Monday, January 24, 2011

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,

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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!)

Monday, January 17, 2011

Ernst Haeckel was a German biologist, naturalist, artist, etc/nine
other things says wikipedia. Point is, he did all these

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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.



Monday, January 10, 2011