Reverse Graffiti

Reverse Graffiti?

Yes, it's graffiti in reverse, because instead of applying spray paint, artists take away material to create the art piece. It becomes a bit political due to it's method. Topics such as pollution come up, when filthy tunnels are wiped clean into shapes of skulls. The authorities may complain, but what can they do when these artists are simply cleaning the city walls? Paul "Moose" Curtis is a pioneer of the form. "Once you do this," he says, "you make people confront whether or not they like people cleaning walls or if they really have a problem with personal expression."

Deep.

Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring. By Scott Wade.

Just as I am a fan of graffiti, I might be a bigger fan of this. There isn't anything illegal about it, and yet artists can spread their messages to the masses. Public art is fantastic, but waiting for commissions and grants can be arduous. There's always a way to speak out and let your voice be heard (1st Amendment anyone?) and I just love that people are so awesome as to figuring out ways to maneuver around certain obstacles that may be in their ways.

Yeah, it's an ad, but the message is great, and here's Moose in action:

More Art

"Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday" - Victor Burgin

Words and images as art. Fly-posting 500 copies...

Things I Love

An orange juicer with holes so that it drips into the pitcher. Looks Mexican!

Gorgeous towels. If I had my own house and money I'd get these towels!

I was shopping today, searching for wedding dresses for my half-brother's wedding. He's about forty, and it'll be in Indiana. My mom and I went into Anthropologie, one of my favorite stores. And, as I a sculpture artist I really must comment on how great their creative displays are! In the window behind and surrounding the maniquins is a flowing tubular sculpture of wicker strips, bulging in and out. It looked like an abstract extension form of a tribal fish catching contraption. I am very attracted to multiples and sticks and wood things especially. Inside there was another linear flowing form reaching from the floor to the ceiling. This one was contrived with multiple rolled up pieces of paper. Shaped like trumpets. The ends which faced front had been dipped in different shades of blue. It was watery, delicate and beautiful. Who makes these!?

Anthropologie is like a homestyle country, meets bohemian type of store. The stuff can be pricey, but a lot of it seems to be worth it, when the materials are so soft...you know?

The bedding is the softest, and it seems to be such great material and make. I would love to buy that bedding in a beautiful white.

NOTE: When I think about shopping for my home (to come one day) I see myself going to great big flea markets and finding one of a kind pieces, vintage etc., to put in my home with love and care. I'm out to find the most interesting, and unique bits. I want to surround myself with love, what I really love most. People and things.

Contemporary Art

Yo.

I'm starting a website, and it will include an array of inspiring artists and their art from mostly the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I want to also include a space to explore crafts and indigenous arts from cultures across the globe, and into historical times from basket weaving, to body tattoos. In my research thus far I've experienced a lot of fantastic art. One piece of the art world I will tap into here today includes a family of artists. They operate together under the name Boyle Family. This clan included. Mark Boyle and Joan Hills and their children Sebastian and Georgia.

Boyle Family aims to make art that does not exclude anything as a potential subject. Over the years, subjects have included: earth, air, fire and water; animals, vegetables, minerals; insects, reptiles, water creatures; human beings and societies; physical elements and fluids from the human body. The media used have included performances and events; films and projections; sound recordings; photography; electron-microphotography; drawing; assemblage; painting; sculpture and installation.

They were also making up the light and stage shows for Jimi Hendrix back in the day.

....in their work they try to isolate and reduce randomly chosen elements to as truthful an approximation as is within their power.

Their work is largely about trying to release themselves and their audience from pre-conditioning or prejudice.

‘We also want to be able to look at anything without discovering in it our mothers' womb, our lovers' thighs, the possibility of handsome profit or even the makings of an effective work of art. We don't want to find in it memories of places where we suffered joy and anguish or tenderness or laughter. We want to see without motive and without reminiscence this cliff, this street, this field, this rock, this earth.’

Today

I started my blog awhile ago, hoping that my posts would attract people eventually. That was long ago, and I had stopped writing. Still, no followers. My brother suggested following other folks', so I clicked on a few last night. Then I started to become overwhelmingly inspired by a lot of, mostly women's, blogs full of clear photos, fashion, cupcakes, and arts and crafts! This morning I felt that I needed to up my anti! Well I am overwhelmed. There is so much to be inspired about. There are a million beautiful photos I could re-post, and numerous bits of information I could write about. So much in this world and beyond that is wonderful. I'd like to blog about what is most meaningful to me, and that is what I have been doing. I realize that my ideas may be a bit controversial. When I get down to my beliefs they may be shocking. Yet, I hope they are inspiring for some. So, I'll just hold off and not get too overwhelmed. I will wait for the inspiration to spark my brain.

Thanks for coming by Today

Africa

Visions of African plains. The sun sets large, round, and red seemingly melting the dusty ground. The acacia trees run parallel to the lines of oily heat in the air. Giraffe profiles become dark as do the tops of the trees. Warm and peaceful. The simplicity creates more space for the awe in our hearts.

The beginnings of humanity will become the end...FULL CIRCLE, always.

This is the way it is, the way it will be. We all come from Africa, it is everybody's homeland. We must care for ourselves. We are all humanity.

NAMASTE.

Namaste is a wonderful word. It is a greeting and a salutation and a meditation. It is an understanding also. The true nature of life is within this word, in a sense. Namaste can be translated in different ways. I believe it to mean that My Inner Essence acknowledges Yours. And, these essences within you, me, and everyone alive is equal and peaceful, beautiful, and perfect. It is also one with the universe!

Speaking of the Universe....I've started to read a new book, just out, called "Before the Big Bang, The Prehistory of Our Universe." It's very interesting. Brian Clegg, the author offers a lot of the scientific history of cosmology, including Greek and Egyptian mythology. The most important aspect to remember, as he explains, is that all science is just theory, even when hypotheses are proven they are still ideas tested within relative limits. Therefore, science has evolved and theories have changed and been replaced. The Big Bang theory, Clegg says, was formulated by a Catholic Priest originally and the concept is very similar to the Biblical Creation story. Very interesting stuff.

And, recently I found this following video on NPR.org. This seems to show a new solar system emerging within our Milky Way. So, a new sun, a new earth may be coming into existence not so far away. Maybe some of us will go over there and help humans not repeat some of our mistakes this time! Check out the whole article:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125322033