{"id":5578,"date":"2013-09-24T02:39:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2013-09-24T02:39:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:39:24","slug":"two-things-news-from-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5578","title":{"rendered":"two things: News from Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hola! So summer is officially over in Seattle. The sky has switched back to its default position, rain, and I’ve had to turn the heat back on.<\/p>\n

So Turbo and I went to Portland on Friday for a meeting. Well, I went for a meeting, Turbo was in on it because it’s Portland. The upshot of the meeting, with the retail manager and the wonderful gallery staff of the Museum of Contemporary Craft<\/a> gallery store, is that my work is now stocked in Portland. Check it out if you’re in the area. They are the first in the world to stock my new collection of rings; hopefully I’ll get some down to Australia pretty soon too.<\/p>\n

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Parallel Planes Ring 4. Stainless steel, 925 silver, vitreous enamel, 2013. \u00a9 Melissa Cameron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second thing – ever since our last trip to Portland and my first visit to the Museum (in August for Turbo’s birthday – which, yes, precipitated the current trip), I’ve been following Namita Wiggers, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum on twitter, and also her tumblr blog<\/a>. And yesterday she posted this, which I thought was really interesting, especially if you consider it in context of what several writers say about contemporary jewellery:<\/p>\n

Design is a vessel. There\u2019s the whole Buddhist thing about the essence of a bowl being its emptiness\u2014that\u2019s why it\u2019s useful. Its emptiness allows it to hold something. I guess that means that design must talk about something else. If you make design about design, you\u2019re just stacking bowls, and that\u2019s not what bowls are for.<\/h1>\n
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Unlike dogs<\/a>, design isn\u2019t about design but about something else \u2013 a conversation with\u00a0Frank Chimero<\/strong>, author of\u00a0The Shape of Design<\/a><\/em>, on\u00a0The Great Discontent<\/a><\/em>. (TGD also did an interview with yours truly\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Frank Chimero: Design and Bowls\u2026. #objectfocusbowl<\/p>\n

(via explore-blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Interesting, no?<\/p>\n

Thanks PDX. We’ll visit again soon, promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa goes to Portland. Shenanigans…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,58,107,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dialogue","category-galleries-2","category-jewellery","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5578\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}