Amazing what one can do with some thread, nails and wood. Check out these incredible pieces by artist Gabriel Dawe, made of just that: guterman thread, wood and nails.
Like snowflakes that remind you life is beautiful. It already snowed here in Wisconsin - my little cousin and I were catching snowflakes in our mittens, admiring each tiny flake. They really are stunning!
I am back at home in Wisconsin just for a few months to help out some family. Then the world is mine for the taking! Tonight I am taking it easy and watching the classic, The Wizard of Oz. I love, love, LOVE it when Dorothy first opens the door to Munchkinland and suddenly the world is in color! It's so magical! The use of color throughout the film is really stunning: the color-changing horses, Emerald City, the field of red poppies, the yellow brick road, Glenda the Good Witch's pink poofy dress, the green Wicked Witch of the West and of course those sparkly ruby slippers!
So here is to embracing change, paving my own yellow brick road - and for now accepting that there is no place like home!
A lot of bubble gum. Simone Decker's work Chewing in Venice reminds me of my college friend Jeni Kittleson who once did an installation piece involving chewing gum. She sat for hours in the student union chewing gum and sticking it under a corner table until it formed a massive a.b.c. (already been chewed) gum sculpture. Here's to you and your hard working jaw!
But the temperature is not. I am longing for that crisp fall air, the kind that requires you to take your sweaters out of hibernation....hopefully soon.
Until then I will just enjoy these works by British artist Andy Goldsworthy.
So I haven't been posting much. When I am not working I am knee deep in fabric, yarn and other notions. I am working very hard to get it done....though I have a ways to go. I will get there.
Here are some cool picture of a human web made of 700 rolls of packing tape. Watch the video too! Pretty cool - but nothing compares the the real deal. Spiders rule!