The Kiss

Mixed media on beech wood (188cmX44cm), using carving, sculpture, drawing, painting (pastels) and collage with paper.

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Peça em madeira, técnica mista (188cmX44cm) - entalhe, escultura, desenho, pintura (pastel seco) e colagem com papel.

"SKIP-ART III - Song Cycle" - an instalation in the bikeshed of The Daintree Building, Dublin

To know more than you can see, check the history of this work in the previous posts.
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Para saber mais do que pode ver, cheque o histórico deste trabalho nas postagens anteriores.

The Daintree Building - bikeshed instalation - bike pieces - 7th set of panels

It's a bikeshed, after all - let's cycle!
Spokes, chains, sprockets, geer wheels and chopped up bikes, all on the colours of Daintree paper. The end brings us back to the beginning - "song cycle".
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Afinal, é um estacionamento de bicicletas - pedalemos!
Raios, correntes, catracas, coroas e pedaços de bicicletas, tudo sobre as cores dos papéis da Daintree. O fim nos traz de volta ao começo - "song cycle".

The Daintree Building - bikeshed instalation - music - 6th set of panels

Music is an universal and timeless medium of expression. Listen to it. Make it. Dance to it. This set of panels is composed of vinyls and cds, music sheets, a complete piano keyboard, fabric and clothes.
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Música é uma forma de expressão universal e atemporal. Ouça. Faça. Dance. Este conjunto de painéis foi composto de LPs e cds, partituras, um teclado de piano completo, tecidos e roupas.

The Daintree Building - bikeshed instalation - playtime - 5th set of panels

Having children around is a good way of remembering how to play and genuinely laugh! This set uses pieces of jig-saw puzzles (it was great fun to create a new way to put them together!), lots of little things that only a child would value, lids from bottles and jars, drawings and paintings, pencils and toys. _____________________________________________________________ Brincar. Ter criança por perto é um bom jeito de fazer a gente se lembrar do que é brincadeira e como rir de verdade! Neste conjunto foram usadas peças de quebra-cabeças (foi super-divertido criar um jeito novo de "encaixá-las"!), muitas pequenas coisas a que só criança dá valor, tampas de garrafas e de vidros de conserva, desenhos e pinturas, lápis e brinquedos.

The Daintree Building - bikeshed instalation - home and away - 4th set of panels

Lots of different grounds we step on. Enjoying home after having seen the world. This set uses woodchips, wood shavings, postcards, maps, sandals, and homey things - a brazilian rug (made out of banana tree), wooden table-legs, lace, a cushion, a pair of slippers, biscuit tins, tin saucers, a vegetable wooden box. And, always, paper. _____________________________________________________________ Tantos chãos a gente pisa! Descansar em casa depois de ter visto o mundo. Este conjunto foi feito de pedaços de lenha, raspas de madeira, cartões postais, mapas, sandálias e coisinhas de casa - um tapete basileiro (de bananeira), pernas de mesa, renda, almofada, chinelos, latas de biscoito, pirezinhos metálicos, uma caixa de vegetais. E, sempre, papel.

The Daintree Building - bikeshed instalation - in the kitchen - 3rd set of panels

A celebration of the sense of taste! There's no place like our own kitchen... There's no taste like mammy's cooking... There's nothing like eating slowly and together... In this set you see corks, dishes and pots in pieces, old family photographs, cutlery, broken glass, measuring spoons. And Daintree's left-overs and other papers, always giving life, texture and colour to the background. _____________________________________________________________ Uma celebração ao paladar! Nada como a cozinha da gente... Nada como a comida da mamãe... Nada como comer devagar e bem acompanhado... Neste conjunto você vê rolhas, cacos de louça e outras cerâmicas, fotos antigas de família (olha a minha mãe e o meu pai aí, gente!), talheres, vidro quebrado, medidores de leite em pó. E sempre os restos da Daintree e outros papéis dando vida, textura e cor ao fundo.

The Daintree Building - bikeshed instalation - paper - 2nd set of panels

Paper is the basic material for this set of panels - old magazines and newspapers, books, patterns for sewing, left-overs from Daintree, plus buttons and letterpress trays.
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O material básico neste conjunto de painéis é o papel - revistas e jornais antigos, livros, encartes com moldes de costura, restos do papel da Daintree, e ainda botões e bandejas de tipos móveis de impressão.

The Daintree Building - bikeshed instalation - metal - 1st set of panels

This first set uses mainly metal - circuit boards, copper pipes, metal shavings, coins, lead from the base of lampstands, washers, chains, curtain rings, keys, candle holders and nails. The colours in the background are provided by the beautiful left-overs of Daintree's paper. _____________________________________________________________ Neste primeiro conjunto foi usado o metal como principal material - placas de circuito, canos de cobre, raspas de metal, moedas, chumbo da base de luminárias, porcas, correntes, argolas de cortina, chaves, base de velas e pregos. As cores de fundo são proporcionadas pelo belo lixo de papel da Daintree.

bikeshed in The Daintree building

"The Daintree Building is one of a kind. Inspired by the delightful, fertile abundance of trees, or the rainforest in Australia after which it is named, Daintree meets some of its own energy, material, food and water needs and is a small step towarda more restorative, sustainable and healthful built environment. Daintree Paper commissioned the project in 1999. We wanted an ‘oasis in the city’- a beautiful place to work and live in- that would smell of baking and fresh coffee. Now complete, the project was awarded the Building Design Award in the 2005 Sustainable Energy Awards and has been exhibited in The Royal Institute of Architects 2006 Awards. As well as the fabulous Cake Café, Daintree has 7 privately owned apartments, office space for Solearth Ecological Architecture (the building’s designers) and our shop, warehouse and offices." For more information, see http://www.daintree.ie/ .
Daintree was designed by Solearth Ecological Architecture (with Adrian Joyce Architects). Engineering was by Buro Happold. Gardiner and Theobald were quantity surveyors. The contractor was Cunnane and Donaghey. Construction commenced in August 2004 and was practically completed in November 2005.

the counter in Daintree Wedding Stationery Shop...

the 2001 diary