In 1987, in the quiet after-hours at Frank Gehry’s furniture shop, as a janitor named Andrew Kromelow cleaned Gehry’s shop, he would gather stray tools and experiment with arranging them in a grid-like pattern.
He called the practice “knolling,” after the hard angles of Knoll furniture, a popular brand that Gehry was designing for at the time.
Today, knolling more often refers to the art of spacing out objects on a flat surface at tidy angles to one another and photographing the arrangement from above.
Pat, yes, it is a slate - in reality a cheeseboard which our son received as a freebie with a wine order. Although it has some little felt bits underneath, the sharp corners would catch easily on a wooden table so it has become my photographic accessory!
@quietpurplehaze But I bet you could deconstruct more, and reconstruct as you like! Having a light box was key to being able to have light coming through the flowers. If you are interested, here's a link to the first of my flower photography using that method, and it links to Harold's work more: https://365project.org/jyokota/365/2022-08-07
May 14th, 2024
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Pat, yes, it is a slate - in reality a cheeseboard which our son received as a freebie with a wine order. Although it has some little felt bits underneath, the sharp corners would catch easily on a wooden table so it has become my photographic accessory!
Thank you - the summer breeze caused me a few, but not insurmountable problems!!
Wendy, thank you and I agree that the word has a charm all of its own!
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I did not know and looked it up, thank you. Something to investigate but I did not keep these deconstructed flowers!