The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
I have been doing some drawings at The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, mostly of 1950s domestic advertisements. The idea for this was to give me some graphic language within which to possibly develop some scores/prints with sonic content. I really want to get the visual aspect of my scores/prints right, and 1950s domestic […]
Mess is beautiful.
I’m thrilled to find there is so much love for Messy Tuesdays. All these photos of mess have a defiant, celebratory dimension that puts me in mind of Toni Morrison’s writing in The Bluest Eye. For those of you who haven’t read the book, you must, if only for the amazing rant against the over-sanitisation […]
Messy Tuesdays
Yes things are messy around here which is good, because today is Messy Tuesday! To start with let us look at this corner of the living room. We have two large boxes filled with files and books for sale on Amazon respectively. On top of these lies an ancient piece of purple/pink tweed that I […]
Finished Object – Felix’s Studio Fittings and paint job
Pattern: Own designMaterials: Around £10 worth of screws, Scrapstore paint, scrap/waste wood, IKEA furniture oddments, old family table, posturite desk I had already and random table that was in the garage already. Many planks of wood reclaimed from the old garage roofTime: I began work on the fittings and paintwork towards the end of FebruaryCost: […]
Misr Wot
When I started Sticks’n’String at The Global Cafe, little did I realise how much the Ethiopian Food served there on Tuesdays would come to feature in my week. I am not the only blogger to have noted the Ethiopian food; a couple of weeks ago I discovered Joanna’s post about the wonderful Misr Wot and […]
Finished Object
…In all the excitement of messy Tuesdays, I clean forgot to post about my knitted bag. But before I move onto that, here is a button I made for anyone who wants to spread the love that is messy Tuesdays: Help yourself. And do resize, chop down etc. or make your own if you think […]
Messy Tuesdays.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17 I have got some kind of stinking cold of death which means no knitting tonight at The Global Cafe and less […]
Constructs
Construct is one of my favourite words. I love its versatility and the way it can relate to both theory (the construct of gender, for instance) and to the physical process of making (the construction of shelves or garments, etc.) This weekend I have thought variously about all aspects of constructiveness. My first thoughts relate […]
Clothing the hands and using up stuff
I was reading in an essay in The Politics of Housework that gave some interesting perspectives on the history of housework. I was struck by how in Victorian years a man’s social standing was measured in terms of how much leisure time his wife enjoyed, and how the corresponding fashion for ‘ladies’ was for gloves. […]
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