Becky Pilditch

Experiment 1: Wooden Hand

Super Prosthetics Project is about exploring armwear as an object of empowerment, choice and identity. The purpose was to conduct a series of creative experiments to challenge current ideas of prosthetics and explore what a wearer might choose to create in that space if he or she could have any functionality or aesthetic. 

The project has been conducted at the Royal Collage of Art in London by Becky Pilditch and with the help of Holly Franklin. It has been developed in conversation with individuals who wear and make prosthetics limbs and the blog has been created to make the process visible for those who wish to share ideas and continue dialogue on the subject.

Each experiment took the form of an object, created for Holly to wear and critique in a public space. The final result was a repertoire of objects that explored the relationship between Holly, her hands and her peers, for the purposes of positive social interaction. 

Experiment 2: Ceramic Hand

Experiment 3: Bejewelled Hook; rhinestone and silver

Experiment 4: Leather Palm

Experiment 5: Glass hand; resin

Experiment 6: Transparent Fingertips; cherry wood and resin

Experiment 7: Hand Puppetry; wood, nylon and steel

Experiment 8: Gestural Hand Series; maple, balsa, nylon and steel (final hand)

Pilar Cotter

Des-nudo, by Pilar Cotter

Musings about transit in communication.

I understand transit as the distance allowed to an emitter between thought and verb, this fictitious hallway where thoughts are filtered, will always be affected by the emotional context enveloping the emitter.

I suppose there are no fixed formulas to activate or facilitate the sorting of this series of emotional complexities which will give rise to either contention or fluidity. Words such as baring or untying come to my head from the collective imaginarium. Words directly related to comunication. Baring implies an act of transparency, untying, the decision to overcome any conflict to transmit what one wishes.

This is how we tie and untie, show and hide, this is how we retain and let go.

Broochs. Porcelain, silver. 11×8 cm, 7×8 cm. 2012.

ins. Porcelain, silver. 11×0,5 cm, 7×1 cm. 2012

Broochs. Porcelain, silver. 13×7 cm. 2012.

Pablo Reinoso

 

What starts with an underlying functional form in the work of artist Pablo Reinoso often gets carried away as his furniture pieces begin to take on lives of their own. The crawling tendrils and stretched figures that emerge are rendered all the more exotic by his defiant use of hard wood with soft organic forms. This designer is perhaps most well known for his remarkable wooden spaghetti benches in which the normal ends of wood slats become the beginning of a seemingly living form that twists and turns away from the conventional shape of the bench itself – and just imagine what an outdoor version of this bench would look like against, for example, an ivy-covered brick wall.

Claudia Corcilius

 

Work in progress for Claudia Corcilius (CiCi)
From ornamentation to prosthetic...
Jewelry/body customization/...
Parameters: body part radius, number of twists, spacing between rings...
Script coming...