Bargello textiles: reductionism
Simplicity of form in this fragment, …references a paring down of motifs to their geometric basics. That idea has proliferated in textile patterning not just since the 1920’s (Bauhaus and Art Deco), but certainly from the ‘Biedermeier’ era…
fancy vs reason
for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
Bargello textiles: red brocade
Florentine textile collections, the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence.
Spider Orchid?: NY Botanical Gardens
it reminds me of the critically-endangered ‘Spider Orchid’, a species of orchid native to Australian
Malcolm McLaren
‘to create anything you had to believe in failure simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear’
Slipper Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens
The foliage around these orchids is rich, damp and green. Moss forests, waxy, waving leaves and miniature, curling fern-tendrils allude to a vast miniature world ready to be explored.
Butterfly Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens
Another gem from the Orchid Show, New York Botanical Gardens.
This is a Butterfly Orchid; Psychopsis Kalihi, native to Trinidad, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.
Living Jade; the pea family visits the Orchid Show
It is certainly not everyday that one sees a flower with petals in such a hue. The stems are equally enchanting in a vibrant spectrum of purple, lilac, lavender and blue all melting into each other.
compelled to make marks: Ingres; Line
The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings.
compelled to make marks: a classical perspective
I’ve been thinking on the question of what compels me to draw. This has led to questioning what has moved other artists to pick up …