Apaixonada por Marbling…<3

“Despite their prior popularity and extensive employment, marbled papers and the marbler’s craft have remained the most obscure, and least investigated and understood, of all aspects of book arts. [..] For about two and a half centuries after its introduction into Europe about the year 1600, marbling was one of the chief means available for producing the colored papers used in bookbinding and other decorative work. It performed a similarly important role in the day-to-day life of the Near East, where the art was brought to perfection even earlier and used in conjunction with Islamic bookbinding, calligraphy, iconography, fine arts, and even administrative uses. In both the East and the West, large numbers and many generations of people spent their working lives in the production of marbled papers needed for these various purposes.” [via]

Sabe aqueles envelopes de banco recheados de códigos de segurança? O arquiteto e artista alemão J. Mayer coleta todos para desenvolver estas estampas de números aplicadas em diferentes ambientes, desde gigante – numa galeria como a Berlinische Galerie – à tecidos termo-sensíveis. Vale conferir todo o vasto e incrível portfólio dele!

“In addition to patterns, which adorn many of your buildings, you seem to love surfaces in general. Tell me about your work that records the surface temperature of the people using it.

I really like sensorial aspects of buildings, so for my pieces “Housewarming” or “Heat Seat” [a chair that registers and shows the heat stamp of the sitter] and “Lie” [bed sheets that register the heat of the sleeper by changing color] I wanted to show a temperature landscape of the body. Of course, how the materials react have to do with how hot the person is, but what I like is that the surface of this material takes a record of a person, and then slowly it fades away.” via