Jonathon McBurnie

A productive and inspiring chat yesterday with Jonathon McBurnie, and a powerful takeaway message.

A print a day

Print on paper using ink and solvent. 

120 x 120 mm

Process

Playing with print/stencil options.

on canvas with tissue and acrylic base

Wunderkammer

Art as personal archive.

Print (ink and acrylic on paper) with collage, photographed.

photograph

photograph

Wunderkammer

Cabinets of curiosities, also known as ‘wonder rooms’, were small collections of extraordinary objects which, like today’s museums, attempted to categorise and tell stories about the wonders and oddities of the natural world.
British Library

Studio buddies

A print a day

Ink and spray acrylic on tissue paper.

Rabbit holes: Bottles

Glass containers are engineered along very specific design principles.  Container size, orifice diameter, neck length, and other attributes as well as the rations between such morphological characteristics are determined largely by such basic principles as frequency of access, amount of contents removed with each access, and the type of content (bulk solid, liquid, semi-liquid, etc.). 

Reher, Charles A. and Wedel, Dale L. (1994) Recovering Cultural Data from the Analysis of Early Historic Glass Containers Manual for the Workshop on Analysis of Diagnostic Glass, Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists Symposium on Historical Archaeology Northern Colorado, University Greeley, Colorado, March 12–13, 1994.

from Society of Historical Archeology