one of my treasures

'the sensual home'

by Ilse Crawford

'Art is a way of making sense of the world. Invest in a piece that you really like, and place it somewhere you can see it just haning around, rather than grandly on snow. Good art is not just for the rich. Put aside a little money each month and but something once a year. Don't worry about whether it is "right." Go to galleries, art school shows, flea markets, and auctions. Buy something that touches you.'- <p96> the sensual home

focus

Everything turns on how you adjust the focus of a camera.

inspiration

Open Studios Cornwall - Mel Sheridan from Open Studios Cornwall on Vimeo.




Beyond the Gallery - Leon Loughridge, woodblock artist from Zach Wolfson on Vimeo.




Anja Percival: Printmaker from Aaron Carr on Vimeo.





Sewn Clever from Greg Loza on Vimeo.

perfect peace

{Perfect Peace by Laura Story}




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Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And battered by the shocks of doom
To shape and use.




God gives us a vision, and then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of that vision. It is in the valley that so many of us give up and faint. Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience. Just think of the enormous amount of free time God has! He is never in a hurry. Yet we are always in such a frantic hurry. While still in the light of the glory of the vision, we go right out to do things, but the vision is not yet real in us. God has to take us into the valley and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the point where He can trust us with the reality of the vision. Ever since God gave us the vision, He has been at work. He is getting us into the shape of the goal He has for us, and yet over and over again we try to escape from the Sculptor’s hand in an effort to batter ourselves into the shape of our own goal.
----- utmost.org

:: have a peaceful weekend :: 





Liz Danzico

"The people that I respect the most,

the people who are doing great things,

are people who care so much about what they do

that they can’t stop." – Liz Danzico

on your way here, an interview magazine from Dave Dawson.

Spring will come before long

:: music by Carola Häggkvist 'Blott En Dag (day by day)'

:: styled by {studio S}

attraction

Last night,

the moon was very bright and shining in the frosty sky like as...

an eye of dragon.

layer,layer,,, the layer of images

I was amazed at what I saw every morning this week.

The impacted shadows,
the mass of foliages,
the images of the layer of trees,
and the particular quality of light in the view
was producing a harmony of shape and texture.