oh the palette...be still my heart.

Artist Langdon Graves makes work that is gorgeously pale and soft but seemingly strong as well.
Her delicate drawings remind me of the hand of artist Joan Linder, and they use negative space similarly... but the subject seems so much about loss of something, of what I do not know, but I see a loss and sadness in each and every drawing.





Her soft sculptures evoke thoughts of a Dr. Seuss laboratory of medicine...
and remind me of the shapes and weight of the work of Eva Hesse.


A fantastical lab of magic machines that both invite and fascinate as well as horrify.

I really enjoy her use of textures, color and found objects... I have a feeling I will be seeing much more of her work in the future and so will you.

finally done and ready to ship.

I hope the recipient, whomever she is, loves them and enjoys them as much as I have loved making them for her...

beautiful weekend.

love and laughter.

warm light, an inviting bed...and a huge hot bath.

gorgeous views and deep breathes.

and quality time.

the most beautiful day.

the day of our marriage began a successions of most beautiful days...but it was indeed a beautiful, perfect, blessed day.
And though C sometimes drives me nuts, makes me mad, and is simply far from perfect...
( an we all know neither am I.)
as my sister said "I would not trade him for anything even with all that."

and it is true I love him as much now as the day I married him, actually I love him more.
visit here for more.

something about these images...

makes my heart skip a beat... I cannot say that I love all the images in this show...
but some of the images by artist Jean-Luc Mylayne are so emotionally evocative and in a very quiet way sad. But they are definitely beautiful.

and I can only imagine how much more beautiful they are on the super large scale that they are printed at. I will just have to take a trip to Chelsea to see these and some other work that I have been reading about in the next few weeks.

cannot wait to be here...

Look where I am going this weekend to celebrate my anniversary.
I am so excited to be surrounded by the beauty, the calm, and then... to take the ferry out into the ocean to block island and ride around all day on a little moped...
all with my C.

I am counting down until Friday at 6...or maybe 7 (cause we will be out of traffic by then)

I love this...

but of course no info to be found on the artists, Peter Fillingham & Charlotte Moth who made this work at Cell Project Space.

But don't you love it and can't you tell why I do?

what do you think?

My colleague just introduced me to German artist Alexandra Bircken's work and I just can't decide if I love her work or not...
but I am definitely interested to see it and know it and understand it more.

I wish I could find more info on her approach and concept as that would help me understand how to read it. Her web presence is minimal and a fair amount of it is in German, too bad I am not bilingual. So if any one know any good resources????

What do you think?

speaking of lovers in bed...

this was taken a few weeks ago and has grown so much in the last few.
I cannot wait to see it completed.

Just so you can start to envision this work.
It will be this pillowcase with a pillow in it next to the matching, but blank pillowcase
on a shelf.
As if it was the top of a made bed.

I really do believe it will be a lovely piece.
And i really hope it will be complete before the end of the year...

lovers in bed...

I met artist Kate Teale a few years ago and and that time I did not have a huge response to her work. But through those years my work as turned more and more towards my inner life, my marriage, and most specifically the importance of the moments I experience in my bed.


So I am sure you can see why I am suddenly very drawn to her work, her subject, and her hand.
Her images are unfriendly to being dragged and dropped to my desktop so please take the time to visit her website so that you can really see her work...

I love how it seems her husband sleeps in the same position nightly.

Maybe I should try to get her to do a studio visit with me?