posted by cehannon @ 8:38 AM
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Last week I concentrated on documenting texture; differentiating between the subtleties of shin, gyo, and so. Examples like the posts that adorn each of the three tokanomas came to mind. Shin's being geometric and extremely flat. Gyo's is reminiscent of its natural form (notches and all) but is lacquered and still relatively smooth. So's retains the most personality and is highly tactile. Other items around the Japan House vary to the same degree: from the samurai helmet's ornamentation and braiding, to carvings, wall hangings, and even the bark found on the southwestern wall. I found it interesting that during the tea ceremony Dyson also pointed out the attention to detail in regards to the mats. Depending on how people were to be oriented in the room, the mats were aligned in such a way where the guests would sit "with the grain" of the weave. Subtle, but impressive once we noticed it.
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these images are beautiful charles.
i would like to encourage you to consider making a process book for this class for yourself... a documentation book... with your ideas and what you learned and these images that you captured... i can't imagine it not being a strong representation of process and how you experienced a different set of principles and found them applicable to your design.
j
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