31 March 2014

Holiday




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

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27 March 2014

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

21 March 2014

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)

20 March 2014

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.

19 March 2014

"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. 

18 March 2014

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)

15 March 2014

Hello Weekend!


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Saturday Poem

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

— 'the myth' by Della Hicks-Wilson
 

14 March 2014

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