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Posted 13 April 2014 & filed under Inspiration.

I didn’t really know what to call this post (which will be part of an ongoing series), so I just picked something rather than get hung up on it… This series is about what’s been inspiring me this week. It could be anything, but this time it’s music and some artwork I found via Pinterest…

alfred-schnittke-piano-music

I’m currently adoring this new album of Alfred Schnittke’s Complete Piano Music performed by Simon Smith. Q2 provides a nice overview of it, and they’re currently streaming it online.

I spend a lot of time on Pinterest, and I have to say it has been a wonderful source of inspiration and knowledge for me over the past year. I pin a number of images each week, but there are always a few that stay with me and I would like to highlight them here.

lungs
‘God’s Prototype: The Nature of Man: Lungs’ (2002; sticks, stones, graphite and gesso on wood) by Ian Crawley

follen-450

Wire drawings of seeds by Steven Follen

dotsonlines

‘Dancing with dots on thin lines’ (2013) by Leise Dich Abrahamsen

Annegret-Soltau_03

Self (1975-76) by Annegret Soltau

eli-craven-folded-01

Folding by Eli Craven

What images or sounds have captured you lately?

Tags: art, inspiration, music

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i said goodbye to these two sculptures over the we i said goodbye to these two sculptures over the weekend. there's a whole slurry of feelings when i sell a sculpture or vessel. it's always amazing to see people connecting with my work, to want to incorporate it into their homes and lives, and i certainly appreciate adding coin to my coffer. every work i create is deeply meaningful to me and i spend a lot of time with each piece, so i can't help but feel a little sad about parting ways. i know it's woo, but i embrace each piece to impart some good energy before sending it on its way.
i've been thinking a lot about food, specifically i've been thinking a lot about food, specifically the food grown and harvested by people. i've been thinking about how our systems of production and distribution largely exploit BIPOC and benefit white people. these systems benefit the coffers of corporations and harm the land (from chemicals to packaging). meanwhile, it's BIPOC who are most likely to live in food deserts (places with limited access to affordable and nutritious food). the corporate food regime undermines food sovereignty at every turn. untangling ourselves from these systems is hard, and dismantling the systems is even harder. but we must if we truly want an equitable world. ... i've been collecting nylon mesh produce bags for the past year. i hate waste and i think it is an interesting material. i created this collage/meditation/installation using the nylon bags and submitted it to Art-in-Place, a collaboration between @cnlprojects and @terrainexhibitions that invites artists to exhibit an original work of art outside their home or from a window visible to the public between may 20–august 23, 2020. link in profile.
before today, i had never seen a photo of the six before today, i had never seen a photo of the six grandfathers, as this mountain is know to lakota sioux. i had only ever seen the giant heads of mount rushmore, completed in 1941. nevermind that the land had been promised in perpetuity to the sioux in the treaty of 1868. nevermind that the six grandfathers were sacred. the u.s. asserted its dominance over the land for good in 1890 during the wounded knee massacre. 150-300 sioux were killed by the u.s. army; half of them were women and children. ... i’ve been listening to fireworks for the last three hours. i did not celebrate. while i am grateful to have certain freedoms in this country (the right to free speech and protest being high on the list), i know that unless all of us are free, none of us is free. ... the final image is what geologists believe mount rushmore will look like in the year 502,002.
my sincere gratitude to those who bid on the aucti my sincere gratitude to those who bid on the auction last week and made it a success, with $620 donated to organizations building stronger black communities and defending black lives: @fairfightaction @tbactioncollective @belgiannetwork4blacklives @prettybrowngirls @cayanetwork @zebra_coalition thank you! ✨ “Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.” –Audre Lorde
yesterday i packaged and delivered several of the yesterday i packaged and delivered several of the ceramic pieces won in the recent auction. i don’t have branded or standardized packaging because some time ago i made a decision to not buy new materials for packaging, if i could help it. so instead, i use what i have on hand. this philosophy applies to most of my life. these boxes were purchased new at a thrift store in estonia, the paper nests (i love nests) are trimmings left over from an issue of @bonkmagazine, and inside the vessels i placed sprigs of rosemary from my garden. i hope there was a nice little whoosh of rosemary as the boxes were opened.
so far, the auction has raised $550 in defense of so far, the auction has raised $550 in defense of black lives! thank to you those who have already placed bids! you have one more day of bidding. link in profile.
the ceramics auction is now live on my website! li the ceramics auction is now live on my website! link in profile. i’m auctioning off seven ceramic sculptures/vessels today and tomorrow, with 100% of proceeds going to orgs defending black lives. #blm #blacklivesmatter #fundblackfutures #auction #charity #fundraiser #ceramics #ceramicsculpture #ceramicartist #ceramicvessels
i’ve had problems with the auction post on faceb i’ve had problems with the auction post on facebook, so i am deleting the auction and regrouping. the auction will run on sunday and monday instead. 🤦🏻‍♀️ these seven lovelies will be auctioned on sunday and monday, with 100% of proceeds going to organizations in defense of black lives. check back tomorrow for the link!
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