By Magda, 29 November 2011

The Reef Photos

Photos are now up on a new dedicated Reef project page.

The viewer above shows a full selection of images of the Reef as installed at upArt 2011. Use the button on the bottom right of the viewer above to see the images in full screen. The images are from the Reef photo set on Flickr and can also be viewed there.

By Magda, 10 November 2011

The Reef Animated Gifs

Animated gifs of painted paper “fauna” elements against a textile sculpture background from the Reef project that was installed at upART 2011. There are a couple of Happy Sleepies in there, too.

Loading... Animated gif of a portion of the Reef textile art and painted paper sculptures installation by Happy Sleepy, aka Marc Ngui and Magda Wojtyra.

The left side of the Reef.

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By Magda, 7 September 2011

Polytopia Textile Art in Progress

Here are some photos of arrangements of sewn textile pyramids laid out on my studio floor to test composition before being sewn up into a large three dimentional quilt called Polytopia.

Reef textile art 1

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By Magda, 2 September 2011

Geoms 1 paper sculpture

Geom 1, 2011
Geom 1 painted paper sculpture by Marc Ngui.

This one is about the size of a football.

This Geom was made to be part of a larger installation of textile art and paper sculptures called The Reef, on display 27 to 30 October 2011 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto for the annual upART Contemporary Art Fair.

By Magda, 12 April 2011

Happy Sleepies for Artists Help Japan, Toronto 2011

These two Happy Sleepies are heading to the Artists Help Japan, Toronto 2011 benefit and silent auction.

Happy Sleepies for Artists Help Japan fundraiser, Toronto 2011

Two matching Happy Sleepies for Artists Help Japan fundraiser, Toronto 2011

17 April at 12:00 noon to midnight

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By Magda, 8 January 2010

Digital knit pillows by Chic sin Design

Knit log pillows by Chick sin Design.

Knit log pillows by Chick sin Design.

I just love these knit bolster pillow covers by Hong Kong based Chic sin Design. Originally I found the items in their Etsy shop.

The pillows are in the shape and size of tree logs “chewed by beavers”, and the tree bark and other texture graphics are knitted into the textile in several colours, rather than printed on the surface.

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By Magda, 20 December 2009

Happy Sleepy Suavey in tangerine velvet and chocolate brown leather

The latest addition to the shop is Happy Sleepy Suavey, made from
orange cotton velvet with brown suede “sunglasses” applique. When turned upside down, the sunglasses look like a mustache.

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By Magda, 27 August 2009

Sculptures for The Genomic Basis of Parallel Evolution in Three-spined Sticklebacks

Threespine stickleback pretending to be barracuda.

These guys were commisioned by fellow Flickerite Frenquency to commemorate the end of his PhD studies of this fish species. He studied the evolutionary loss of pelvic spines and was able to switch the relevant genes back on, producing fish with one or both perlvic spines. The thesis title was “The Genomic Basis of Parallel Evolution in Three-spined Sticklebacks”.

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