Textile "Work" & Time for White

As I went around the neighborhood today taking pictures I realized whiteness kept finding me.

This is "Gesamt Kunst Haus", now in wraps while deconstruction begins. This is where they were show-casing "Vancouver House". 
It is going on Howe Street below Pacific.

I became fascinated with details of the white....

 

I could hear the workmen inside laughing & talking. I think they are stripping out salvageables first.   

Then, looking down....

This is the last distinguishable remnant of the Imagination Market--its front door.

I went back to a broken mirror that I had spotted a week before....

I went wild with the cracks & fragmented images.

I know it's not white, but... I couldn't pass this selfie up!

Home-made shelters come & go with great frequency in this zone. 

It's been like that for a long time.

All of that got me thinking about other whites in my life...

Need I say George laughs at me when I rush for the camera for photos while we're changing the sheets?
I sincerely love the folds. Even a paper placemat [above] at a restaurant is fair game! The sheet of paper is all 'mountains' & then turned over, all 'valleys'.

..from a show of a really well-known Japanese textile-maker...

Shadows at home

Well, I could go on for ages...  but I won't.

That's it for now.

Cracked/Cracked

I have been collecting photos of cracks for a long time.
So I decided it was time to give them an airing!

I really only know two things about cracks.
1) if the material is soft, the cracklings tend towards 120 degrees.

2) if the material is hard, the cracking tends towards 90 degrees.

That's some kind of natural law & I love it.

So here goes.....

 lava pillows...

                                      really old glacial scraping cracks inhabited by moss...

totally fake cracks!

more than a crack... a smash!

 

                                            tundra cracks on a pingo

 

.... maybe these two don't count...

 In the one below most of the lines come together in 3s, suggesting softness of the mud material...you see these kinds of lines a lot from the air.

Pillows of ash from volcanic activity

 

... this below is almost like the classic ceramic crack-glaze... so squared off...

 cloth... the wax cracked... & let some dye through....

 ...classic mud/clay...

 

That's it for now.