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Really enjoyed listening to the Tuva Halse Quintet these last couple weeks … that trumpet/violin blend!! š Another gem from Bandcampās monthly ābest ofā posts.
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Wow, the last 2 minutes of this video! I love the way these musicians work together (and canāt wait for them to come back to US on tour sometime)
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Anyone have advice about a good color desktop printer? Looking for fairly high quality, to print out things like cards, zines, and booklets. Older/ādumberā models preferable because Iād like one without its own app, AI features, etc. if possible š
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the tatted postage experiment begins … š§¶š¼ļø
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šµ Listening: Air for Violin and Piano by Aaron Jay Kernis.
Really happy to rediscover this today. For me, itās in a sweet spot of twentieth-century Classical music where every beautiful chord feels hard-won. But really, what a wistful and beautiful piece!
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A pile of tatting. š§¶
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Wow!! This wood carving! www.julienfeller.com
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One of todayās best finds at the Met: a box made mostly from thin translucent panels of amber. (!!!) Just incredible. (Didnāt 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 š§¶ (following this fantastic pattern by Robin Perfetti)
A few years in, this album still holds up! Such fun, joyous tracks š
Iām quite pleased with how this plastic heat-bending job turned out! (The pieces arenāt finished yet, but this was the major roadblock step) šØ
While Iām thinking about less-famous paintings, hereās my favorite John Singer Sargent painting (and also one of my favorite landscapes ever) šØ
Simplon Pass, 1911, at the US National Gallery of Art
Iāve 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 šØ
h/t Robin Sloanās 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! šØšØ
Just a lovely little composition I walked by:
… and, šØ Day 30!! Interactive toy-like projects lead us back to my latest book, which is also a playable marble maze. Hereās a (rough-cut!) video:
šØ Day 29
Light Toys, 2019 Here I was trying to make objects which could be played withābut which didnāt read so explicitly as childlike.
šØ Day 28
I followed up the last installation by making a set of extra-fancy building blocks … but I wanted to leave the funnest partāputting them togetherāentirely up to viewers and not to me. Here are some of the setups my classmates made:
šØ Day 27
Pipe Game. An installation for one of my first grad classes in 2019.
šØ Day 26
Another break from books. Hereās Refraction, 2020. Acrylic and mixed media on panel. Done for a local 24-hr art contest.
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