• Hi @ayjay, grateful blog reader here. šŸ‘‹ I’ve seen your string of Dorothy Sayers posts and wanted to pass on a link to this show in case you haven’t seen it. Pretty interesting concept for a show all around, but I wasn’t expecting to see a dedicated Sayers section!

  • the tatted postage experiment begins … šŸ§¶šŸ–¼ļø

    Aqua-colored postcard with a stamp and a cream tatted lace edging around it (front)Aqua-colored postcard with a cream tatted lace edging around it (back)

  • šŸŽµ Listening: Air for Violin and Piano by Aaron Jay Kernis.

    Really happy to rediscover this today. For me, it’s in a sweet spot of twentieth-century Classical music where every beautiful chord feels hard-won. But really, what a wistful and beautiful piece!

  • A pile of tatting. 🧶

  • Wow!! This wood carving! www.julienfeller.com

  • One of today’s best finds at the Met: a box made mostly from thin translucent panels of amber. (!!!) Just incredible. (Didn’t get any more details about where/when it was made, unfortunately, but somewhere in Northern Europe, at least a hundred years ago)

    Small ornate chest in a museum, with lid propped open, made of panels of amber with light coming through

  • Tatting update 🧶 (following this fantastic pattern by Robin Perfetti)

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    A few years in, this album still holds up! Such fun, joyous tracks 😌

    joeyalexander.bandcamp.com/track/our…

  • I’m quite pleased with how this plastic heat-bending job turned out! (The pieces aren’t finished yet, but this was the major roadblock step) šŸŽØ

    hand holding a yellow plastic rod bent into a square, against the backdrop of a cluttered studio

  • While I’m thinking about less-famous paintings, here’s my favorite John Singer Sargent painting (and also one of my favorite landscapes ever) šŸŽØ

    Simplon Pass, 1911, at the US National Gallery of Art

  • I’ve already thought that Edvard Munch gets short shrift when people only know him for The Scream, but yesterday I was introduced to yet another (really beautiful) facet of his work šŸŽØ

    h/t Robin Sloan’s fabulous newsletter

  • A pretty remarkable article:

    mbird.com/the-magaz…

  • Commute

    Landscape photo with church steeple and smokestack standing out against the horizon, viewed across the top of a buildingPhoto of buildings against the sky, with a swirl of clouds in the corner

  • Petals fallen onto the plants below them feels like a natural version of abstraction … at least to this abstract painter!

  • golden moment in downtown Brooklyn

  • Whew, doing this with thick wire is another level! šŸŽØšŸŽØ

  • Just a lovely little composition I walked by:

  • … and, šŸŽØ Day 30!! Interactive toy-like projects lead us back to my latest book, which is also a playable marble maze. Here’s a (rough-cut!) video:

  • šŸŽØ Day 29
    Light Toys, 2019 Here I was trying to make objects which could be played with—but which didn’t read so explicitly as childlike.

  • šŸŽØ Day 28
    I followed up the last installation by making a set of extra-fancy building blocks … but I wanted to leave the funnest part—putting them together—entirely up to viewers and not to me. Here are some of the setups my classmates made:

  • šŸŽØ Day 27
    Pipe Game. An installation for one of my first grad classes in 2019.

  • šŸŽØ Day 26
    Another break from books. Here’s Refraction, 2020. Acrylic and mixed media on panel. Done for a local 24-hr art contest.

  • šŸŽØ Day 25
    I posted these here a while ago, but I’ll include them again in this context!

    Journals made from the scrap papers, prints, and project remains I’ve accumulated over the years—though, as usually happens, most of them also needed some brand-new stuff to conplete them.

  • šŸŽØ Day 24–a quick break from books, since the last couple are more complicated to post.

    Paper Space IV, 2021 Mixed media

  • šŸŽØ Day 23
    Electronic puzzle book project, which … was too overwhelming to finish šŸ™ƒ

    Sensors & lights are hidden in the pages, so the book develops as you solve puzzles—hopefully kind of like magic!

    Here’s the back 😬 but pretty sure I’ll return to the idea sometime!

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