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I REPAIR Freud 1919 Das Unheimliche Mahoni dolls Frost pace — Repair begins where familiar broken and made strange. Freud 1919 uncanny doll returned from mending. Mahoni dolls small cloth-jointed North Wales repaired generations mismatched thread darned faces re-sewn limbs. Each repair record thread colour date hand place. Not restored to new made truer by mends. Mends as archive. Stitch visible. Keep what can be kept. Something to be proud of.
II RE-ENCHANT Walter Benjamin 1936 Aura Van Gogh Letters 1882-1890 Yr Wyddfa — Benjamin 1936 aura withers mechanical reproduction when work copied detached place labour ritual. We work other way. Vase wheel-thrown Anglesey clay ash glaze catches light Yr Wyddfa Snowdon visible clear days Benllech. Mountain not pictured present in making. Vase with flowers studio table tide dependent. Aura returned naming place time hand. One thing well. Van Gogh letters to Theo 1882-1890 described how long stood looking 20h 30h standing. Labour made visible. One object at a time name place let hold place. Benllech Anglesey Wales No postcode Anglesey-only. Your believes kept.
III MAKE ANEW Warhol Factory 1962-68 Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Chong Su 重塑 — Making anew not novelty. Tradition material not rule. Warhol Factory 1962-68 repetition form production not reproduction silver walls continuous work people as material. Screen drag shift choice not instruction keep mis-registration. Production as performance tool inert decision alive. Shonibare CBE RA transverse myelitis at 18 permission make differently takes Dutch wax prints colonial trade cloth made Holland sold West Africa re-tailors history Victorian dress African fabric European history seam is argument. To make anew not invent from nothing reshape what already here with care. RM 重塑 chong su Re + mould reshape recast repair not new but made new again. New but completely coherent with old. Warhol & Shonibare artist proofs enlarged below A3 verso signed archive only.
IV CRAFTSMANSHIP IS IN THE THINKING Jean Baudrillard 1981 Simulacra Richard Sennett 2008 Craftsman Frost pace not gone out window — Baudrillard 1981 Simulacra and Simulation warned simulacra copy without original image circulates for own sake detached place labour hand hyperreality. Remedy not reject tools think before them decision keep thread stain hem is craft tool inert decision alive deciding first make second leave toolmarks where decision lives. Sennett 2008 Craftsman craftsmanship habit attention doing one thing well for own sake learning do better by thought hand follows mind paused thinking is work resistance by origin Benllech. Your hard thinking not gone out window here in frost pace documented. Your believes kept. Something to be proud of. Decide first make second.
00:00:00 → 00:00:10 CLIP ONE DECLARATION BENLLECH WALES 10TH SEPT 2026
REIMAGINISM We do not reject story We repair story We repair we re-enchant we make anew Fashion Textiles Mahoni dolls Craftsmanship is in the thinking Founded by Iris Owen Hung MA Fine Art PGCE.
00:00:10 → 00:00:18 CLIP 2 FOUR PRINCIPLES
One Repair We mend what is missing so story follows Two Re-enchant We bring wonder back to everyday things Three Make Anew It is new but completely coherent with the old Four Craftsmanship is in the thinking.
00:00:18 → 00:00:29 CLIP 3 THE TOOL
Andy Warhol had his screen print Van Gogh had his paintbrush We have digital technology helping us visualise AI is a tool Like a paintbrush The craftsmanship is in the thinking.
00:00:29 → 00:00:40 CLIP 4 NARRATIVE REPAIR FREUD
We do not reject story We repair story Memories are fragments Sigmund Freud taught us this Postmodern takes bits and traces REIMAGINISM mends what is missing so story follows New but completely coherent with the old.
00:00:40 → 00:01:00 CLIP 5 LIKE WARHOL SCREEN PRINT CHOICE HIS IMAGE HIS
Andy Warhol got someone else to do screen printing But thinking was his Choice was his Image was his Van Gogh had his paintbrush We have digital Digital world helping us visualise Different paintbrush tool Craftsmanship not just hands pull print It is thinking decides what to print Memories fragmented Freud taught us this.
00:01:00 → 00:01:12 CLIP 8 DOOR TO FUTURE AI DECEASED ENERGY ULTRASOUND 3D PRINTER
With help AI digital technology we able carry on creating memories Every moment would be remembered by person alive reimaginist But energy from deceased can live on Like door to future imagery sound Ultrasound may provide tactile feelings 3D printer can create objects.
00:01:12 → 00:01:22 CLIP 9 TRY IT YOURSELF YOU ARE REIMAGINIST
Try it yourself prove it will work for everyone Take fragmented memory Scanning old photo Or old pics from phone Mend what is missing so story follows You are the reimaginist Craftsmanship is in your thinking.
00:01:22 → 00:01:35 CLIP 6 HOW WE CAN USE IT DECEASED LOVED ONE BELOVED PET OLD LOCATION DEMOLISHED BUT STILL HOME KEEP LOVE
How we can use REIMAGINISM To help us carry on imagining Creating new memories based on what happened Whether with deceased loved one Or beloved pet An old location now demolished But you still call it home We use facts history things that happened And we imagine what could be We repair story We keep love.
00:01:35 → 00:01:58 CLIP 10 IT WOULD BE REAL YR WYDDFA SNOWDON GRANDPA VASE NOT SMASHED WATER FLOWERS WINDOW LIGHT
It would be real It does not matter it is not real Because it would be real if other parties things still around Like you would have really gone to walk up Snowdon Yr Wyddfa with grandpa if still alive Like if vase not smashed you would be able put water flowers in it place in window You would put fresh water You would pick flowers from garden You would place in window where light catches it.
00:01:58 → 00:02:12 CLIP 12 CAMERA ONCE SEEN AS CHEATING PHOTOGRAPHY CHEATING PAINTERS SAID NOT REAL ART MACHINE CAMERA DIFFERENT PAINTBRUSH AI DIFFERENT PAINTBRUSH LOVE CONTINUES
The camera was once seen as cheating When photography invented painters said cheating It is not real art Just machine But thinking still artist's Choice still artist's Image still artist's Camera different paintbrush tool Now digital AI different paintbrush tool Craftsmanship not just hands press button It is thinking decides what to capture what to reimagine Fashion Textiles Mahoni dolls Thoughtful making Founded by Iris Owen Hung REIMAGINISM Love continues.