out in Japan <PAUL COX DESIGN & ART>, but it wasn’t easily available outside of Japan. On my birthday last month, Mattie surprised me with it! He ordered it straight from Japan! He also surprised me with Paul Cox’s original work on my birthday two years ago ; )

This book includes his works, some techniques he uses, his ateliers. As his works and info are not widely available online, in a world where everyone shares too much, this book is ever more precious.

Besides this book, I got so many more presents : )

A pin from Alicia Mccarthy. You can find it on Muddguts.

A vintage storage trolley designed by Joe Colombo in the 70’s, called Boby. When I was making a drape to prepare for the exhibition at A-frame, I briefly mentioned how convenient it would be to have a portable trolley to hold all the sewing materials, so I can just roll it next to me wherever I go. Mattie remembered it <3

Blessed to be one year older and not much wiser hehe.

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PAUL COX DESIGN & ART
isbn 978-4-7562-4941-8

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It’s been a few weeks since my film 결 premiered on NOWNESS, and now it also lives on my Vimeo page. And it proudly wears a VIMEO STAFF PICK badge on the top left corner! What?!!! is what I said when I first saw the badge :)

From premiering on NOWNESS to being selected as VIMEO STAFF PICK, I’m foremost grateful. Especially because it is such a small film. It all birthed in my small living room where I conceptualized, set designed, filmed, edited, composited, colored, with no crew and no fancy equipment, and all the props were sourced either from a second-hand shop or from dumpsters. I don’t dumpster hunt often, but I enjoy it enough to know where I can find dumpsters full of fabrics and dumpsters full of flowers. And the rest, I picked them up from a shop which sells second-hand props from other productions. This way of prop searching required me to be flexible – I didn’t know what flowers I was going to find, I couldn’t choose the colors of the fabrics I was going to dig up, I couldn’t predict the things I was going to come across at a second-hand shop. Some might call this a challenge, but for me, this was a blessing because it gave a little boundary I had to work with which usually lacks in personal projects.

I didn’t take many behind-the-scenes photos while filming, because I was alone and I forgot to take photos. But here are some. Warning – it’s messy and heavily improvised with anything and everything I can find useful around the house, including a laundry drying rack, plant pots, books, canvas, record player, coffee tins, etc. Perhaps you will look at the film differently after seeing these making-of photos; you might be disappointed that there’s no spacious studio nor professional equipment; the film might lose its ‘magic.’ I hesitated, hesitated and hesitated. But I love watching other’s behind-the-scenes, I always learn from them, and somehow they motivate me to make films. So I share these in hope that you feel the same way.


Believe it or not, everything you see in this mess has a function ; )


To get the ball to roll down and stop right in front of the hole, I think I rolled the ball close to 100 times, or at least it felt like it. Also in reality, I only had this small block of red carpet, and the pink curtain didn’t cover the entire wall. That was a bit of the running theme while shooting, making things look bigger, larger and wider than what was available.


At 5.30AM, the tripod which should’ve been locked got shifted ever so slightly. Who kicked it?! Must’ve been me since I was alone : ( Tried for almost an hour to match the shots with no luck. I gave up when I saw the sun coming up and had a reshoot the day after.


It takes longer to set up lights and shoot when you are also in the film. Yes, it’s me you see in the film : )

Perhaps you want to watch the film one more time after seeing these making-of photos? And since the shoot, I promise my house is back in order!

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