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claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-76810258081292620602015-06-13T10:26:00.000+01:002015-06-13T10:27:32.115+01:00I am taking a sabbatical...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I am finding it difficult to keep up with this blog mainly due to the fact that my MA blog is taking precedence. So this one is either neglected and/or repetitive, also I am doing very little else apart from my MA that I can write about!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Therefore I have decided that until I complete my MA I must give this one a rest. I shall return in November 2016, meanwhile PLEASE follow my <i>'<a href="http://www.mapractice.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">State of Flux' blog</a></i>... also I would appreciate ANY comments AT ALL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Thank you so much for reading and I shall see you on the other side :-)</span></div>
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<br />claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-72897749040835644872015-05-03T14:24:00.000+01:002015-05-03T14:24:45.965+01:00About Chernobyl - copied and pasted from me to me...<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I can't decide whether to have this AND my MA blog running or combine the two, what does anyone think?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">For now I'm copying and pasting the post I've just written about my Chernobyl trip from my MA blog!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some
said 'brave', some couldn't understand why we would even wish to go
there, some were envious…we (me, my partner, my 2 x 21 year old
daughters and one boyfriend <i>- I was very impressed they all desperately wanted to come</i>) were excited and really had no idea what to expect. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personally
and ostensibly it was for my MA research (though no excuse needed) and I
was looking forward to meeting the re-settlers and to discover their
reasons for choosing to go back and live on the edge of the exclusion
zone which is still a very dangerous place to live due to the invisible
enemy 'radiation poisoning'. It has been said that the longevity of the
re-settlers lives is due to their quality of life and happiness in
being 'home' which negates the effects of the radiation. The dangers of
which is more preferable to them than living in a city's high-rise away
from their farms and the countryside. </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ivan (Mikhail) Ivanovitch, Security (!) and Ivan's house</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and a happy Ivan</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However,
after my visit, I realised there were so many other aspects regarding
the 'Chernobyl issue' that I couldn't confine my interest to just the
re-settlers and I have reverted to my original thoughts about dark
tourism, collective trauma and collective memory, then overarching or
underpinning this, the 'correctness' of interpreting such unspeakable,
atrocities and heinous issues via an aesthetic means. <i>(N.B. I may be visiting Auschwitz later this year).</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
trip itself was mesmerising (for want of a better word) from start to
finish. There were days either side spent in Kiev and an airbnb
apartment which were fantastic, although kind of 70's, and unbelievably
cheap. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Back to the 2 days spent in Chernobyl. Radiation dose expected equivalent = one hospital x-ray.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We were with <a href="http://chernobylwel.com/">Chernobylwel.com</a>
(fantastic!) - a tour, only/easiest way to get in, and of a very mixed
group, 17 persons and a guide. There were other families and some
couples, some groups of friends and a few people travelling alone which
was a very nice mix. People from USA, Finland, Germany, Austria, Spain,
Sweden, UK and Switzerland at least, which I loved and people of all
ages 18 -70.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the minibus on the way to the power plant + Laura</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> We
weren't quite sure exactly where we were going and in what order but
this was where we went, in order (I think!) This was after we checked in
at the hotel, in <i>CHERNOBYL</i>, within the 30km exclusion zone,
which extends on the north side into Belarus, Russia. We have stayed in
much worse Travelodges in the UK. The food was, shall we say,
interesting - plain and typical Ukrainian food, and the blob of tomato
sauce on the side of plain pasta or rice we found quite amusing. Every
meal was a set menu (all inclusive :-) and we were all served at the
same time, it reminded me of school trips abroad years ago. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Itinerary: </u><br />DAY 1: </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abandoned house in Chernobyl town</td></tr>
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<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chernobyl Town: The Angel of Death monument/memorial </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rusting boats - docks (quickly & from a distance) </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Robots (used in the clean up operation) </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(small) Kindergarten </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cooling towers of unfinished reactor 5 & 6, due for opening in 1988 for Reactors 5 and 6 </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chernobyl nuclear power plant </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reactor number 4 - viewing platform and VERY close</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Fireman memorial</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Bridge & giant catfish </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reactor number 4 & Memorial </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New sarcophagus ('safe' distance) </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pripyat ''Ghost City'': (inhabitants were given two hours notice to evacuate, almost two days <i>after</i> the explosion - already too late)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Cafe </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Prometheus cinema </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Local Council Admin Building</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pripyat Plaza- </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Polesie Hotel </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Palace of Culture: "Energetik" </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Amusement park </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soccer stadium - Stadium Avangard</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Middle/Grammar school </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Swimming pool (in use by the liquidators and other people working in the Zone up until 1996)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tower block (roof of)</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We got back to the hotel sometime before 8pm (there's a curfew), had dinner and sampled the bar.<br />Oh, there are no toilets in Chernobyl/Pripyat <i>that you can actually use</i>,
only bushes (!) so be prepared to wait up to 6 hours if you're like me,
then also be prepared for the most awful toilet ever which is located
at the checkpoint... not sure it was better than a bush to be honest.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Radiation detectors going in and out of the exclusion zone</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>DAY 2: </u></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chernobyl Zoo (I would say small farm or pets corner) </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bridge
