There are so many amazing people on Pinterest but one artist who I’ve been following is Mary Osmundsen. She recently posted a piece by Lee Boroson and I had to share this artist’s amazing inflated installations! The above piece is built out of nylon, monofilament, hardware, a blower, etc. – those are handmade clouds, inflated [...]
The Hallway Gallery in Jamaica Plain has a new show up right now, Katrine Hildebrandt. She uses paper cutting as her medium and she does incredible, ocean-inspired work. That’s seriously cut paper. She calls it Yupo Paper, which I had never heard about before. I quick spin through Google explained that it’s a synthetic, water [...]
I love art built in nature and on Pinterest the other day I came across Laura Ellen Bacon’s work from the UK. Her “Nests” are made from natural materials set in a way where people can interact with them within their surroundings. I love that you can’t really tell the difference between the leaves and [...]
Next week I’m having people over for a non-profit meeting on Monday night and, as I walked out of my door this morning I thought, I hope no one cares about all of the animal-related items around the house. We have a cowhide rug and a paper maiche rhino head, ram’s horn lamps and impala [...]
It’s been a crazy few weeks! We got back from Chicago and work, which is normally somewhat quiet around the holidays was anything but – more on that later! As a result I’ve been absent but it seems like my efforts to add SEO tags to my old posts is proving worthwhile – many people [...]
Anchorage, Alaska born Kate Carr is an amazing sculptor who is all about her materials, which oftentimes is textiles, fabric, felt and other materials I love. Felt Coils, above is cut felt sewn together onto a plywood backing. It looks to me like rings of a tree, which I’ve seen people wet felt before in [...]
I’m writing today from Chicago. We’re here for the Thanksgiving holiday with my boyfriend’s family and boy is it cold. It’s got me thinking about crochet, knitwear, felting, and anything that would warm my feet! I had sent myself an email last week of links to artists’ pages I found somewhere along the way (and [...]
Emily Dvorin is a self-defined sculptural basketmaker. She works in vessel format but uses recycled, upcycled materials that are commonly thought of as commercial products, including but not limited to wire, fabric, plastics, etc. She uses these materials to discuss overconsumption, “societal excess, and throwaway consumerism.” In using the vessel shape she ends up creating [...]
I work in a business where people are often rude to me and my colleagues – they think we’re an unnecessary cog in the wheel, and I get treated as such, not often – but enough. When I get to come home, blog about the beautiful and obscure, I not only feel better about myself but everything [...]
Neil is once again in for a win with the article he sent me on his recent trip back to America, to Rochester – Memorial Art Gallery has a phenomenal show up it appears, Extreme Materials 2, and many of the artists included in the show are using techniques and materials I’m digging. Once of [...]
Happy November! I can’t believe how fast the last 10 days have gone by – Halloween, our friends’ wedding, NYC for work, Esplanade benefit, houseguests – now we’re at November 6th – crazy! It was nice to get an extra hour of sleep last night and I’m pretty sure I spent that hour banging around [...]
There are so many amazing people on Pinterest but one artist who I’ve been following is Mary Osmundsen. She recently posted a piece by Lee Boroson and I had to share this artist’s amazing inflated installations! The above piece is built out of nylon, monofilament, hardware, a blower, etc. – those are handmade clouds, inflated [...]
I probably get 40 shopping emails a day from all sorts of sites – group buying, discount, just awesome – and I hate to say it but rarely is there a day when I have time to open any of them except for the home decorating ones. Today I really didn’t have time but I’d [...]
Some might argue that our home is done and decorated but others would say that will never be true! A home evolves over time as you collect great things and receive wonder gifts (our anniversary was a case in point, I now own this). DwellStudio just started offering home accessory items according to some Twitter [...]
Last Valentine’s Day was a blur of six girlfriends in bright colors on South Beach soaking up the sun and listening to awesome playlists. This year, while they make the pilgrimage again, I don’t think I’ll be making the journey. With the change that was my move to Boston I sort of dropped the ball [...]
Last night while in San Francisco for work I was able to take an hour in between events for dinner with my cousin David. We were at a bar on Minna St. so we walked down the way to a restaurant called Anchor & Hope. The ambiance of the restaurant was exactly what I like [...]
While poking around on sites my boyfriend sent me I came across Mjolk Shop. I have long been a fan of Scandinavian design and this site blends Scandinavian treats with Japanese ones as well. As it’s the holidays I thought it was appropriate to share some of the coolest things I found on the site. [...]
