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Recently moved to Chicago from Dallas, career lady, distracted writer and artist. Creating a life one post at a time.
"All good things are wild and free." - Henry David Thoreau
In 1975, photographer Nicholas Nixon took a picture of his wife and her 3 sisters, who at the time ranged in age from 15 to 25. Then he did it again the next year and suggested that they make it an annual tradition. This photo projected has gone on for the last 36 years.
Hello sisters,
I was lucky enough to see this perspective in-person at The Modern in Fort Worth, Texas. It’s incredibly beautiful, raw real in person.
Wall Piece with 200 Letters (2010-11) - “From march 2010 until february 2011 I formed one new text on the wall of Kiasma museum every week.”
Hello life texts.
Etsuko Ichikawa - Deai (2005)
Artist’s statement:
“These works are glass pyrographs that are made by drawing with hot molten glass, leaving the immediate charred tracery of my movement with the heat.
It is a way of capturing a fleeting moment and eternalizing it, and it gives the viewer the opportunity to see a gesture.”
Hello charred.
“Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts
in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter.”—Rumi
One of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets and one of my favorite works of art.
Hello the perfect way to welcome spring.
Women Watching Stars (1936) at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo
Ota Chou Women Observing Stars (1936). Ink on paper.
This really compositionally interesting because you can see the women are in traditional kimono with the short bobbed hair. This telescope depicted here happens to be the one at the National Museum of Nature and Science. So all and all they are modern because of their hair and are learning/inquisitive science. All very modern but still reserves of the traditional because of their clothing. TALK ABOUT MIXED MESSAGING FOR THE MODERN WOMAN!!! Though for the record most Japanese women by this time and especially after the 1924 quake would have had experiences with Western clothes and hairstyles. Fun Fact:This was made into a stamp in the 90’s.
Hello women in science.
Hello modern,
Sometimes you need some art, Basquiat fits that bill.
via mentalflossr:
Hello passion for art.
