.spiral.

for Matt.

at the DIA.

mildred's lane

I happened upon the New York Times article and slideshow about J. Morgan Puett and her property a couple weeks ago. Her home is incredible. She views it as an ever-changing work of art. There are so many beautiful objects and so much attention to detail. She also does summer artist-in-residencies and workshops. This looks like such a beautiful place to visit.

Here's a sliver of the article from the New York Times:

"Along with her 8-year-old son, Grey Rabbit, and a changing cast of friends and romantic partners, she has built a home that is an ongoing experiment in art, design and aestheticized living, an artist colony conceived in the communal spirit of 20th-century institutions like Roycroft and Black Mountain College, with her own house, just now being finished, at its heart."

.shop and header photo.

sneak

peek.

.collect.

In the Wednesday half of my pattern design class, we're drawing our patterns and painting them with gouache. I love how the hand-drawn process alters the patterns, so that none of them can repeat as "perfectly" as they do/would on the computer.

I collected these leaves with the intent to use them to create textured grounds. I didn't end up trying the fern, I felt that the leaves were too close together. But, the tomato leaf worked so well. When I painted the leaf with just water and and pressed it onto the already painted ground, not only did it imprint its shape, but it also left its own green color on the paper.

Using natural materials this way is really fun to do, as each leaf behaved differently. I need to collect some more tomato leaves before they all get ucky with the cold.

When I have the chance, I'll scan in the sample I made with these, some parts of it look like they have potential... I would like to maybe even create a pattern simply using these techniques, rather than delegating them to the ground, destined to be covered by more flat paint.

covered.

i love this coat.

wait til i have a better picture and show you the whole thing. the bottom half is amazing, too!

forever 21.

haha, i am 21 right now. i should probably buy as much stuff as i can before i turn 22.

how utterly ridiculous!

time stood still, yet all was blurred.

I saw these paintings by Alyssa Monks on Diana's blog and could not resist posting them here. I truly love them. Water has such a transcendental quality and is historically, evolutionarily and socially intensely important to humanity. I suppose there isn't a single organism on this earth to which water isn't intensely important. Our interaction with it is definitely a wonderful thing to see portrayed.

I can't even imagine what it must take to create these paintings. I love seeing work that blurs boundaries.