All Discussions Tagged 'work' - crafthaus2024-03-29T09:58:54Zhttps://crafthaus.ning.com/group/canadacancraft/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=work&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFeatured Emerging Artist: Amanda Delacruztag:crafthaus.ning.com,2010-12-09:2104389:Topic:1571632010-12-09T18:45:26.791ZRicksonhttps://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/Rickson
<p>Welcome to another edition of our Proudly Canadian Featured Artists. I'd like to introduce Amanda Delacruz. Her work is quite incredible and she's just started her journey.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="align-center" height="572" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1057972488?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="446"></img></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">Tell us a bit about yourself …<br></br></span></strong></span></span></span></p>
<p>Welcome to another edition of our Proudly Canadian Featured Artists. I'd like to introduce Amanda Delacruz. Her work is quite incredible and she's just started her journey.</p>
<p><img width="750" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1057972488?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt="" width="446" height="572"/></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">Tell us a bit about yourself <br/></span></strong><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">I recently graduated from OCAD University’s Material Art and Design program where I majored in Jewellery and Metalsmithing but dabbled in just about everything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">I like to see my jewellery on people but I also enjoy creating barely wearable, conceptual metalwork.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">My work tends to be inspired by fragmentary, obscure type sentences that I come across in music and books, as well as the idea of growth and change under constraining circumstances.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><br/><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What makes you tick? <br/></strong>I hate when I get work related injuries – especially when I’m in the mood to create or have a looming deadline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">What do you like to do when you are not creating things? <br/></span></strong><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">I like to wind down with a yoga class or read in the park with my puppy.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><br/><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What gets you excited about creating new work? <br/></strong>Whenever I see a work of art/piece of jewellery that I find particularly inspiring, beautiful, or well crafted I find myself itching to get into the studio.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><br/><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How has your education affected your creative process?</span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">In my final year at OCAD University I worked on a yearlong, cohesive body of work. It was very intense and taught me how to reign in my ideas, to get to the core of what I wanted to express.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> I guess they taught me how to find clarity and focus in a sea of ideas. <br/><br/><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have you ever collaborated with another artist?</strong> <br/>Not yet, but I have two people I have plans to collaborate with in the near future.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><br/><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What's your favourite material/process? <br/></strong>Even though I’m mostly a jeweller, I think my favourite process is throwing on the pottery wheel. I find throwing very soothing and rewarding. I love how I can start with a clump of clay and in a few minutes I can have a vessel – an impossibility in jewellery.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">Who has influenced you artistically? <br/></span></strong><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">I really admire the work of Andree Wejsmann, a jeweller who teaches at OCAD though I never had the pleasure of being in her class. When I first saw her work I loved how it was compelling, yet mysterious and vague, which is something that I’ve tried to evoke in my own work ever since.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Show us one of your favourite pieces you've created: <br/></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a class="noborder" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1057972860?profile=original" target="_blank"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1057972860?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></a></span></span></span></span></em></strong></p>
<p><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span></span></em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a class="noborder" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1057972793?profile=original" target="_blank"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1057972793?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></a></span></span></span></span></em></strong></p>
<p><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You try to take the best of me</span></span></span></span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">(choker)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Fabricated, oxidized, sterling silver</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">2009</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">What's your favourite tool and why? <br/></span></strong><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">The hammer - it’s amazing in its versatility. I love how I can compress, move, smooth out, and apply texture all with the same tool.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">Do you have any new projects on the go? <br/></span></strong><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to always have something in the works. At the moment I’m working on several very different kinds of jewellery commissions. But I’m also trying to make new pieces for my production line as well as some new conceptual, wearable art type work to go along with my thesis works on secrets and the walls that accompany their keeping. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><br/><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">List your two favourite books, song/music artists, movies, and websites besides Crafthaus.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;"/><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;"/></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Books:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Music artists:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Metric</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Yeah Yeah Yeahs</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Movies:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Inception</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Websites:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">www.postsecret.blogspot.com</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://thecarrotbox.com/news/index.asp"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">http://thecarrotbox.com/news/index.asp</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">What advice would you give to other artists?</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">I would advise other artists to continuously experiment and explore every and any idea that they may have. It’s too easy to get discouraged in our field, to think that we’re not good enough, or that our work will not be appreciated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Just immerse yourself in your techniques and your ideas, and let them grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Enjoy the process and don’t let your hesitation and anxiety keep you from starting something that could be great.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Thanks Amanda! You obviously have a beautiful attitude. I am sure you'll go far!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">If anyone would like to be a featured artist email me at <a href="mailto:RicksonJewellery@yahoo.ca">RicksonJewellery@yahoo.ca</a>.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: small;">Rickson</span></span></p>
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