Charles Hippolyte Aubry

Tales

“ If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! ”

-- Shel Silverstein

Andreas Engesvik

“The Woods” by Oslo based artist/designer Andreas Engesvik, created in collaboration with Norwegian design studios StokkeAustad:

“The inspiration was found in the forests and the lights of the North. A tree changing colours and transparency through the seasons is a fascinating process which was captured in this glass object.”

Now I want to see Norway through all four seasons...i've done Summer and Winter...Spring and Autumn to go.

Lynn Pollard

“This piece is made with a special technique I developed. I dip paper into a vat of natural indigo dye and move it in ways to create the image–no paintbrush is used. The paper is dipped multiple times over a number of days to add complexity and to take advantage of the fact that the indigo vat is constantly changing. The paper has a deckled edge, and reflects the fact that it has been wet.”

Sounds like meditation in motion to me.
Lynn Pollard found via The Jealous Curator

Suriname Dreams

Viviane Sassen’s Colorful Study of a remote Surinamese jungle village of Pikin Slee.
Found via Nowness

Sunday Tunes

Found here

(found here)

Oh

Oh by Kiki Smith

 LEONATO
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
  BEATRICE
Not till God make men of some other metal than earth.
Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a
piece of valiant dust? To make an account of her life to a clod
of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll none.

-- Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare) 

Sabine Mirlesse

I went to The Photographers Gallery yesterday (there is a photo in their print room by Ori Gersht that I like to go and stare at every now and again) and I came across the work of Sabine Mirlesse. Her book As if it should have been a quarry gave me goose pimlpes. Georgeous.

In fact I'm going to go back and get it...

Cătălin Petrișor

Selected paintings by Cătălin Petrișor

Stories

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. 

-- Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Tom Hull

 From Sprung by Tom Hull

Bread and Roses

A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: "Bread and roses! Bread and roses!"

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,

For they are women's children, and we mother them again.

Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;

Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead

Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.

Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.

Yes, it is bread we fight for - but we fight for roses, too!

As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.


The rising of the women means the rising of the race.

No more the drudge and idler - ten that toil where one reposes,

But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!

-- James Oppenheim Joan Baez and Mimi Farina sing Bread and Roses.

 The Baez Sisters, 1968.

Sunday Tune

The Tallest Man On Earth - Love Is All (Official Video) from johan stolpe on Vimeo.

Negtive Space

1. TooGood
2. Cy Twombly's map of the U.S.
3. Richard Serra
4. Alain Resnais
5. John Baldessari
6. Stars
7. Jil Sander archive
 8. Ellsworth Kelly

Friday!

Yep.
From Gazpacho Blog

Bubble portrait (Clouds), 2004
Julianne Schwartz
(Source: mpdrolet)

Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson

The subject matter is the human effort to hide the fear, blood and guts behind the elevated image of purity, the constant search for the ideal, our need to reach the perfect, on the inside as well as on the outside.
  -- Arnar Matthiasson on Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson