le style et la matière: Halloween

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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Like a spider on the ceiling

photo: Le style et la matière

Seen in a waiting room for guided tours at the château of Versailles.

Did that just happen - or did the designer do it on purpose? The spider is the very symbol of waiting. Happily, not one visitor was wrapped up as a meal before, during or after the tour.

Man Ray

No arachnophobe, but I'm not always completely relaxed around these creatures.

nusch eluard par man ray

It's largely a question of their size, pilosity and proximity.

late Victorian brooch from Pinterest

chanel brooch

monster Spider, sometimes called Maman by Louise Bourgeois
source

I can nonetheless appreciate what their form inspires in art

Gallé vase Pinterest

Woodcut illustrations by GW Dijsselhoffrom
BibliOdyssey

Victorian purse Pinterest

Gareth Pugh

and very definitely, their own woven art form and its imitations.

black sprite flowers

There are spider-like flowers

golden orb spider posing as a flower

and flower-like spiders.

Odilon Redon

What are you, my friend?

odilon redon

"Why, just that, your friend," she grinned.

Bruno Freire ignat

Have you seen?

There seems to be a greater appreciation

Erik Griffioen Ragno

of arachnian geometry recently -

Romain Duclos Mini Ragno

and of the intricacies

and ingenious harmony of their webs.

Friend or foe, it's their season now. They come in to warm their legs.
Everyone tells me that a house with spiders is a healthy house.
Shouldn't we celebrate?!

Pinterest photos here

Friday, October 31, 2014

Le redoutable chat noir

Hommage to black cats!

Still to this day, maligned and mistrusted,

but always appreciated by artists

for their

graphic potential,

their clever and amusing ways.

and their mysterious demeanor.

Tonight's their night, after all.

All images from the site

Le club des chats noirs.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Spirits of the loom

Hussein Chalayan
source Design Cat Walk

GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

"There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it?

source Buzzfeed

And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith."

from

THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

by Ambrose Bierce