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Just a quick post to let you know we've re-launched our <a href="http://maricormaricar.com/" target="_blank">website</a> for 2015. We've cleaned out the site so some of the quirks of the old are fixed and it should be a lot easier to find projects.<br />
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There is an Archive section for our older projects. Later this week we'll be launching the dedicated shop for our one-off hand embroideries and textile works that available for sale. Our <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MaricorMaricar" target="_blank">Etsy</a> shop will still be the place to visit for poster and print purchases.<br />
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Part of the website launch is also a blog refresh so this will be the last post on this site. We will be leaving this blog up so the old posts can still be accessed. Thank you for the support over the years, Maricor and I hope you come visit the <a href="http://maricormaricar.com/blog/" target="_blank">new blog</a> in the future. We'll be using it for more process and behind the scenes insights into what inspires our work. We're just getting the next post ready which will be about the process behind making two of our most recent private commissions, "Love" and another of our painting with thread abstracts.<br />
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<br />MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-42293943856971621462015-02-02T11:37:00.000+11:002015-02-02T11:37:44.247+11:00Smart Made Simple for Weight WatchersLate last year we worked with our amazing producers at In the Thicket to craft 8 spots for Weight Watchers and their creative team at BMF.<br />
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For the campaign we combined a mixture of stop motion and live action using a very stylised and graphic approach to the props and styling. A few of the spots are now live with the rest rolling out through the year.<br />
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<br />MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-9564948128470614362014-12-16T21:44:00.000+11:002014-12-16T21:44:31.728+11:00New embroideries and prints availableWe have some new embroideries up on our etsy shop right now, as well as limited editions of a few of our favourite pieces.
There are 20 x A3 giclee prints of "Shut Up I'm Dreaming" and "Don't Worry Baby" as well as 10 x A3 giclee prints of "Eye on the Coconut". Details are all on the etsy <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/maricormaricar" target="_blank">shop</a>.<br />
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The new embroideries we have available are a new "E" in our sweater letter range, a new abstract geo #4 and the original embroidery of "Eye on the Coconut".
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We embroidered the opening page graphic for the Washington Post's Food section last Wednesday.<br />
I thought it would be nice to share some of the process from pencil sketch through to digital colour mock up and final embroidery.<br />
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Today my little one and I spent a nice day playing in the garden, baking and eating. Although I am itching to get back into embroidery. Hopefully sewing up some small pieces in time to pop onto our shop ahead of Christmas - some small geo abstracts and new sweater letters.<br />
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Our daily routine now includes going into the garden to admire the aquilegia that's finally in bloom (trying to stop Ava from plucking all the flowers) and most important of all, checking on our strawberry plants. Trying to harvest the tiny alpine strawberries before the bugs get to them. We also watered the sprawling raspberry tangle that's beginning to fruit. I left it to go wild meaning to prune back a few canes but when I eventually got around to doing it I discovered quite a few canes were in bud. I'm not entirely sure how to take care of this plant and i'm not even sure what type of raspberry it since I purchased it at a local nursery. But I think it might be the floricane type since some of the old canes are fruiting again but then again some new canes are fruiting so it's all very confusing!<br />
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I hope I can keep it thriving. We all love raspberries at home and it would be amazing to eat our own instead of the often lack lustre tasting ones from the store. We also made some time for blowing bubbles and baking some muffins. This will be the last time we use frozen blueberries though, they are completely tasteless. With a drizzle of maple syrup and butter they're not too bad though!MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-8950499171905041202014-10-20T08:30:00.000+11:002014-10-20T13:06:53.878+11:00HOOPLA group show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey all!
We have a group show coming up curated by <a href="http://hemadeshemade.com/hoopla-oct-22-nov-15/" target="_blank">He Made She Made</a> at their Sydney gallery. Opening night is next Wednesday night.
October 22nd / 18.00 - 21.00 He Made She Made 70 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst.<br />
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Lots of amazing people in the show - Kitiya Palaskas, Adame France, Jordan Clarke, Izziyana Suhaimi, Province, Maria Aparicio Puentes, and Victor Espinoza Aparicio. The hoops were custom made by HMSH and are a whopping 80x80cm.
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We based our work on a piece of lyric by Sunset Rubdown. It's another one of our painting with thread pieces but a bit more fractured and loose. We hope you can make it down if you're based in Sydney!
