sweet wooden "family unit" by goosegrease.
they also sell unpainted collections so you can create your own. i'm game!!!
not your ordinary water bottle...
pet bottles in their prime. this image features these small plastic "scales" made for a lamp shade by artist, gulnur ozdaglar out of repurposed pet bottles. the second image is both sculpture and bowl; a fine use for the gazillion water bottles that would typically end up in the landfill if not recycled or reused. bravo!!!
via design*sponge
object..
this scarf as an object...so beautiful. found at marni
....this
my heart fluttered when i came across these beautiful and incredibly sweet, tiny vases made from pebbles.
made by artist mitsuru koga
found via ah-yi
all things clear....
i love all things clear....this wreath is lovely :O)
via design*sponge
ho ho ho who wouldn't know.......
that santa doesn't like to wear pants!!!!
we took this picture while visiting our good friends rick and kirsten while we were in st. louis. this is there little collection of holiday cheer. love the naked santas.
rings...
i love the work of karl fritsch. i remember first seeing his work when i was in munich about 8.5 years ago for a show. i wish i new the name of the gallery we stumbled into and saw his work. that trip was incredible. my mom, aunt, and sister all went with me. i was in a show called "talente 2000" with a few of my very first boxes. here's a few of my favorites rings of fritsch's......
sugar.shit. on my christmas list
favorite pieces from "on sugar mountain. up shit creek." this show is at road agent gallery in dallas. see more of margaret's work on her website. the show runs until january 17th.
from road agent's home page...
"Last year, when the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth launched Pretty Baby, a compelling and disturbing exhibition of works exploring the darker side of adolescence and curated by the Modern’s own Andrea Karnes, Margaret Meehan was the only local artist included in a group of international art stars. And yet Meehan’s work—delicate ceramic sculptures and curious drawings of variously mutated young girls—played hardball with works by the likes of Nathalie Djurberg, Catherine Opie and Richard Phillips, and was unflinching in its presentation of what is inherently menacing, sad, strange and resilient about the experience of childhood. While some parents and teachers were reportedly skittish about Meehan’s unapologetically exposed creatures, children were fascinated and drawn to them, as though recognizing old friends they’d missed terribly but had been forbidden to visit.
Meehan’s concern with locating the sublime in the grotesque is as grounded in a traditional Victorian obsession with medical anomalies as it is with defying our more recent attempt to banish all nastiness and discomfort from our daily experience. In Meehan’s eyes, oily real life indeed seeps up into our fluffy, shiny world, and that’s where things finally get interesting (and often quite funny and absurd). Thus, Meehan directs an admiring gaze, full of defiance and poetry, at all the weird jolts and unexpected biology we call life. She adapts to those gruesome facts, celebrates them, lets the innocent collide with the monstrous in the most unsettling way to create a more rounded experience—a sensibility inherited as much from David Cronenberg or David Lynch as Louise Bourgeois. This is formal presentation tangled up in a knot of rank intestines. Beauty possessed by a Body Snatcher. Sugar laced with shit.
Meehan lives and works in Dallas, Texas. She received her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle."
big hug. bigger thank you!!!
my new found friend/email pen pal and canadian artist, yael, mailed me this amazingly beautiful and stunning bracelet as a thank you. WOW, i was completely floored. it is so lovely in every way. i love the bright colors. it is truly perfect for me. recently, i mailed her a copy of ornament magazine that her and i were both featured in for "the ring show, then and now". she makes incredible work with glass beads, gemstone beads, sterling, resin, and fibers. for more eye candy and stunning jewelry click her name to go to her website. thank you so much yael. i will never forget your kindness and generosity.
pots and flowers...
a couple photos of chris' pottery and beautiful flowers by friend christa brought us from her rose garden.
on sugar mountain. up shit creek.
if your in dallas on saturday nitght, treat yourself to the new show by margaret meehan. on sugar mountain. up shit creek. opens on saturday, december 13th at road agent gallery. i can't wait to see the show. i have been patiently waiting for this time to come. congrats margaret.
...poo
this made me laugh!! piece by brian gibb
i have been delayed in posting finished work...i will be posting soon!!! :O)
polyps...what a tease.
i have been fascinated by salt water aquariums since i was young and had a few fish of my own. i would go to the aquarium shop to buy food and become mesmerized by the wide array of colors, textures and variety of shapes moving about in their seductive underwater dance. i always dreamed of having one someday but was under the impression that it is much more work than a fresh water tank and also not suitable for a beginner. "oh contrare" says the man behind the fish tank counter. chris and i went in because i have been wanting to get a goldfish that has the "water balloon" looking eyes. well, they didn't have those BUT they did have some really amazing salt water fish, sponges, starfish.....they even had a bright yellow seahorse. it was pure bliss watching those little creatures work their magic. the image above is from a website forum for people who have small salt water aquariums. how amazing would it be to have a small piece of ocean life in your house to see it change and grow everyday :O) click here to see some amazing varieties of salt water gems. image by civicsit.
super girl..
this girl is super....fun, crazy and whimsical softies at dayofthehead, found on etsy...... love this one!!!