The Marimekko exhibit at Seattle’s Nordic Heritage museum:
“As long as I have a brush in front of me, I’m alright.” Maud Lewis
Heard on NPR just today; http://www.npr.org/2017/06/19/532816482/home-is-where-the-art-is-the-unlikely-story-of-folk-artist-maud-lewis . A woman after my own heart; before my own art.
On Beauty
“…beauty ignites the desire for truth…”
“…beauty brings copies of itself into being.”
from On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
The roads we travel
Getting ready for June Arts Fair
Black and Latina Girls Matter
Ceramic Beauties
To hold them is a pleasure. To drink from them delightful. From a friend who got them at Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon. The artist is Barb Campbell. See http://www.barbcampbellceramics.com.
Radish on blue&white plate
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Day of Postcards
14 March 2017: on this day (and evening!) of postcard writing, a postcard view of mountains, rivers and roads. Cascadia, perhaps.
Hope (and not despair)
Hope and despair are surely themes throughout civilization (and evidenced in art). An uplifting take: https://medium.com/@abby.brockman/despair-is-not-a-strategy-15-principles-of-hope-deba7ac2cb29#.tc7weoipt
