Wearables

Some looks from the mint designs Fall/Winter 2011-12 collection designed by Hokuto Katsui and Nao Yagi. So so beautiful!

Place

Top three images from an ambitious project collapsing
A Drawing Diary
From Renilde De Peuter's terrace

Good works

Margo Ducharme via Montmarte
an ambitious project collapsing
Quilt from Building Block
an ambitious project collapsing
Beautiful things at ANAISE like this wonderful blouse, which is on sale
Characters by Elisabeth Dunker from Fine Little Day
This geometric neck piece.

Drawing Corner: Maria Walker

Works by Maria Walker, drawing as painting, painting as sculpture. I like these. The titles are so juicy, they give the pieces a history, describe an action that seems frozen; they are moment making. Found her via NUDASHANK, a gallery here in Baltimore. They showcase interesting artworks and they have a great shop.

Opposite Knead, 2009

Back to Back to Back, 2009

Untitled, 2010

slivers and corners

Slivers and corners of color goodness. Top image from Hand/Eye Magazine, second and bottom images by Matthew Yake and middle image of Hand/Eye Magazine by Lena Corwin.

lovers

I can't help but think of these two foods as lovers on a plate. It is ugly and very beautiful at the same time. Found them here.

Drawing Diary: Emily Counts

I found Emily Counts work on work.place, a documentary of Portland artists photographed by Carlie Armstrong. Her ceramics of everyday objects manipulated and re-imagined are really nice. I like seeing her workspace, her environment as an extension of her work and her relationship to the things she surrounds herself with.

Good morning Saturday

It sounds like Summer here, the trees are singing the song of bugs. I stumbled upon this wonderful blog called VIA, via Intelligent Clashing this morning. Both blogs are such nice places to spend time browsing, thought I would share.

After much of the week working late, Matt is home and I have a baby shower for a dear friend to attend. This is going to be a nice day. Hope you have a good Saturday as well.

Dog sitting

Our friends are out of town and we are dog sitting their new puppy, Cooper. He is so sweet and Eleanor is happy to have a friend.

Working

Annika and I spent most of yesterday working in the studio. Annika is making some beautiful spiral necklaces for Specks & Keepings.

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Specks & Keepings Gift Certificates

Specks & Keepings gift certificates are now available in the shop.

The Future

I am very excited to see this film by Miranda July.

In the studio

Photos from my day in the studio yesterday and things from my home. I took them when my hands needed a break from cutting.

MLY

Matt's work place is just as confusing to see as it is to describe. I love this photo. The background looks like a painting.

Happenings in Michigan

I love to keep up with the goings on of Adam and Erika, two very talented artists, living in Grand Rapids. See what they are up to on Erika's lovely blog, KOTOA.

Erika just got a beautiful new Raleigh bike. I too have been on the look out for a new bike. I am overwhelmed by the choices...especially since I am a bit new to bike riding. Any reccomendations are greatly appreciated, especially if you have a lightweight bike you love to ride around town and commute back and forth to work. I also wanted to share this picture of Erika because she looks so sweet in her Nancy Jo Dress.


I am excited by Adam's small sculpture still lives for the "Touched by Virginia" exhibition catalog, opening late September in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Drawing Corner: Yeondoo Yung

Of course I think this is juicy. Korean artist, Yeondoo Yung, made children's drawings into real life. What a beautiful collaboration; to build in and on imagination.

specks

Specks of surprises by Chen Forng-shean from here.

Monsieur Creme, chestnut and gouache, 2007
When I was in school I also made very small things, see here. This is what I wrote about that work.

The never-ending evidence of everyday life, A decimal point existence.

Pretending to be the crumbs scraped off burnt toast, Jumping in and out of the work, no bigger than a flea.

I fall in love with the speck of green beside me in a field of yellowed paper, A bigger existence disguised as small.

The intimacy of looking, Nothing is without an identity.

The work is a reminder of my smallness.

I like to imagine looking at the world like this. Everything is something. A piece that matters, even in its smallness.

picture writing

Pictures as language, bottom image from here via LVEO.

Welcome, Monday

Good morning. Some nice finds to share...
I like what is happening in this painting by Veronik Willems. Some large people observing a small garden with small happenings and sweet girls dresses from m.o.m.