Balkan Fibre Art ’08 – gallery lll
After introducing Biljana Roman’s artworks, it’s time to present her creative process. From the first knot, clothing plastic doll in rope twists, till the final graceful flow of figures.
After introducing Biljana Roman’s artworks, it’s time to present her creative process. From the first knot, clothing plastic doll in rope twists, till the final graceful flow of figures.
This is going to be my shortest blog post ever here. No, no… I haven’t mixed it up with twittering… I like ‘tellin’ storiez’, it’s like a mental gymnastics, see… but I have some blog-ish quickie today for your dirty mindz…
Lafoxe (c) Continue reading
‘Oxygen (from the Greek roots oxys – acid, literally “sharp”, from the taste of acids) and -genes (producer, literally begetter) is the element with atomic number 8 and represented by the symbol O.’
Creating in textile usually starts with traditional education, learning all kinds of strict procedures, characters of textile, materials and their qualities; but as every good artists, Biljana Roman escaped all these rules and found her very individualistic expression: three-dimensional tapestries shaped like dome, fibre structures that weightlessly float in the air or hang like a filling without a warp… She’s a truly special weaving lady who’s skilled to wrap you around the finger on a very first sight.
Pink Dreams Continue reading
You know, I’m not attached a lot to cell phones (I have it because of the people I like, not for myself… most of the time I leave it at the bottom of my bag or a pocket…)… but my computers… my computers are certainly a sort of my friends… sure, they both have names (as many people do it) … Emily and Corto… Emily is Asus Eee, and Corto is Fujitsu Siemens.
(No. I’m not a Mac user anymore. Sorry! I used to be at the beginning of the century, but I needed for my work PC. Yeah, I know… I’ve betrayed all open minded middle_wanna_be_high_class_population or digital bourgeoisie. Just kiddin’… OK?! )
Photo: Satomi&Perner Wilson (c) Continue reading
During the Balkan Fibre Art Nena Skoko, also one of the main initiators of the whole event, made an intriguing work called ‘Seven Women’s Days’. On the first level it’s humoristic and provoking, but it also reveals some of the crucial elements in female nature – the period is not just a physical process, it also functions on psychological and emotional sphere.