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We also answered some questions about our embroidery process for Net Magazine over at the Creativ Bloq <a href="http://www.creativebloq.com/netmag/secrets-behind-net-mags-embroidered-wordpress-cover-91412989">website</a>.<br />
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We usually have a heap of tangled orphaned threads after each embroidery project. Which we collect into empty jars to use later for little embroidered sketches/doodles and experiments. These are a couple of thank you embroideries we created using some of these left over threads. Little notes to say thank you to some kind hearted people that have supported us along the way.
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My lithops seedlings from Dec 13 are finally going through their first regeneration. I didn't use the right soil substrate and generally haven't taken the greatest care of them. They've suffered a few unplanned repottings due to being knocked over thanks to my clumsy positioning of them. But i'm glad to see a few robust looking ones amongst them and it's great to see some of their true colours emerging with the new leaves. The seeds were a mixed lot so it will be interesting trying to identify them! </div>
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Our older lithops are also going through their usual springtime regeneration. Including this Alien lookalike and a pseudotruncatella that's splitting into a double head. Also a cacti and haworthia aristata in different stages of flowering. </div>
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MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-85436218255567060282014-09-26T17:36:00.000+10:002014-09-26T17:36:27.535+10:00Material Edge at Wangaratta Art GalleryWe're very proud to be part of an exhibition on now at the Wangaratta Art Gallery (Vic, Australia) that has been curated by the wonderful Sally Huguenin. Sally has brought together artists/designers working in contemporary textiles across varying fields such as the visual arts, fashion and graphic design.<br />
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"The exhibition includes work as diverse as Douglas McManus’ laser-engraved textiles with 3d printing; Kathy Temin’s renowned synthetic fur landscapes; and an interactive pompom installation space by Australia’s queen of craft, Pip Lincolne. There will also be four incredibly intricate outfits by Sydney fashion designers Romance Was Born, including a dress famously worn by Cate Blanchett that is on loan from the Powerhouse Museum; knitted self-portraits and photographic imagery by Melbourne-based contemporary artist Kate Just; and colourfully embroidered advertising and typography by twin sisters and graphic designers, Maricor/Maricar."<br />
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The exhibition runs until the 19th October. More details can be found on the gallery <a href="http://www.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/recreation-leisure/art-gallery/exhibitions/exhibitions.asp" target="_blank">website</a> and the flyer is below.<br />
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The work we have on display is primarily our commercial work - showing how embroidery is being used by clients in publishing and advertising. We also included some of our personal textile pieces that were created after our time in London ("Maps" wallhangings) as well as two new pieces created specifically for Material Edge. "Don't Worry Baby" hand embroidered lettering and a new patchwork wall hanging, "Neue Folk".<br />
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<br />MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-43543804441924306372014-08-28T16:42:00.000+10:002014-08-28T16:43:19.135+10:00Unexpected Collaborations: Robocrop processThis week's post is about the <a href="https://vimeo.com/101375931">Robocrop video</a> and the process behind making it. It was quite a different approach to Sweetfighter with the entire video this time shot in camera. We used lighting techniques and wired props to tell the story of an agricultural / robotics collaboration. Our concept was to present a futuristic vision of nature through the symbiotic relationship between science research and nature. The idea was to use plants but have them glow, Avatar like and also be wired electronically to sway as if swaying in the wind.<br />
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Having proposed all this in our storyboards we then had to figure out how to build it so began nightly tests using fluorescent fluid to make the flowers and plants glow. After finding some helpful tutorials online we settled on using two recipes. One based on highlighter fluid and the second on tonic water. The difference between the two was the colour of the glow they created. Highlighter fluid created a more toxic looking yellow glow while tonic water produces a more softer blue glow.<br />
Even the clean up produced some interesting specimens. The close up of the tissue looks almost cosmic.</div>
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We also tried different methods for getting the plants to soak up the fluid, A – through the cut stems which took a bit longer to take affect and is less effective, B – soaking the flower blooms directly in the fluid. Much more vibrant and the effect can be seen within hours. Just watch out that the blooms don't start to disintegrate! The variegated devil's ivy was soaked through the stem in highlighter fluid for about a week and you can see the glow start to spread through the veins in the leaves. It was really interesting doing these experiments. We'd love to do another project using similar techniques. Not that plants aren't already naturally beautiful but it's amazing how they can be transformed through a relatively lo-fi technique. Down below you can see some of our glow tests on kale, fox glove and the garlic flowers.<br />
