Holiday

I'm off to Norway, camera in hand, posting will resume in a week (or so...)

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Sunday Tune

Saturday Poem

Sarah Moon

Sarah Moon prints currently showing at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London.
The colours are incredible.
Go see!

But it wasn’t some catastrophic moment that taught me one of the most powerful lessons of my life. I learned that unbelievably awful things can and do happen. In truth, they are not such rare, isolated events. Each of us has a story that would break someone’s heart. Despite the grief and the unfairness of it all, we keep going. There are chores to be done. There are people who still need our care. There is a life to be led. 

-- Aldra Robinson

The Wave Pictures: Like Smoke on Nowness.com

I've been pinning... iartrachel

"spring is the time of plans and projects"

-- Tolstoy

Sunday Tune

Youth Lagoon - Montana from Tyler T. Williams on Vimeo.

Saturday Poem

Rupi Kaur

Happy Weekend!

Go and listen to fuzzy radio stations and dance like you are KING!

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Anish Kapoor

Space as object (Acrylic)

If you leave

images from if you leave by by nina ahn, zweifellos mondbetont, tina sosna, nicolas scarpinato, laurence tarquin von thomas, ekaterina pronina, chayamai

“If you treat glass right, it doesn't crack. If you know the properties, you can make things; the color of dusk and night and love. But you can't control people like that and I really, really wish you could. I want the world to be glass.”

-- Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

Stained

Design for a stained glass and a rose window by Louis Comfort Tiffany, late 19th—early 20th century.

"So, my little Amélie, you don't have bones of glass. You can take life's knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So, go get him, for Pete's sake!"

Ancient Glass

Found here

The future has an ancient heart. 

Meditation

BiG | Jeremy Wintrebert from Jérôme de Gerlache on Vimeo.

her bouquet

Her Bouquet, Kiki Smith 

2007-2008. ink on Nepal paper with glass glitter, lithographic crayon and silk tissue; oil paint on mouth-blown clear antique glass with white and yellow gold leaf, two works on Nepal paper, 73-1/2" x 85-1/2" (186.7 cm x 217.2 cm) and 75" x 86" (190.5 cm x 218.4 cm)three glass panels, 23-5/8" x 19-3/4" (60 cm x 50.2 cm) each.

“Beauty is not in the head or in the heart, but in the abdomen.” 

-- Shoji Hamada

(Glass stomach by Kiki Smith)

glass

Indian reverse glass paintings.

Be kind

Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72: The Future Has An Ancient Heart

Sunday Tune

Hello Weekend!

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Saturday Poem

"there are secrets. 
only your hands can tell me." 

— 'the myth' by Della Hicks-Wilson
 

Painting with Fire: Betsy Eby

"When you start playing music at the age of five, it’s just all in you. It’s the way that you move through the world and perceive it—you see rhythms everywhere. You see what you look for—the phrase—and what you become steeped in; that shapes the lens through which you see the world. So certainly the music is in me. It’s in me inherently.

Sometimes I’ll be working on a piece and I’ll hear a piece of music and think, That’s what this piece is, and it’ll come to me that way. Sometimes I’ll be working on a piece at the piano and think, I want to paint that piece. It’s not really just one approach to getting there."

Read and see more by Betsy Eby here.

The handmade glows with a human touch

"There’s nothing more appealing than the feel of the crafter’s hand. Every morning when I drink my tea from a cup made by a friend, its two handles resting on porcelain hips, I am comforted. The slight chip in the lip that I’ve contributed reminds me to slow down when I handle what’s precious."

--  Dominique Browning

Masao Yamamoto

Masao Yamamoto