of Death; where people flocked to watch the flames of the explosion and
consequently received lethal doses of radiation. I think if it had
happened at Hartlepool, the people of Billingham would have probably
done the same. Also, there were people travelling on a train going under
the bridge on their way to Moscow at the time of the explosion who also
received very high dosage of radiation, an extreme case of wrong place,
wrong time. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pripyat: Hospital, one of my favourite places, very emotional and evocative. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Combined
School (collapsed in April 2013- the snow that falls in the winter has
caused most of the damage to the city, I think soon it will all possibly
be too destructed to visit)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Greenhouse </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Telephone exchange?</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jupiter Factory (could have stayed here all day)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Police station and cells with exercise yard</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Old Fire Station (with garage), all the men who worked here died. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kindergarten 2 ( a bigger one) </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open air military museum (possibly, it was somewhere with trucks) </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meeting
local inhabitants in the Resettlement zone (unbelievable and great for
my research) I have recorded an interview but can't get it off my phone
as yet. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Late
lunch at power station (an experience, I wouldn't like to eat there
every day - rumour has it it's always exactly the same) - there are
still workers building the new (overdue) sarcophagus which will protect
the world from the radiation that is still being emitted and possibly
escaping as we speak through the holes in the old one. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vehicle graveyard - Chernobyl (possibly through the red forest - I wasn't even sure where we were at the time)</span></span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swimming Pool, Pripyat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gymnasium, Pripyat</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I
am now desperate to return and hopefully this time next year I will. I
found out so much information, one thing I hadn't realised was that a
second, more powerful explosion was only very narrowly avoided, one
which would have wiped out the whole of Europe -completely. We were so
unaware. And <i>'Tens of thousands of Soviet citizens filed into
Chernobyl to help, considering it their patriotic duty; all were exposed
to dangerous levels of radiation with no warning from the government.'</i>
And did you also realise that the Chernobyl disaster was instigation
for Glasnost and the fall of the USSR. It truly did change the world in
many ways. <span style="color: black;">'<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/nuclear_power/2013/01/chernobyl_and_the_fall_of_the_soviet_union_gorbachev_s_glasnost_allowed.html" target="_blank"><i>According
to Gorbachev, the Chernobyl explosion was a turning point that “opened
the possibility of much greater freedom of expression, to the point that
the system as we knew it could no longer continue.”</i></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reactor No.4, the bad part is behind the concrete blocks</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An overview of the disaster and situation is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster" target="_blank">here.</a></i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
whole experience was like NOTHING I have ever experienced before. The
pictures you see on the internet give NO indication of the feeling you
get by being there. It is truly amazing, I have never seen
anything/anywhere like it in my life… it is the most unbelievable,
disconcerting, silent, strangely beautiful place I believe I will ever
see.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
still haven't managed to work my way through all my photographs so
these are just a very small selection of the first lot- it is <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SO difficult to give a good <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">indication</span> of the whole trip. </span></span>I will publish a couple of albums on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/claireabaker2" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> as soon as possible.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Men working on the new sarcophagus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Housing block in Pripyat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Changing rooms - football stadium</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ferris wheel built for Mayday 1986</td></tr>
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</span>claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-64690333685853334442015-04-09T23:12:00.001+01:002015-04-09T23:12:43.028+01:00Daphne’s Glove OR ‘The presence of Daphne’s absence’ OR ‘Traces of Daphne’…
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="color: #444444;">This is a collective project I was asked to participate in many
months ago. I knew it would be difficult alongside everything else I have taken
on but it sounded exciting, it was flattering to be invited and the deadline was way off. The deadline is no
longer way off, in fact it is the end of this month and is galloping towards
me. The project will culminate in a joint exhibition with 11 other artists and
our, well <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i> progress is documented
through social media so please look here...</span> <a href="http://agroupgathering.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">‘A Group Gathering’</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I have found it incredibly difficult to try and fit this project
in but I have been determined since the beginning to create something aesthetically pleasing at the very least.</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> However,</span></i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> it has, I
admit, been much more difficult than I thought. And now it has come to
producing <i>the</i> final piece my
intentions are faltering again. Technically, I keep disappointing myself. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">My thoughts and ideas have only slowly taken shape and evolved. I wanted to ‘suggest’
the absent wearer (Daphne), a <u>trace</u> of her if you will, hopefully to provoke a sentiment,
a connection, questions…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">For my MA I have been researching memory; items left behind that
suggest past lives, then conversely objects that could/would be evocative but
are no longer there (physically) and trying to work out how to invent this
using fabric and thread.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">After much experimentation into technique albeit based on a
different visual, I thought I had an excellent plan for Daphne’s glove. The
reality is though that great ideas rarely look so great when immediately put
into practice. So I struggle on…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I am working on a fabric piece, eventually using a somewhat
darker palette than I started with, suggesting/indicating that Daphne has
passed, though her femininity and <span> </span>(futile?)
