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This is the main tumblog of Silvie Kilgallon. I'm a conceptual artist and my work is largely influenced by my academic interests in classics, ancient history, translation, and philosophy of language. This blog details conceptual, casual and personal projects on which I am currently working. To see the Stitched Iliad project, please check out the Stitched Iliad blog below.

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12/36. One Third Done. It's Really Nice To Have A Project That Doesn't Take Months/years To Complete.

12/36. One Third Done. It's Really Nice To Have A Project That Doesn't Take Months/years To Complete.
12/36. One Third Done. It's Really Nice To Have A Project That Doesn't Take Months/years To Complete.
12/36. One Third Done. It's Really Nice To Have A Project That Doesn't Take Months/years To Complete.

12/36. One third done. It's really nice to have a project that doesn't take months/years to complete.

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12 years ago
Hopefully A Present For Someone. Started Yesterday. So Far, We Have French Knots, Woven Wheels (whipped

Hopefully a present for someone. Started yesterday. So far, we have French knots, woven wheels (whipped and unwhipped) bullion knots, cast on stitch, button hole wheel, heavy chain, and stem stitch.


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12 years ago
This Is The Beginning Of An Art Project Called 'Mycenae'. At The End Of The Mycenaean Era, When The Palaces

This is the beginning of an art project called 'Mycenae'. At the end of the Mycenaean era, when the palaces burned to the ground, the permanent records of the people - written in leather - were burned along with everything else. But their temporary records, written in recyclable clay, we're fired in the heat and thus preserved by the same act that destroyed everything else. Life loves irony.

The project here is to take temporary communications (or things we perceive as temporary) - email exchanges, instant message conversations, text exchanges, even snail spam mail - things we don't mean to preserve, and imprint them on porcelain tablets, firing and preserving them.

I'll admit one tablet by itself really doesn't look all that impressive. This is a project which - if it works at all - will work because of the scale. Imagine hundreds of those tablets covering a whole wall, each one containing incidentally preserved fragments of peoples' lives.


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12 years ago

Each code is an individual letter of the alphabet; so far it's letters A - L.

12/36. One Third Done. Its Really Nice To Have A Project That Doesnt Take Months/years To Complete.
12/36. One Third Done. Its Really Nice To Have A Project That Doesnt Take Months/years To Complete.
12/36. One Third Done. Its Really Nice To Have A Project That Doesnt Take Months/years To Complete.

12/36. One third done. It’s really nice to have a project that doesn’t take months/years to complete.

12 years ago
A-H (8/36) They All Scan. Qrafter Is The Best Free IPhone App I've Found For Scanning QR Codes. I Was
A-H (8/36) They All Scan. Qrafter Is The Best Free IPhone App I've Found For Scanning QR Codes. I Was
A-H (8/36) They All Scan. Qrafter Is The Best Free IPhone App I've Found For Scanning QR Codes. I Was
A-H (8/36) They All Scan. Qrafter Is The Best Free IPhone App I've Found For Scanning QR Codes. I Was
A-H (8/36) They All Scan. Qrafter Is The Best Free IPhone App I've Found For Scanning QR Codes. I Was

A-H (8/36) they all scan. Qrafter is the best free iPhone app I've found for scanning QR codes. I was thinking of making a mini gif-set tutorial for some of the more complicated woven stitches (such as the big squares on E and H), if anyone would be interested.


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