El Greco
Wow, what a day! I dropped into the studio to check the box I covered the other day and pick up some new knitting because the top I'm making at home is lacework and my brain can't do it if I have any distractions. Anyway I have 2 skeins of beautiful space dyed yarn that I think are just enough to make a little sweater. As I was picking up the need;les the skies opened up and the rain absolutely came in buckets. My car was right at the studio door but no way could I make it without getting soaked so I hunkered down until it let up. I called the woman I was supposed to meet and said I would be late and she agreed not to meet me so I fooled around and kicked the furniture for TWO HOURS. I finally gave up and decided to go home so I didn't care if I got wet or not. Little did I know the street into my industrial park was flooded out- I was following a pick up truck out and the water was up his wheels- no way I wanted to proceed in my Mini but I was past the point of no return and had to forge my way forward. Good thing my car was water tight because the water was up the door in some places. I finally made it home but what a waste of a day! Our house is on a bit higher ground so all was well and even though the pool had overflowed it's cement banks, the water was running out the gate to the street as opposed to INTO the house. Not quite Colorado, but still dangerous. Yea, Alice-the-Cooper, for getting me home. Tomorrow she gets a good slurp of gas for her troubles.
I managed to knit myself silly all afternoon and just now finished the back of the new wee sweater. I decided on a 18 month size figuring most of his gifts will be for teeny tiny babies because the stuff is so cute. It's nice to knit with thicker yarns again, and nice soft wool too. Very impractical but he will only be in it one, possibly two seasons. Might not ever have to even be washed.
Stephanie Kelly creates beautifully detailed illustrations out of thread. The series featured here is entitled “Dwellings” and speaks to the theme of domesticity that informs Kelly’s use of embroidery and her attempt to reclaim craft as fine art. Painting with thread instead of oils gives her work depth and tactility, creating rich and voluminous textures and blends. Kelly embroiders thread and fabric wallpaper pieces onto stretched canvases, which gives her work this remarkably detailed multi-textured design.
Nick van Woert's latest project titled "Course of Empire" consists of two hundred plexiglass boxes whose transparent casings reveal a hodgepodge of found objects such as garden hoses, asphalt shingles, cat litter, aquarium rocks, dirt, ketchup, junk mail, dog toys, marzipan, and T-shirts. Isolating humanity's contributions to the material world, van Woert presents these “artificial” objects as graphic delineations organized by color and texture.
Old postcard- What in hell is that guy doing? He is paddling SAND! The lady with the blond wig is so impressed that she won't get wet on this ride.
Isn't this gorgeous photography? One of the masters of high speed liquid photography, Alberto Seveso, is back with a new series of photos titled Dropping. The Italian photographer achieved these particular shots by dropping mixtures of colored ink into a container of oil and then flipping the final images upside down.
now try and get that out of your head!
A special-needs squirrel, hope he gets caught before he becomes an easy target.
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