attempts at ‘ladylike-ness’ remain. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="color: #444444;">Using screen printing techniques and a photographic, negative
image of the (opened) glove I have ‘removed’ the image from the fabric only
leaving an imprint of it, just as Daphne did on life.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The florals were printed using a stencil inspired
by a pattern on a piece of torn wallpaper I photographed in an abandoned
derelict house discovered in Cork, earlier this year – a room forgotten. I originally wanted
the piece to be faded, imperceptible, almost not there but growing with
vibrancy, detail and colour towards the ‘end’, that time when you no longer
care about what other people think or how they see you, caution to the wind and
all that. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">However using the dark background means the discharged elements stand
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: small;">I could overdye the whole thing but I would
prefer the glove to stay white so I <i>may</i>
dip dye the lower part of the design to knock it back a little, although I really like the contrast. We shall see after I have slept on it. Then I
MUST start stitching! I sampled the domestic digital machine as it is all I
will have access to for a while but I do intend to also hand embroider…quickly!</span> </span></span></div>
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claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-24182496470292782762015-03-19T22:05:00.000+00:002015-03-19T22:05:43.517+00:00Print-cess<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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are some of the prints I did at the weekend... there is one I love as
is (for now and not shown). There are 4 that have potential within a
collection (of what I'm not sure/worrying about) with more work; i.e.
more layers of print, perhaps some overdying and some embroidery. There
are also two that are awful and unresolvable. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #666666;">But
as I am itching to get started on some design work I am just flinging
out initial ideas using 'materials', I'm sure whatever they finally turn
into will be a million miles away from these
samples. My own
suggestion to myself is that I aim for a collection of just beautiful
fabrics for now and worry about that or see where it goes later. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Discharge on Indigo, screenprint</td></tr>
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claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-60110973631350845072015-03-03T21:35:00.003+00:002015-03-03T21:35:53.588+00:00Scrap Exchange #collagecontest<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail - laser tree</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mine + Lani's</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The story goes... in December I think it was, I was emailed details of my 'partner in collage' - Lani.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It was a Facebook thing ran by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Papirmass" target="_blank">Papirmass</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brwnpaperbag?fref=ts" target="_blank">Brown Paper Bag</a> and there were some big collage names involved. It sounded really interesting and as I love collage and it sounded quite straightforward I decided to sign up. We would be matched with someone from anywhere in the world which was rather exciting and we would exchange scraps and then each/all make a collage combining our own bits and pieces and our partner's.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I duly received my match; living about 30 miles away! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I missed the deadline. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've been so busy and by the time the scraps were exchanged (<i>over Christmas!</i>) it was not a good time. However and <u>luckily</u> I found that the deadline had been extended so breathing a sigh of relief, set to work. It didn't take too long when I finally got down to it... and I think the result is 'interesting' and it was fun. So...good times :-)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Now, what to do with it?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It doesn't fit with my MA work (shown above) but that's the beauty of it I guess.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Now, on with the next deadline... coming soon.</span>claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-74400774521364800002015-01-30T16:04:00.001+00:002015-01-30T19:22:31.281+00:00Some Sketchbook Stuff...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I took a look at my (MA) sketchbook this week... I was worried
that my concept wasn't coming through in a focused enough way. I know why, and
it does generally. But I wanted to take my own advice and get the initial ideas
out of my head and down on paper (in order to let it later develop and
hopefully get more fabulous <i>almost</i> accidentally), so I could get on with
trying to visually communicate (<i><u>perhaps </u></i>through embroidery), what
the main point actually is.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It was fun and lovely and I intend to do (a lot) more this
weekend. This time I may even do some stitching. I am so excited about it at
the moment, slightly worried at the same time but this is what I love and if I
get to do what I love at least some of the time, how amazing is that? I am hoping I
am snowed in for at least a week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">So
I've been busy.... sampling and trying to figure out my final
exhibition piece. The pressure is on as this will be the first piece of
work my MA peers will have ever seen of mine so obviously I want it to
look good BUT the piece of work itself is not assessed so... a quandary.