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Although for glowing purposes white and pale pink flowers worked the best we had to make sure the plants we used were edible. Luckily were able to source some pretty interesting plants at the Eveleigh growers market as well as the Chinatown markets where we scored garlic flowers which we'd never heard of and the enoki which looked amazing under the blacklight.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Meanwhile my partner luckily has started to tinker in electronic gadgetry so offered to build the contraption needed to wire the plants. He used an arduino board with a manual trigger, some of the early tests show a bit of experimentation with how to get the wires hooked up to the plants elegantly. We initially used metal collars which gave a nice motion but looked a little too steampunk. In the end we wrapped the wires directly onto the stems and crossed our fingers the force wouldn't snap them. </span></div>
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Some shots below on set of the plant set ups in 'daylight' and under the blacklight. The same plants were used for both sets. One of the advantages of using the tonic water to make the plants glow is that it's clear in daylight (unlike the highlighter fluid that gives off a faint yellow tinge).<br />
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The end product (<a href="https://vimeo.com/101375930" target="_blank">view video here</a>) is a series of carefully balanced sets/still lives incorporating fruit, vegetables, sugar and medical paraphernalia. We wanted to continue on the theme of unique insights coming from unexpected collaborations by also including a visual play at the end of the video that would hopefully surprise the viewer and have them question what they were viewing. With this video the mirrored reflection reveals itself to be a whole different world - another nod to gameplay and virtual realities.<br />
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We thought it would be nice to share the process behind making these videos as we always enjoy seeing the behind the scenes of other animations and the steps in getting to the final product. Also we had a lot of fun with this project so it's nice to have a record of how it went! For this post i'll focus on Sweetfighter and follow up with Robocrop.<br />
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Below are some of the very first storyboard frames created for the pitch. Early on in the pitch process we decided that a mixture of stop motion and live action would be the best way to handle the production as timings were tight. I think in all we had 3 weeks for pre production and shoot (3 days) so a full stop motion production would have been impossible.<br />
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It was important that we use as many found 'ordinary' objects as possible but have them behave in unconventional ways e.g. the glowing mechanised plants, bouncing ice creams. Not just thinking laterally but behaving laterally too so to speak. So it wasn't going to be a case of fabricating our props from materials like paper/clay etc like we had done in the past. Initially we thought this would make pre-production simpler. As long as we could source the objects we were fine. But after thinking through the sets (3 alone for the Sweetfighter) we realised how wrong we were. We were going to be dealing with a lot of fresh fruit that needed to be attached together without spilling their guts onto the set, make semi-solid jelly that could be used structurally and figure out how to make ice-cream that wouldn't melt on set and could be manipulated for stop motion.<br />
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Luckily the internet taught us how to make fake ice-cream (frosting and a lot of icing sugar) and we had access to Barnes nearby and found jellywax. What turned out to be the trickiest set to make was the first scene and the fruit molecule. We had about three goes creating the sculpture, the first to test the technique of connecting the parts, the second on set for the pre-production shoot to test the rotating base and then on the actual day we had to make it again from scratch. Timing was important so we had a lot of back up fruit raided from the all the supermarkets and green grocers in my neighbourhood plus Paddy's markets. After a near meltdown at one point when I couldn't find a perfectly round and green melon I went upstairs to the supermarket and found the mother lode of perfectly sized round melons. We came home with about 5 and used 0 in the end.<br />
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The rigging for the props was one major hurdle especially with the fruit. We thought gluing might work which shows what complete DIY non handypeople we are, but luckily had skewers on hand to spike them together. With clever rigging designed by Mel Pragassen for the spinning hoop (disco ball) and turntable we were able to make the first scene live action.<br />
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The next two set ups were a mix of stop motion plates comped together and a bit of live action to capture the exploding balls. With a lot of elements made to look like they are floating in the air rigging turned out to be a bit of a headache! Charlie, Sam and Maricor did a great job on the rig removal. The shaky behind the scenes video of the spinning molecule above and the photo below shows how much had to be cleaned up for the finished video.<br />
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So that's how we made Sweetfighter, next up will be Robocrop!<br />
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Working with co-director Mel Pragassen, we pitched a series of videos that would be a hybrid of stop motion and live action. The treatment we pitched back to The Monkeys made use of unexpected materials and objects such as bouncing ice-creams, fruit molecules, buttons and mechanised plants to visualise the innovative and progressive nature of the centre which brings together experts from wide ranging fields.<br />
