Archive for the ‘Create’ Category
My Pop Art Series
This is part of the Living Atlanta street art series that was done by local artists in 2011, but I have only recently discovered this piece, very close to my office at 34 Peachtree Street. I absolutely love it. So I played with it in Lightroom to my heart’s content, and this is the result. I can’t [...]
January 30th, 2012Single Girl quilt face, done
Me excited to see the quilt in baby-size, 4 complete circles. At this point I had 12 left to combine. This fall I took my first quilt class, at Whipstitch Fabrics in Atlanta, because I wanted to tackle a quilt design based in circular design. In particular, I had long coveted Denyse Schmidt’s Single Girl [...]
December 11th, 2011Among reindeer
Nils Peder kneels among his reindeer This week I have finally been able to open my October and November issues of National Geographic and I was awestruck by the November story on the Sami people of northern Sweden. Their wardrobe and striking faces radiate against the harsh landscape of the region where they live–blanketed all [...]
November 22nd, 2011Arithmetic, for the floor
Stack o’ pink numbers I can finally post pictures of the gift I made for Elodie Watson’s first birthday, since her party was yesterday. She has two math teachers as parents, and so I was struck one night (literally, while driving home around 1 a.m.) that I should make numbers in the same way that [...]
November 20th, 2011“To be off balance but still under control”
Or: too many ideas, a creative explosion, stunning color palettes, African strip quilts, and me Sources of vast inspiration Sometimes, work and play intersect, overlap, combine. For this week’s material culture class, we read four selections, chapters and articles, on design and aesthetic. One of the pieces was a chapter from John M. Vlach’s book [...]
September 23rd, 2011“Art was not separate from everyday experience.”
The face jug is a staple motif in southern folk pottery, portraying the humorous "aesthetic of the ugly." I spent over two hours of pure joy and pleasure this weekend drinking in an exhibit that told its story with folk art: hand crafted chairs, cotton-picking plows and tools, buttons made of sea mussels, the most [...]
September 3rd, 2011Artistry in the world, in our work, in ourselves
“William Morris told us to cease thinking of art as the rarefied expression of a mystically talented few, or as the peculiar possession of rich men. He argued that work is the mother of art, directing our study to carpets as well as paintings, axes as well as statues, and he bade us consider our [...]
August 28th, 2011Making little critters
Izmir the Rabbit I have been on a monster kick, and it all started with one booth in the Earth Angels tent at this year’s Country Living Fair. The 2010 fair was in Stone Mountain, Georgia this year, and it travels the country, so my mom and I figured this was a good opportunity for [...]
December 22nd, 2010Steve McCurry’s Kodachrome career, and legacy
The famous Afghan Girl, taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry You may not recognize the name Steve McCurry, but I bet you have a vivid memory of this photo, and maybe a vague notion of the story behind it. McCurry has made a career out of photographing the world’s faces, many of which have [...]
July 28th, 2010Thousands of tiny stitches: my first quilt
One day in April or May of this year, I was sitting in the living room at my parents’ house perusing some quilt books (my mother owns plenty) when Ben and I came across what would become my summer (and 2009) project. The modern design of the quilt he chose (it was to be his [...]
December 22nd, 2009