What IS being assessed is the 'writing' that goes with it, the
collaboration that has taken place, the resulting group exhibition and
the research (I guess.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="color: #666666;">As usual, it quickly
became clear that the idea in my head was not going to look as amazing as I
imagined, and that, almost as soon as I started sampling. I decided to work on
3 identical pieces of fabric - a medium weight linen which would support any
embellishments and still hang nicely, I dyed them all the same sandy
beige/taupe base colour (with coffee because it always works) in various
densities. Then I etched my illustrator drawing of the Hartlepool, Seaton
Carew, Teesside coastline - I wanted a clean crisp line and my thinking was
that it would not only be a hypothetical border but also a barrier - to the
indigo dye I intended to handpaint with... I hoped it would stop at the line, which
it actually did in a few tests. It was rather successful (until I washed it and
it frayed badly - but in a good way (image No. 5).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">A
little washed out, with neon pink Japanese braid pinpointing Seaton
Carew and Hartlepool, I then went for the Irish Machine, NOT for
quickness, <i>really</i>, but because I was aiming for the widest satin
stitch and layers of stitching for a lumpy effect (re. coal). As I
explained to my students who witnessed my swearing at the said Irish,
when they asked what I was doing, this is a 'fine art' outcome not a
'decorative' one :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="color: #666666;">I managed to get a
silk chiffon digital print rushed through (though there was no silk organza
which is my preference). I had to try both colour and black & white, as
I am trying to produce 3 finals so I can choose the best one. I do prefer the
colour against the background. Notice I've laid some glass black beading along
my coastline on the right. Loving it. It says coal so well and not that
blatantly, mmm I might do a questionnaire about that - 'What do YOU think it
means?'</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I folded it up. Now this IS organza, it dyes so beautifully, coffee and
quink ink... then bleach - delicious and as transparent as you can get
without being clear vinyl/shower curtain or tulle. I think the way the
embroidered rivulet band of coal (!) and loose threads can still be seen
through the layers and how they are partially obscured, to be very apt And
then, depending on the way the light hits, you catch a glimmer, a
sparkle of the beads - like hidden treasure just under the surface,
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><u>But first a note:</u></i> We were asked today if we thought the imminent lecture would be relevant to our own work. It was <i>'Memory and the Visual in Post Conflict Northern Ireland</i>', I have to say that I <i>have</i> taken something valuable from every single session or lecture, whether or not I deemed it to be it relevant to me, even if it was just a list of possible words I may use in my written stuff.</span></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span">As a little task for myself I might try and insert all the above into my next presentation to my students</span> :-)</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So most of yesterday was spent taking photographs; it was other-worldly and amazing... like standing on another planet... (and <i>sinking into</i> another planet)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">No apologies for the late post (again); all summer I have been working, decorating (<i>not MY house</i>), cleaning, buying more stuff, playing (<i>a little</i>), all ready for the onslaught of going back to my 'proper' job next week, starting my MA next month and looking forward to a holiday <i>next</i> year.</span>claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-89598077677451968552014-05-18T19:40:00.002+01:002014-05-18T19:44:46.884+01:00I don't paint so good....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">About the budget...I went over; by 100%! Total kitchen cost approximately £2000 (including nearly all thats in it); not bad really when a lot of people pay £15,000+ for a new swish fitted kitchen... I wonder how the hell I actually HAD £2000; I do think it's almost a miracle... the biggest chunks of money had to pay for a) some muscle to pull out the old carcasses, b) the plastering <i>(biggest cost)</i> c) about £150 on PAINT - how expensive is paint??!!! d) I got my Smeg from eBay for £300 e) my other furniture totalled £380 (from eBay <i>over some time</i>)and was cleaned and repainted. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I was <i>really</i> lucky in that my family & friends include a plumber, an electrician, and an all round <i>very</i> handy man who laid the floor, did the extra panelling, built the sink unit, fitted the skirting boards <i>(free from a reclamation yard) </i>and put up the wall units etc. Incidentally the wall units came from <i><a href="http://www.kiwitrading.co.uk/home" target="_blank">'Oz'</a> </i>- a second hand/junk place in Hartlepool; <i>(a treasure trove of old fabulous stuff)</i> for I think £30 each, with the <i>(only a bit broken)</i> original glass <i>(but filthy);</i> the pile of porcelain evaporating dishes <i>(chemistry lab)</i> were also from there, along with some vintage cutlery and numerous other non essentials!