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We were stoked to win the pitch and the following three videos are the product of 3 long weeks of pre-production, testing , a 3 day shoot and post. The three stories told are Universal Similarities (biologists working with astrophysicists dir. Mel Pragassen), Sweetfighter (diabetes experts working with gaming programmers dir. Maricor/Maricar) and Robocrop (farmers working with robotics experts dir. Maricor/Maricar).<br />
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We also worked on the design and build of the props for the two videos. Unlike our previous stop motion animations for this project we worked with mostly 'real' items such as fresh fruit and flowers which was a new challenge but thoroughly enjoyable. In the next few posts we'll share some of the process we went through making the props and how the videos were developed.<br />
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We were asked to create some custom lettering for Vogue Japan which was pretty bloody exciting. Huge thanks to our agents at Building Tokyo and Handsome Frank for the project. And in other magazine related work we embroidered lettering for the cover of French magazine Paulette and their Romantique issue. The mood board we were given was lace, white and Virgin Suicides. It was tricky knowing the type would appear against a very light airy image and the first time we've had to composite our embroidery onto a photographic image but it turned out well I think.<br />
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MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-28162906818634427682014-05-11T23:58:00.000+10:002014-05-11T23:58:25.925+10:00EasterSorry a bit of a belated Easter post. Easter has come and gone but we still have chocolate eggs in the fridge so it's not too late I reckon.<br />
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This year Ava was old enough for her first egg hunt and we wanted to do something special so we decorated some eggs that we'll be able to keep for future egg hunts. Through instagram I discovered some wonderful blank wooden eggs that are also hollow which will be perfect for hiding extra treasures when Ava's a little older. Last time I attempted painting decorations (the Christmas wreath) I got a bit caught up figuring out patterns and designs so this time around I tried to be loose. Also couldn't leave out some animal heads for Ava who loves copying their different noises. I couldn't have all the fun so we also some together. Getting the paints off her after that was really hard!</div>
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Speaking of round things, Ava's been in wonderland with house full of giant sized balls and boxes for a project Maricor has been working on with friends of ours. They're for a series of concerts later this year for Justine Clarke's 'I Am A ... Band' Tour. Which Maricor has also done the poster artwork for. If you follow our instagram you'll see some more of the process pics maybe a few of us going a bit kookoo after some long nights. PS it looks freakishly convincing but that isn't Ava under that ball just some of her clothes with stuffing.</div>
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MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-44676060243464519722014-04-29T16:46:00.000+10:002014-04-29T16:46:22.893+10:00DC x PMU shirt collabIt's Pick Me Up time again for you lucky folks in London. We took part last year as one of their Selects and are taking part again this time through the DC x PMU shirt collaboration. They've asked a hugely talented line up of artists to create graphics, so we're pretty humbled to be included. Our shirt graphic is based on the hand embroidered lettering below.<br />
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The shirts launched exclusively at the festival and will be available for purchase there before being sold in participating stores. The festival runs until the 5th of May, info can be found on their <a href="http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/pick-me-up-2014" target="_blank">website</a>. Our agents <a href="http://www.handsomefrank.com/" target="_blank">Handsome Frank</a> are also returning with their pop up gallery/shop selling artwork and running workshops. We've created a new embroidery for Eye on the Coconut, which is available to purchase as an A3 giclee poster.<br />
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<br />MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-40208145031740545502014-04-17T00:33:00.000+10:002014-04-17T00:33:11.679+10:00HomeIt's no secret we're plant nerds. We've come to it relatively recently which may explain why we're a bit obsessive about it at the moment. Lithops, tillandsias, cacti and succulents and now calatheas have invaded and steadily taken over every available surface inside and out. We had a mini disaster the other week when my precious lithops seedling that I had patiently been growing for 4 months tipped onto the floor. I tried to be as delicate as possible when I re-potted them but there have been many casualties already. I did manage to take some nice photos though of the tiny babies. You can see most are only about the size of a pinhead after 4 months.<br />
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If only I had as much interest in my vegetable garden!<br />
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<br />MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-13524355443149036602014-03-28T13:42:00.000+11:002014-03-28T13:42:25.759+11:00RecentlyHello we cropped up onto a few press recently and wanted to say a huge thank you to Embroidery Magazine in the UK, French magazine <a href="http://etapes.com/au-fil-des-couleurs" target="_blank">étapes </a>and Habitus magazine for including and sharing our work with their readers.<br />
