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Happy New Year! I’ve officially been writing this blog for 2 years now – wow how time flies! I hope everyone had a great holiday break and is back to the grind. For my part, this morning I learned that West Elm would be selling art from Etsy artists via their catalog it appears. When […]

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This amazing artist came via my brother who was reading the BLDGBLOG a while ago and sent it to me. Last month I was largely in Morocco with a non-profit, Nest, that I volunteer with but now I’m back and have several great artists to post on. Shannon lives and works in Maine, not far […]

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As I’ve mentioned before, my friend Philae is basically my source for all things good and right in the contemporary art world. She just took an amazing new job at 20×200 and thus far she has already been exposing me to such great artists/reminding me to continually check in on the site as they get […]

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As we decorate our new place we have tons of artwork propped up against the walls that we’re trying to decide what should go where. Charlotte showed me one big piece she has a plan for the other night and it got me thinking — I have no room in my room for new things […]

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My brother is a huge fan of Google Reader. By the time I wake up in the morning I typically have between 1-3 forwards and some of them are really interesting (many are images of puppies). As my brother lives in Baltimore I was particularly taken by an artist he sent me today, who subsequently […]

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After spending some time at the Danish Design Museum I became interested in tessellated lamps. I came across British artist, Richard Sweeney, somewhere along and adore the patterns he creates, largely out of paper. His paper folding technical skills speak for themselves as pieces of wall art, sculpture, and X-acto tactics. The below would make […]

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Another recent Etsy discovery has been Perch Papier based in Seattle. I really like her designs as they’re very anemone-like. She calls them her burst cards, little bursts of life! I also like the ones below – little clusters of bubbles are clearly becoming a trend in my interests – I also love the green […]

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In keeping with my current obsession with all things amoeba-like, I was introduced to Tara Donovan and went to see her show at the ICA the day before it closed. I’m in love with almost all of her pieces. She takes everyday object including common pins, toothpicks, plastic straws, styrofoam cups, scotch tape, mylar film, […]