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Urban Fabric: Swatch

In the images that compose Urban Fabric: Greige, lay dormant webs of Harris Tweed in the midst of facades of Melbourne’s mid-twentieth century corporate architecture, recalling architecture’s purported textile origins. Through the photographic capturing of the buildings’ likenesses, and removal from their streetscapes and surrounds, their physiognomic features gain prominence and the patternation of their weave becomes distinguishable, summoning the Hebridean check to the light, each, the building type and the tweed renowned for their endless variation and its repetition.

Photographic images, mobile surface renditions, interweave between city and country, between the Outer Hebrides and Melbourne, as we ourselves routinely weave through the city streets we inhabit collecting its traces like threads, its fabric both clothing us and enclosing us, latent images revealing amidst the everyday, the unplumbed richness of place through association and connection.

Presented here as a tailor’s swatch, Urban Fabric: Swatch exists as a maquette for a forthcoming project, the labels’ fields pertain to textiles while their measures are architectural. Shifts between scales, movements between locales, translations between media, variation in application, weaving in between, all the while adorning.  

DETAILS: 7 photographic images printed on cotton rag, boxed and bound (42 x 24.7 x 2.4 cm). With graphic design by Spike Hibberd. Edition of 6. 

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交织都会：样本

在《交织都会：坯绸》的构图中，哈里斯粗花呢织线穿梭于墨尔本二十世纪中的商业建筑外墙之间，编织成这座建筑，呼应了建筑学起源于纺织品的声称。通过摄影捕捉建筑物的相似度，再将其从街景和周围环境中抽离，其具体样貌特征得以突显，其编织图象因而一览无遗，赫布里底群岛特有的格纹织法以及各类建筑物的外墙图案不谋而合。

摄影图像、建筑表面的再现、城乡之间的交织、外赫布里底群岛与墨尔本之间的传统对应现代，经常穿梭于城市街道的我们一丝一丝地卷收着丝线，它的织物包覆着我们，为我们披上衣裳，蕴含意义的潜像透露着城市里的日日夜夜，丝与丝之间无止尽的交织。

在此以裁缝的样本呈现，《交织都会：样本》是未来作品的初样，通过纺织品呈现建筑物的空间感。由规模的转换；地点的位移；媒体的诠释；应用的变化；错综交织润饰而成。

详细说明：7张摄影图像印于棉布上，盒装装订（42 x 24.7 x 2.4厘米）。平面设计：Spike Hibberd。第6版。

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