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Things folded and connected


‘Oritsunagumono’ (translated as ”things folded and connected”) is a collection of origami works by artist takayuki hori, created to highlight the environmental threat of pollution to a number of species native to japan’s coastal waterways.

Each translucent sheet is first printed with either the images of fragments of an animal’s skeleton, or, on some pages, human-made discarded objects that are often ingested by the animals in the wild. Using the ancient tradition of folded paper, hori assembles the pages into a three-dimensional model. Once the paper is folded, the printed components are united as a whole, telling the visual story of the animal’s plight to survive in an increasingly polluted and hazardous ecosystem.

While the animal skeletons appear as x-ray images, the garbage they ingest is frequently highlighted in colour.

Too cute. Source DesignBoom.
Thanks to Beni from Outfacing for sharing 🙂

Flags and oddities




I’ve been in Hong Kong last week. While making pictures I did not realize that the flags were there repeated for the people to collect them. Eight or nine streets full of textile suppliers found by chance. As well as the streets for trimmings, metal pieces, ribbons, beads. And also tanners! There is a world of possibilities wide open. Generally a minimum quantity of 5 yards with a full color range available. Easy.

I brought some flags and materials as souvenir, and I had left with the feeling that everything remain possible.

For Hong Kong full version check on my personal diary 😉

Maysun Photographer



This week I discovered Maysun and I have fallen in love with her work.
She is an Spanish-Palestinian photographer based in Bangkok, Thailand.

”I’m compromise with my job because I consider that it’s a way to be engaged and consistent with my convictions and my ethics. Photography is a way to be engaged with our world.”
Maysun Photographer, read more about her.

Collecting colors


Production it is the important step to be solved while the real commerce start. Some areas can be in a way industrialized, another ones are giving the best results if they remain handcrafted. As you already know our production it takes part in Spain.

Cutting by hand, classifying by colour… and carefully matching the pieces will build each bag.

Lots of red coming!

Elegance


Elegance comes out of poverty, as creation comes out of void. Is not about reconsidering what it is necessary above all, it is about creating from a lack but not just mixing things together with big terms. It is imagination, the cult of elegance, the dream and the escape from the hub, creating images of prosperity and wealth.

This text it is about those people that are not resigned to live the life they are supposed to.

Images by Héctor Mediavilla and Baudouin Mouanda. About ”Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes” (S.A.P.E.)

The exibition and more info
(”Un sueño de ida y vuelta. La Sape congolesa” Casa África. Calle Alfonso XIII, 5. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)

”¿quiénes somos para negar a otros el humano deseo de soñar? Y esto es lo que procuran todos los días los sapeurs, construyéndose una vida de sueños en la que a veces viven despiertos y otras con los ojos cerrados.”