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2017 Asialink Arts Residency

Crazed Puppets 04  Crazed Puppets

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“Repetition could be said to be the reverse of innovation, doing the same thing again. But I’m more interested in the spiral quality of repetition, the microinnovations, when something feels like a repetition but it’s slightly changed. Repetition allows you to grow in subtle ways.” Genine Lentine’s “Notes on Innovation” are helping me refocus after weeks of doing the same thing over and over again, but each time slightly different, hoping to find the magic solution that will make damage melt into nothingness and bring my instagram grid out of this depressing bland stage of beige on white on grey. #textileconservation #conservator #textiles #wolbersgels
When I first saw this snippet of a tv news segment about Cheng Shiu University broadcast in the hallway, I was surprised but also excited to think that CSU taught ivory carving, because my family have a 19th century ivory junk that I am hoping to restore one day. However I then realised that the news segment was about a chocolatier competition and that the CSU students’ work was in fact made from white chocolate. Which makes more sense in so many ways, not least the fact that ivory trade is quite rightly banned! An interesting take on the tradition of ivory carving, anyway.
Are you a conservator who has used gels on textiles treatments? Melinda Hey of the University of Lincoln is doing a survey for her MA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and would love to hear from you. Melinda is researching the use of gels in textile conservation, and has a particular interest in the cleaning of textiles with fugitive dyes. Clickable link in my bio or you can also contact Melinda @heyagainmelinda — https://goo.gl/forms/XtEVYCwoJGeaYx653 #textiles #conservationscience #conservator #conservatorsofinstagram #gels #wolbersgels
Waiting for a friend I was idly flicking through a magazine, and what do I stumble across but a double page spread of @inkandspindle_, amazing Melbourne-based textile designers whose beautiful colours and patterns are uniquely Australian. They’re long-time favourites and friends! The random connections between the places I live never fail to amaze me 😍
I asked Tsuzu to write down her process for making agar rigid gels, since she makes them so beautifully and without a single bubble. Her instructions are just as beautiful as her gels 😍😍😍 translation in comments below! #textileconservation #conservationscience #studychinese
Our new favourite book in the Textiles Conservation department at Cheng Shiu University... 《織品服飾 .紙質文物保存專有名詞類編 》 Dictionary for Textile and Paper Artifacts Conservation, published by the Executive Yuan's Cultural Assets Administration. Bilingual illustrated definitions of textile damage and treatment terminology! 😍 I first saw this book when interning at the Taiyuan Asian Puppet Theatre Museum in Taipei, and my very first task for my assistant last week was to hunt down and order our own copy — she is as thrilled as I am! #textileconservation #studychinese
Fellow GCCMC graduate @nickbaybaybay is interning with the paper conservation labs here at Cheng Shiu University Conservation Center... Day 1 and he’s already out on the rooftops “sunbathing”! Sun-bleaching is a technique utilising the age-old method of sunlight to whiten the appearance of paper or fabric. There are different schools of thought in conservation on its potential damage to the object, but it’s a handy technique to have — especially in a tropical climate where there’s plenty of sunshine! ・・・ Repost @nickbaybaybay sun bleaching stained paper on the terrace 日光漂白 • #paper #paperconservation #bleach #bleaching #roof #rooftop #kaohsiung #view #sun
Best language exchange session ever😍 I finally have an assistant, now we just have to learn to speak the same languages: Chinese, English, and Textile Conservation! #textileconservation #studychinese
You too, buddy. (Probably should have made this one post but too late eh).
Dear Agarose Gel, clearly you are working, and I really appreciate how neatly you deliver the cleaning solution without a shadow of a tideline, but if you could work about 380% faster, so as to perhaps make a perceptible difference within the next week, it would be really nice. Thanks! Yours impatiently, Rosie #conservationscience #textilesconservation #wolbersgels
High Speed Rail pre-purchased ticket: juuuust too big to fit inside my wallet. Regular Train ticket: juuuust small enough to ALWAYS get lost inside my wallet, ensuring I must dig around trying to find it. True story: I didn’t even have time to finish writing this post before I lost it, had to unpack my entire handbag, and then found it in my (somewhat antiquated but beloved) BuWu wallet after all! 布物設計 BuWu Design are a gorgeous Taiwanese textile and accessories design company, you can find them in Dihua Street district near my other favourites In Blooom) #taiwandesigner
Silly... but I have been slowly filling my new home and nearly everything I have acquired has been in shades of blue and green. This evening I had just finished washing up (and had binned my terrible washing up gloves) when I noticed how perfectly colour-coordinated even my rubbish is (I can assure you I did not rearrange my recycling for Instagram!). I’ve been listening to @lukehowardmusic’s latest perfect album Open Heart Story and feeling very lucky and charmed, now the pressures of work have subsided somewhat. I am so incredibly fortunate to be living this beautiful life, in a beautiful place, where even my bins match my silly sea-green aesthetic. #rosielovesteal #lucky
Test: Cyclododecane film on canvas (top) and then again just 40 hours after application (bottom). On the right, it’s been applied to one side of the canvas only; on the left, to both the front and back. SUBLIME! This waxy substance sublimates (turns from a solid to a gas) at room temperature, in just a few days, without leaving a trace. My experiments continue tomorrow. PS - CDD/cyclododecane is 環十二烷 in Chinese 🤓 #textileconservation #conservationscience
Quick reference chart for my office wall. I know the basics in Chinese of course (cotton, hemp, silk, wool) but as a textiles conservator in Taiwan, that’s clearly not quite enough to get by —and I’m definitely going to be adding to this as I go! Original infographic by Ayanna Seals. #textileconservation #conservationscience #chinese
I love our portable fume extractor it looks just like a cute baby elephant 🐘 come to keep me company (and keep me healthy 💪) while I experiment with cyclododecane #textileconservation #conservationscience
I love this artwork so much — encountered through @fashioningtheself’s Facebook page (Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom). British-Nigerian artist @shonibarestudio Yinka Shonibare’s work “Girl Ballerina” (2007, life-size mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, and gun, 120 x 50 x 60 cm) is currently shown alongside Degas’ little ballerina at the @metmuseum, a fantastic curatorial opportunity to perform the artist’s vision, and one I wish I could witness in person.
A new week, a new tideline. I was procrastinating and thought I’d trial out a make-up sponge and see if it miraculously got rid of tidelines (😝 just joking) — it doesn’t, but clearly vacuum cleaning alone was not enough to shift the surface dirt! #textileconservation
So this bottle contains acid and acid. Got it. #needsalabelmaker #conservationscience
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