THE REBECCA JOY LANDES WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM

Be Your Own Guinea Pig: Entering Andrea Zittel's 'Critical Space'

2012-02-14T21:49:00.000-05:00

I always reference this Jerry Brown quote where he was talking about the importance of becoming a 'citizen' versus just becoming a 'consumer', says Zittel. I worry that we've become so conditioned as consumers that we're only capable of choosing from the options that are presented to us. We need to remember we're capable of creating other options, that there's a whole other world of possibilities beyond what we're being offered.

Link // Arty Nelson // LA Weekly // April 2007

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Charles and Ray always had a highly refined sense of occasion.

With the Eamses, photography was part of the design process, a way of discovering and exploring.

Charles and Ray had a deep respect for effort that had gone before. It was not a matter of avoiding work, but rather of avoiding the pitfalls of pursuing novelty for its own sake.

The hands on process, the ability to do something over and over until it was right, was the key.

The mistakes made and thus the lessons learned from the miserable first tries would be India's, and the country might internalize the knowledge and build from these trials and errors.

Eames Demetrios // found in An Eames Primer

Andrea Zittel's Indy Island

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Link // Indy Island

Andrea Zittel

2012-02-14T17:52:00.002-05:00

Her work breathes a feeling of freedom, autonomy and self-determination; we can read in it a responsible attitude to life. She also organizes her daily life and activities in such a way as to foster conservation as far as possible.

Zittel views concept, method and praxis as one and the same; care for one's self and for the environment is a way of giving meaning to life in a world in which micro and macro, the individual and the environment are all organically linked.

from Aware: Art Fashion Identity

Andrea Zittel

2012-02-12T22:20:00.000-05:00

Things that you think are liberating can actually become extremely confining or restrictive or oppressive and things that you think are controlling can actually give you a greater sense of security and liberation.

Link // Andrea Zittel // Art 21

"Everything she touched she turned into something magical."

2012-02-12T19:09:00.000-05:00

10 Ideas and A Secret Mission

2012-02-12T17:44:00.000-05:00

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do ... How would I be? What would I do? -Buckminster Fuller

Link // Keri Smith // Nowhere Island

Creating A Zero-Waste Garment

2012-02-12T17:25:00.000-05:00

Getting back to the “waste not, want not” mentality of our grandparents is a worthwhile challenge, because when it comes to being sustainable, our ancestors knew a thing or two.

Link // Chappell Ellison // Etsy Blog

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Charles and Ray perceived the ability to explore what interested them as the ultimate richness in life and, therefore the proper way to use their own resources.

Eames Demetrios // found in An Eames Primer

2012-02-06T21:43:00.003-05:00

Drawing pictures was an idle way of finishing an unprofitable mornings work. Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf // found in A Room Of One's Own

OK Go - Needing/Getting

2012-02-06T21:23:00.000-05:00