christmas time in a new home

i know right, kindof embarrassing,

one of my favourite things I saw in New York was this small little late Byzantine piece in theFrick Collection; a virgin and child no less,

it was so much lovelier in person, with much more detail, and the carving and painting is all one piece of wood, tucked away in a little corner,

spiritual archivism;

check out Craig Leonard's Genre Generator, and make sure to click refresh at the bottom to keep the new ones coming;

while satirical, fun, and generally light-hearted (and yes, i think this piece is successfully critical too), occasionally i get one that makes me sad (ie corporate hedonism, yuck!)

touchy feely art by others

watercolour drawings by Lucy Barlow

Ernst Haeckel was a German biologist, naturalist, artist, etc/nine

other things says wikipedia. Point is, he did all these

beautiful engravings and lithographs of cells, sea anenomes, animals, plants, etc.

excerpt Hatsu Yume (First Dream) 1981, Bill Viola

I was thinking about light and its relation to water and to life, and also its opposite - darkness or the night and death. I thought about how we have built entire cities of artificial light as refuge from the dark.

Bauhaus tapestry archive, look at more here, sourced here,

did i show you this yet?

old work from november; a single piece, viewed roughly like this;

photo repost

for seventy-five photos by seventy-five artists check out the end of year post at BOOOOOOOM!

that summer feelings gonna haunt you one day in your life;

snowy scenes of years past