dollhouse fritillary roam

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley 

Whew, the temperature today is down to 87 with a 50% chance of rain.  The last few days have been quite beautiful and clear as the northern edges of this state got 20" in one day.  I hear they were being plucked from their roofs!  Hope that the whole front has moved away but spring always brings strange weather behaviors it seems.  Hope I don't have to climb onto my roof-  all those barrel tiles are difficult to stand on.  

I've pretty much got my head around a project for the studio so today I'll stop at Home Depot for some supplies and if it'a a bust you'll never hear about it again.  If it's a 'go' I will speak of nothing else.  Then I'll visit Jerry's Art-o-rama for some additional stuff, maybe some silver leafing in vast quantity.  But alas, I talk too much.  Later.

Before I get going on the arty party, I want you to use this chart for identification purposes because as you'll see, things aren't always what they seem (or seam!)

Today's theme is the Unnatural world:  What you see isn't really related to what you get!  But what you do get is ME gasping for air at the wonderfulness of it all! 

 gasp gasp

Starting with layers of Finnish birch plywood artist Ron Isaacs builds elaborately designed constructions onto which he paints, in a trompe l’oeil fashion, the delicate details of leaves sprouting from clothing or the textured surface of twigs and bark. Each piece merges three recurring subjects found in most of his works: vintage clothing, plant materials, and found objects.

Our Changing Seas III is the third piece in a series of large-scale ceramic coral reef sculptures by artist Courtney Mattison. The sprawling installation is entirely hand-built and is meant to show the devastating transition coral reefs endure when faced with climate change, a process called bleaching.  Unbelievable.

 THROWBACK THURSDAY THRICE! 

Therapy Squirrel!  'Tommy Tucker' was a domesticated squirrel fro the 40's who dressed up to visit sick kids in the hospital. This was before they pets had to have shots and their claws cut obviously.  His/ her owner caretaker would make little frocks for Tommy, pack up some nuts, and away they would go to the sick kids.  So, here are the old photos of the sick kids and the fashionable squirrel of undetermined sexual orientation-  we'll call him transgendered for our purposes here but perhaps he/she had a strong sense of who he/she was but was forced into the dumb clothes.  We don't know. Perhaps he perished from embarrassment.  (With thanks to Liza who found Tommy online just in time!  I get by with a little help from my friends, I get high with a little help from my friends...)