Sous le Soleil Exactement

For some reason this completely explains how I've been feeling all year

Rob Wynne

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blue rainbow

Please take a look at my friend Akiko's Etsy site: bluerainbow. 

She makes adorable and beautiful items and each one

is so well made! Plus there's free shipping!

more here!

Just back from a week long road trip (5 states in 6 days) to Texas for South by Southwest with Barn Owl

Sadly I lost the photographs I took of beautiful southern homes and wisteria 

that made me think of ladies drinking mint juleps on their porches

but we did go swimming in the river, 

to a country party at the Broken Spoke (one of Willy Nelson's favorite spots), 

and saw a lot of big big skies.

comme des garcons

there's something very erie about Rei Kawakubo's collections

like a ghost you might see in the corner of your eye

walking down the street or in the shadow of a hallway

I have to admit I'd totally wear that veil around if I had it in me

(more here)

the highlands and meyer lemon creams

photographs of the Scottish highlands

(found in Life archive files)

my hands feel like they might fall off from doing transcription work all week,

today was sunny and full of energy

so

I went down to get a salted caramel and meyer lemon ice cream cone

irish lace

someday my poor future children will have to wear these daily.

(found here)

so beautiful

3 Desires

this shirt

a barn for a home

and a torta di mora

Anna Von Mertens

Last week artist Anna Von Mertens lectured in a class of mine. She makes quilted bed sculptures as well as works seen on the wall. In one of her series she uses an astronomy mapping software to calculate the coordinates of violent moments in history. The software shows how the stars appeared at the moment and in that place. She then hand-stitches the map of those stars. Incredible!

She spoke about the importance in her life of framing herself as a 'conceptual artist' rather than a 'textile' or 'fiber artist'. I thought this was such a great point in that, it seems to me, that fiber artists automatically join a community of gossipy wealthy women whose motives for creating art are having too much time on their hands. In my past experiences I've learned that I not only can't stand this community but want to be taken seriously. I feel a little loose in the skin of 'conceptual artist' but maybe I can grow into it.

Two of her pieces:

'Black'

'Vanishing Point'