April 2011 – Ornamentum

Feature Articles

neon promises

April 1, 2011June 14, 2012 Admin Account

Huyler's restaurant sign, Molou Theatre, Goodbye

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Article by James A. Chambers

n 1971 my new bride and I drove from Toronto to British Columbia in a 1967 VW bus. The Trans-Canada cut through the Prairies like a lesson in one-point perspective. At night the white lines disappearing under the van willed my heavy-lidded eyes to close. Just as I was about to nod off …

Tagged advertisement,Haliburton,light,neon,Ontario,painted wood,signs,Toronto

Feature Articles

the art of warren carther

April 1, 2011July 5, 2012 Admin Account

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Article by Tammy Sutherland

any an auspicious journey has begun with a moment of epiphany, of ‘seeing the light’. Few, however, can claim this to be the case quite literally. Into this elite category falls Warren Carther, an artist whose life-long love of glass was initiated by a serendipitous encounter with what he now refers to as a …

Tagged architecture,glass,sculpture,Winnipeg Art Gallery

Feature Articles

the dancing ash

April 1, 2011June 3, 2012 Admin Account

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Article by Mary Ann Steggles

or as long as individuals have been shaping clay into vessels and objects, wood has been used as a fuel for transforming the malleable earth into a durable vessel or sculpture. The earliest objects were fired in shallow pits or bonfires where the temperature only reached about 820 degrees Celsius. The Chinese were …

Tagged bamboo,China,clay,dragon kiln,Japan,kilns,Porcelain

Feature Articles

mi’kmaq basketry

April 1, 2011June 3, 2012 Admin Account

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Article by Joleen Gordon

If we could see beneath the forest floor, we would see that all the trees, the pine, the birch, maple and so on, are holding hands, regardless of species. We as people, regardless of race, must come together and hold hands and help each other. We must listen to our Mother Earth. She is sending

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Tagged Atlantic Canada,basketry,First Nations,New Brunswick,ornamentation,Sewing

Editorial

the medium is the message

April 1, 2011March 1, 2012 Admin Account

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Article by John Fleming and Marian Bradshaw

arshall McLuhan’s pithy formula–“the medium is the message”–has become an ever-present cliché of the electronic age. This prescient concept can also be applied to the much longer human history of the decorative arts by a simple linguistic sleight of mind–“the material is the message.” In this issue our contributors explore the …

Tagged civilization,fire,material,water