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You can read a short interview on the <a href="http://www.habitusliving.com/connect/weaving-magic" target="_blank">Habitus blog</a> and some photos of our workspace. We talked to Jo Hall at Embroidery magazine which is published by the Embroiderers' Guild about our process and how we got started in embroidery. You can see some of the spreads below. It was a real pleasure talking with Jo, thank you for such a great feature!<br />
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<br />MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-87134835272917181702014-03-04T18:20:00.001+11:002014-03-04T18:20:14.248+11:00Studio visit - Leonor BarreiroAbout a month ago we had a lovely visit from Leonor Barreiro, a fellow embroidered from Argentina. This was actually her second visit to our studio. Leonor was in Australia travelling and visiting family for a few months and stopped by our studio before Christmas for a quick hello and chat over tea and cake. But this second time around we had organised to have a sewing afternoon. It's something we dearly miss, having the banter of many people in the studio. Maricor and I are so used to each other's company after a lifetime that we can go hours without saying anything. Especially if there's a deadline to hit.<br />
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Leonor's work is amazing. <a href="http://www.yosoyele.com.ar/?section=bordado">http://www.yosoyele.com.ar/?section=bordado</a> It's intricate and delicate and it was a real pleasure to see it up close. She was working on a piece that I had earlier seen a progress photo online (the black background piece) but it was really amazing seeing the physical piece. I thought our stitches were tiny but hers are on another level!<br />
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Leonor also told us about the sewing circle she works with back home in Argentina, <a href="http://ritasmirna.blogspot.com.au/">Rita Smirna</a>. The group grew organically from the students she learnt with while doing embroidery workshops. They have a great blog at <a href="http://ritasmirna.blogspot.com.au/">http://ritasmirna.blogspot.com.au/</a>, which unfortunately doesn't look like it has been updated lately. But their past posts are worth looking at to get a feel of the collaborative works they create.<br />
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Leonor describes how the group will often work on one piece together. Each member adding their own embroidery onto what has been stitched before, similar to a exquisite corpse artwork.
We were very lucky to take part in our own small sewing circle with Leonor. She explained the 'rules' they usually use to help having a "blank canvas" less daunting. They collectively decide on a colour palette as well as a handful of stitch styles to keep a level of continuity across the embroideries.<br />
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The photos below show you what we ended up with. It's interesting to see that while we all worked with the same colours each work is quite distinct and has a totally different tone.
It was really enjoyable having this freedom to experiment, to let our needles meander and let something grow without a plan or design. It's very different to how we have to work commercially where there isn't a lot of time to experiment. But it's a catch22. Experimentation keeps us motivated and open to new inspirations and ideas, which we'll often feed back into our commercial work so we need to remember every now and then to free ourselves and start with an empty square of cloth.<br />
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PS. Leonor also very kindly gifted us some sewing supplies she sells through her line <a href="http://www.yosoyele.com.ar/?section=productos" target="_blank">'ele'</a>. It has the most lovely vintage thread that i've now become obsessed with sourcing online. They're called cordonnet and if anyone knows where to find these we'd really appreciate your help!
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MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-75459813685659907582014-02-04T16:47:00.000+11:002014-02-04T16:47:02.731+11:00Meanjin - process<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47ZZ2IRv5Rd8cx3j0eM692j1t8qC005AnhE_t17MM3FKZIyQbfC9udWhYpp_DtA1q1Yzjan51B4j2RHRtoy6o0jUsMJ_36qoHmq4oCgxIsyYrWem7fKncxohatNLRCyQcueA78ofgLsI/s1600/MM_Meanjin_front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47ZZ2IRv5Rd8cx3j0eM692j1t8qC005AnhE_t17MM3FKZIyQbfC9udWhYpp_DtA1q1Yzjan51B4j2RHRtoy6o0jUsMJ_36qoHmq4oCgxIsyYrWem7fKncxohatNLRCyQcueA78ofgLsI/s1600/MM_Meanjin_front.jpg" /></a></div>
The Meanjin cover we embroidered last year was easily one of our most enjoyable commissions to date. We were able to explore our growing plant nerd-dom plus reimagine the traditional embroidery motif of florals. When Zora the editor of Meanjin first contacted us about working on this issue, the brief was both simple and complex. This issue was unofficially a women’s issue with content provided by female writers. Our brief was to use our embroidery to play on the idea of “women’s work” but other than that the Zora was happy for us to propose anything that fit within that broad scope. The challenge was to avoid clichés and not be superficial in our message.<br />
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We presented a few ideas, one of which was to subvert traditional motifs and in place of pretty daisies and roses, embroider fleshy, gruesome plants (or Frankenflowers as we grew to call them while sewing). <br />
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We've posted some of our process below. Firstly some rough initial sketches we presented with our first round concept. We didn't sketch a layout for this stage but provided a written treatment outlining our idea along with some support imagery showing how the plants could look. We proposed toothy flowers as well as scrotum buds, and amazingly got the go ahead on everything.<br />
