by Mia Straka | Oct 5, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Since Wednesday 17 June I have been documenting my time with daily diagrams, so far I’ve drawn nearly 16 weeks: 110 days. Instigated in response to earlier conversations with Manon about weaving work that translates specific data, my pictographs include...
by Aphra Cheesman | Oct 1, 2020 | Aphra Cheesman, Handshake6
I recently came across this book which helped to bring together some of the ideas I’ve been thinking and reading about. It’s also helped me to set some parameters on what I am making as The Everyday is very broad and I got to a point a few months ago where I felt I...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Sep 16, 2020 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
In 2001, British artist Michael Landy addressed excess consumerism and waste, by destroying all his possessions in an art project called “Break Down”. In the 3 years leading up to this event, every single one of his 7227 possessions was carefully classified and...
by Susan Videler | Sep 11, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
I’ve had time to muse recently and realised how prevalent the knot is in our lives. Here follows a short chronology of their entwining in my life. One of our first moments as a human involves the severing of the life blood cord, that energy transfer complete and a...
by Nikki Perry | Sep 6, 2020 | Handshake6, Nikki Perry
Blank. Full moon…lack of sleep. Just spent the last two and a half weeks in Level 3 lockdown again in Auckland, New Zealand after an outbreak of Covid-19 from a mystery source. This time we were a little unprepared. Our heroic Covid-free world status was...
by Antonia Boyle | Sep 6, 2020 | Antonia Boyle, Handshake6
This post is not for the faint of heart (or stomach). It features images or descriptions of handing meat and animal bones. Before you start preparing your bones you need to know what to ask for and where to get them. I get my bones from a local butchery, it’s best to...
by Amelia Rothwell | Sep 3, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
Stones. You lie on the ground, minding your own business when I go for a walk in the countryside. On the shore, you watch the waves come tumbling towards you, sometimes catching you and drawing you back to tumble gently backwards and forwards for another...
by Michelle Wilkinson | Sep 3, 2020 | Handshake6, Michelle Wilkinson
Love what you have Before life teaches you To love what you Lost – unknown …trying to put my thoughts and research into perspective… Invertebrates are a much maligned but overwhelmingly crucial component of the living environment. Without...
by Fran Leitch | Aug 31, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6
(August 2020) Tie at end of sleeve. False end? Or real? The annoying childhood quote which I’m still trying to tie/sew up lose ends with…and accomplish – Practice, Patience, and Persistence! (August 2020) 10 days, 4 hours of sewing per...
by Amelia Rothwell | Aug 24, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
‘The poet… is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs… the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.’ Derrida, 1982* ‘The poet’s job...
by Aphra Cheesman | Aug 21, 2020 | Aphra Cheesman, Handshake6
“On our walk we encounter a few peculiar, rather incongruous objects, sometimes very much alone while others are in groups and radiate vigour and strength without ever being obtrusive. These are small things that speak to you and although you do not always know their...
by Macarena Bernal | Aug 21, 2020 | Handshake6, Macarena Bernal, Sample
Im studying skin colours, in the search for a colour system or Pantone. Drawn to the word degrade, its meanings, its connotations. Degraded, degrading, degradé. And what it could mean to wear it. I noticed that this set of sphere halves, resembled the colour pallet of...
