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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)
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Tatting update 🧶 (following this fantastic pattern by Robin Perfetti)
A few years in, this album still holds up! Such fun, joyous tracks 😌
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) 🎨
While I’m thinking about less-famous paintings, here’s my favorite John Singer Sargent painting (and also one of my favorite landscapes ever) 🎨
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 🎨
h/t Robin Sloan’s fabulous newsletter
A pretty remarkable article:
Commute
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! 🎨🎨
Just a lovely little composition I walked by:
… and, 🎨 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:
🎨 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.
🎨 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:
🎨 Day 27
Pipe Game. An installation for one of my first grad classes in 2019.
🎨 Day 26
Another break from books. Here’s Refraction, 2020. Acrylic and mixed media on panel. Done for a local 24-hr art contest.
🎨 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.
🎨 Day 24–a quick break from books, since the last couple are more complicated to post.
Paper Space IV, 2021 Mixed media
🎨 Day 23
Electronic puzzle book project, which … was too overwhelming to finish 🙃
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!
🎨 Day 22
Project for a “star book” format class assignment. This one’s a personal favorite—and also cool to see how, though the playground theme seemed more isolated at the time, it’s coming back in more of my work now.
🎨 Day 21
S’more, an oldie but goodie
🎨 Day 20
Light Book, 2019
Plastic and … a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff
🎨 Day 19 —now onto books! One of my favorite mediums that I keep returning to every now and then, bringing new materials, knowledge or ideas I’ve absorbed in the meantime. Here’s something less formal—a journal I made for a friend with a pop-up sewn into it:
🎨 Day 18
Shaft, 2019 Acrylic and colored pencil on canvas
As I was making the Hope Series paintings, people kept telling me they’d love to see a bigger one. So finally I did! (this is 60.5” x 60.5”)
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