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After the concept got the go ahead we started collecting some reference material for the Frankenflwoers. As you can imagine we had a lot of fun researching weird, unusual and gross looking plants. The last preview we sent to the client was a coloured tight sketch which you can compare to the finished piece. Since embroidery is so time consuming changes after the final coloured sketch is approved is rare and usually requires some extra time for the delivery schedule. The coloured tight sketch we present to clients shows them exactly how the embroidery will look so that they'll be comfortable giving a final go ahead. It shows composition and colour but not texture which is something we can build organically as we embroider. For instance we introduced a lot more dimensional stitching techniques in this project to give extra movement and depth to the flowers. We padded out the stitching to create a fat stem for the lower hero flower and added hairlike red fringes on the conophytum inspired globular flowers. We also loosened some of stitching and instead of completely filling in shapes showed some of the black background fabric to imitate shading.<br />
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We’re often asked how our embroidery sits within contemporary illustration and we usually struggle to eloquently answer this. I’m really happy we were able to create this piece because it represents what we try to do with our work. Embroidery is an age old medium but like any other technique or mark making medium - like painting or drawing - it can evolve. We try to add a different perspective to the craft with our work and see how much of its tactility we can exploit.
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MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-65528991990856419422014-01-31T10:45:00.000+11:002014-01-31T10:45:28.275+11:00Website updatesHello! Hope you all had a great holiday break. We've had a sluggish start to the year in the studio trying to get psyched up for 2014. It's just so hard to focus when the house heats up like an oven and the beach beckons!<br />
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We're trying to get through the last bits on our 2013 to do lists and can finally cross off 'update our website' which sadly hadn't been shown much attention since this time last year. There are too many projects to fit on the homepage. But if you visit the Tactiles page you'll be able to see all the new projects <a href="http://www.maricormaricar.com/">www.maricormaricar.com</a>.<br />
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We enjoyed working on some pretty fun and challenging projects last year and it was particularly exciting for us to try some new techniques such as goldwork, patchworking and paper embroidery. Hopefully you enjoy the new work as well!<br />
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We've also had a bit of clear out in the studio. Well mainly just shuffled one pile of clutter to another corner of the table... but we have managed to go through our back catalogue of embroidered work and have a few old and newish ones up for sale on our <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/maricormaricar" target="_blank">etsy shop</a>.<br />
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I've got some summer photos to post up as well as some process behind our Menajin cover. Will hopefully have those up on the blog next week.<br />
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The photos above show the Christmas lettering and graphics we created for Shinsegae department store in South Korea and their holiday campaign. We documented our process which was then edited into a behind the scenes making of video. Photos courtesy of the Shinsegae design team.<br /><br />
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MaricorMaricarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753204770504031630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531075655208294063.post-79643070883425449532013-11-26T14:51:00.001+11:002013-11-26T15:00:40.287+11:00Desktop Magazine "Neue Folk"The November issue of <a href="http://desktopmag.com.au/" target="_blank">Desktop</a> magazine is out now and includes a feature on us as well as a special embossed front cover of one of our embroideries commissioned for the issue. The issue is called Neue Folk and looks at traditional skills and techniques used by designers today. We're very honoured to be included in the issue and share pages with some of our favourite artisan designers such as <a href="http://some-wow.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Will Edmonds</a> and <a href="http://hannahwaldron.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hannah Waldron</a>.<br />
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The cover went through a couple of versions and we must thank Bonnie Abbott for her input who pushed us to experiment more with the analogue glitch effect you see on the front cover. We played around with a similar illustration style for our recent Maps exhibition collateral but with this graphic we really wanted to create a glitch effect with the overlapping patterns and intersecting threads. We've colour mixed in our fabric based embroideries in the past but it was a real challenge achieving a similar effect on paper. Maricor worked on a few tests and luckily came up with a solution that we were both excited with. The bottom three images are detail shots of the physical embroideries showing some of the overlapping stitches we used to create the colour mixing.<br />
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The magazine also features an embroidered masthead and shows the front and back of the designs. The issue is available now at newstands/bookstores. Thank you also to Heath Killen, Desktop Magazine's outgoing editor who originally commissioned us.<br />
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