Joko....are you out there?

my email to you is not working....

christian boltanski

christian boltanski is an interesting fellow. if you are intrigued by the tate interview and have an hour to spare, watch this.


installation centro galego de arte contemporaneo, santiago de compostela

the antidote

help is on the way....

bea valdes

another beautiful, but unfortunately flash website. bea valdes. love the color sense.

lindsay feuer

lindsay feuer. pretty.

no squirrel sandwich today

i personally know someone who was in the business of trading fried squirrel sandwiches for peanut butter sandwiches in his school lunchroom. in his large farming family, you ate what you shot in the woods and when you were a grade schooler, this meant lots of squirrel and rabbit. this squirrel has planned a different kind of lunchtime routine. this squrrel has an announcement. there will be no squirrel sandwich today.




again, this is sparkly in person. this also has a tiny bit of interesting history regarding the little blue electrical bit in the foreground. i grabbed a handful of these that were being replaced at the studio where my husband often works. turns out, they are from the console he used to record purple rain. perhaps this one should be called the squirrel formerly known as sandwich.

parma lilac

parma lilac. it is a beautiful, all flash (ugh) website.

lelia wescott's broken heart

i have had, as you see here, a very difficult time photographing lelia's broken heart. this is the most sparkly lamp i have made and it somehow comes off as dull. the deer and cupie are shiny, the glass ampoule of sutures is shiny, the spots on one of the dice are shiny, the pyrite (fools gold) is shiny.... in any event, you will just have to imagine it sparkling as you look.

michele oka doner

there is the BEST article in the new york social diary featuring the home of michele oka doner. her live/work space is absolutely incredible. i had to copy the whole thing and save it so i can pour over and over it. what a fantastic body of work she continues to create in that beautiful studio. i can not imagine anything better.


stairs to the loft



the working studio



the library!!


work c.1964 - 1980


from exhibition c.1980s


current work

i can't get over it. i want to hug it. i want to touch everything. i would probably pass out.
all photographs new york social diary.

beth cavener stitcher

olympia


seven year cycle

her statement reads in part, "i want to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human. the figures are feral and uneasy, expressing frustration for the human tendency towards cruelty and lack of understanding. entangled in their own internal and external struggles, the figures are engaged with the subjects of fear, apathy, violence and powerlessness." i think she succeeds. i want to like it, but i feel uncomfortable. beth cavener stitcher


object lesson: apathy

need it

woven in violet and blue at svensk hemslöjd by berit koenig. sweden circa 1950. this and other beauties available at jp willborg.

lelia wescott's broken heart

lelia kept me up very late. she is almost done.

stefan diez

i love to peruse the website of munich designer stefan diez". he shows his prototypes and some of the process of his work. i love to see the process. i find it really exciting...and speaking of exciting, how would you like thonet to come on over and test your prototypes as seen above. that has got to be a good day in anyone's book. i first looked stefan up when i saw his shuttle canisters for rosenthal (below). i think they look great.

untitled

the chicken suit is finished but untitled. he hates this suit and fought it the whole way. he says he's allergic. as you see below, i can not take all the credit for the lamps. my husband is the d in dna and sits next to me on the floor making the lamps. we pass them back and forth. please notice the hot soldering iron on the only pedigreed piece of furniture we own. go ahead and ask me how i feel about that.

kitchen indeed

the kitchen of robin standefer and stephen alesch in a studio off the bowery. love it. via new york home design.

graham caldwell

the eyes



self propagating trap


elizabeth's tears

i LOVE glass and i am feeling this work by graham caldwell. i need a room divider of carefully balanced glass. i really do. it is sharp and dangerous and very, very pretty.