I was down and out all day with a migraine yesterday, so I’m taking it as a sign that I need to make it a three day weekend and take today to get back to 100%. I’ll be here bright and early Monday with a few posts before taking the day to celebrate the 4th Tuesday. Happy weekend!
Posted In behind the scenes, my life
Using a rainbow of colorful textiles, Japanese-American artist Hiromi Tango creates sculptures and installations that she then interacts with. Her works are often collaborative, performative, and site-specific as a direct reaction to today’s virtual communication style. In recent years, Hiromi’s work has become more and more focused on neuroscientific concepts, posing questions around neuroplasticity, empathy, and epigenetics in her quest to effect healing and well-being through arts.
As a kid I was endlessly fascinated with the game Mousetrap, so being drawn to Jonathan Knowles‘ photographs of set designer Kyle Bean‘s Complex Simplicity project was a no-brainer. Each one is inspired by the Rube Golberg machine, originating from the man’s cartoon creations of complicated machines designed to complete simple tasks. Captured in a pastel palette with a modern treatment, Knowles created a clean and crisp lighting aesthetic across the project that allowed for a clarity of detail befitting the complex Rube Goldberg machine.
Sometime in the last decade or so, gift bags became the ultimate copout in gifting. Weird shape? Throw it in a bag! Don’t have a box? Throw it in a bag! Running short on time? Throw it in a bag! And while anything that makes life the tiniest bit easier is welcome, so is effort. Wrappu‘s gift boxes find the happy medium with a pretty palette and selection of patterns that work great together or apart and four box shapes to accommodate a number of shapes and sizes.
Helen Levi
Beach Series Traditional Mug // Ocean Dinner Plate // Pebble Series Breakfast Bowl // Sunrise Dinner Plates
Stolen Form
Brick Dish // Pipe Espresso / Condiment Cups // Tin Can Mug // Salt & Pepper Pipes
Kaz
Aqua Speckle Bowl // Marble Cheese Platter // Watercolour Moon Platter // Tia Bowl Set
Robert Gordon
Canvas Dinner Plate // Coffee Run Mug Set // Pearl Mug // Merchant Charcoal Bowl
Fenek
Big Salad Bowl // Blue Splattered Espresso Cups // High Plate // Splattered Mug
I’m crazy about the work of Derrick Velasquez! Layers upon layers upon layers of interest.
My most recent work deals with forces projected onto manufactured and industrially engineered materials. Some of these forces are natural, such as an accumulated weight created by gravity, and some are more forced like tension applied by testing an object’s flexibility to its breaking point. The demands put on these materials reveal and obscure structures of both their intended consumer use and the qualities of the material itself. By the use of marine vinyl, masonite, handmade half-scale 2X4s, plywood, and found objects, I aim to question the way we physically interact with the tangible and manufactured structures of everyday life. Through an investigative manipulation that observes and skews nominal measurements, my work teases out our psychological relation to the dimensions and conditions given by such materials.
Cape Town-based Kirsten Lilford takes everyday photos of family outings, domestic scenes, and suburban landscapes and transforms them into paintings with uncanny and slightly sinister tones. Her work is definitely reminiscent of early 19th century realists, but with a unique style of her own.
Have you spruced up your outdoor space for summer living? I’ve done lots in the yard, but need to tackle the deck with the power washer this weekend. I also need to pick up a few accessories, and I’ve got my eye on these powder-coated steel Poppy outdoor oil lamps. A field full of poppy flowers inspired their streamlined shape and design, available as a table lamp, a floor lamp, or a lawn light that attaches to the ground with a pin.
Alana Copper Round Mirror by Made
Mirrors are one of the best ways to make any space feel larger and more open, all thanks to illusion of course. Grab one with a great frame or in an interesting shape and it may as well be a piece of art as well. My goal is to have one in every room of my home by year’s end – all that’s left are the dining room and the kitchen!
Anni Oversized Wooden Circle Mirror from Urban Outfitters
Bronson Mirror from Anthropologie
Chambers Mirror by Croft House
Curved Cutaway Floor Mirror from West Elm
Diamond Brass Wall Mirror from CB2
Industrial metal + Wood Floor Mirror from West Elm
Large Rattan Wall Mirror from Urban Poppy
Porthole Gold Round Wall Mirror from CB2
Recessed Wall Mirror from West Elm
Shield Mirror from Jayson Home
Woodlyn Standing Storage Mirror from Urban Outfitters
Posted In house and home, living, walls
If science textbook-meets-carnival sideshow subject matter is your jam, then you’ll be into Juan Osorno‘s style without question. His intricate pencil illustrations depict natural elements like plant life, outer space, and the human body, but partners them together in the most unexpected ways.