</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The cafe curtains are made from stitched together printed muslin seed bags from a car-boot sale (Seaham)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The green formica table was bought last minute on eBay £20.00 & collected from Prudhoe, Northumberland <i>in very bad weather</i></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I made stencils and spray painted the numbers & red cross on the cupboard which was an old shop counter from eBay (delivered by seller from Darlington) £60 approx.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The butchers block/trolley was £7 from eBay, I just had to collect from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Consett, Co. Durham and paint it.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Most of the things in and on the cupboards are what I have accumulated and collected over the years, the most recent additions are mostly from York car-boot sale and a collector friend who was moving to New Zealand</span></li>
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claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-15298488075471572882013-06-23T23:22:00.000+01:002013-06-23T23:22:22.584+01:00Print Art Salvage Handmade<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A full, busy weekend again... BUT this week it is <u><b>not</b></u> being used as an excuse for not blogging. I also know I am well overdue for a newsletter, the trouble is I do have a full time job and with final shows, assessing and New Designers in London this week, it's the busiest time of the year.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So... I am writing this on my way to Sheffield in a 17 seater army minibus to help move out my daughters from their student accommodation for the summer. Better prepare for box carrying and calorie burning :-/</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Yesterday was also very lovely, I went to </span><a href="http://pashdirectory.co.uk/" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank">PASH</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Everyone must go there!</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> My creative friend </span><a href="http://www.joannacoupland.co.uk/" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank">Joanna Coupland</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> recommended it to me, it's housed in an old flax mill just outside of York and it's full of reclamation amazingness and vintage STUFF, and it's beautiful. Prices, on the whole are ok too which is refreshing...look at it!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...a belt from an old machine from a woollen mill, with leather straps and wood slats, don't ask me what I will do with it, it just looks amazing. £15. </span><br />
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claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-34160194330762117252013-04-12T17:29:00.001+01:002013-04-12T17:41:33.538+01:00London Trip No.2<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My second trip to London within the month, was purely for leisure... well I say 'leisure', it did include a LOT of walking and if you know me well you'll know I <u><i>don't</i></u> walk. Though this did mean I got to spot a lot of great street art (and vintage shops)... However, the major highlight of this very lovely weekend was the Kurt Schwitters exhibition at <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/schwitters-britain" target="_blank">Tate Britain</a>, where I got in for the concession price (£1.00 off!)for being a teacher... now there's a perk! This exhibition made me want to give up everything else and become purely a 'collage-ist' ... and I might, I really might. I have been thinking lately, today in particular, what's it all for? <i><u>What IS IT all for</u>????</i></span><br />
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Oh, I can thoroughly recommend the Holiday Inn, Nr Great Portland Street tube station... a central, easy spot and so amazingly comfy beds with <i>smooth</i> crisp white sheets... its one of the secret regents park hotels on last minute dot com.</div>
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claire a bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492646661481058268noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3835205937064120324.post-66000118036883291602013-03-24T13:04:00.001+00:002013-04-12T17:33:53.064+01:00London...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I was really touched by people's thoughtfulness - getting more flowers and even some presents of vintage stuff.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It was a really good night, thanks to everyone who came along, brought their homemade cakes and made it a memorable occasion. I will be putting more pictures of the exhibits on my Facebook page for the duration and hopefully when it closes, a video, so those who can't make it can have an overall impression of the whole thing. Lots of people have said that the work does look much better in real life so please do try to come and see it and stitch a bit... </span><br />
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