Journal
Mood of the viewer
Junichiro Tanizaki's 'In praise of shadows' provides many thought provoking ideas. Aside from refreshing an appreciation for shadows and the Japanese sensibility towards light, texture and materiality there are plenty of ideas that can relate to everyday life, perhaps not in the way Tanizaki had intended.
When speaking of the Japanese room he states 'A luster here would destroy the soft fragile beauty of the feeble light. We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them. We never...
The connection to our things
The more time I spend working on Vaughan Baker, the more succinct the ideas and concepts around it's offering become. I have slowly become preoccupied with the attachment we hold to our 'things.' This attachment, whether we know it or not, involves each of us, in some way, to it's design.
I can't seem to absorb enough essays or view enough examples on the subject and I hope that it is reflected in the goods we curate and share with you. The more that I seem to be thinking and reading about this connection to 'things,' I find the more people...
Concrete London
When living in London my favourite place to find silence and inspiration was The Barbican. Somewhat strange for someone that grew up surrounded by nature, but there is something about the relentless concrete that has always captivated me. On a trip to the U.K earlier in the year, I got to spend another happy day taking in it’s exhibitions, forms and grandeur.