Art + Word

Artist of the Day: Be Alive - Bonny Gorsuch

BE ALIVE Original Fabric Collage 182 of 366

Pink Dress & LUCKY DOG Original Fabric Collage 294 of 366

be alive

pink dress & lucky dog

Has it been difficult for you to get started on a good foot in 2013? Me too.
When it is this cold, I can't kick start my joie de vivre, and my motivation and ambition run and hide under a pile of warm covers.

What to do?

Be alive. How about instead of waiting for the sun's return, each of us find something that brings us back to life. I am casting about for a project that will brighten these dark winter days.

I believe it is time for another voodoo collage.

I chose Cannon Beach, Oregon artist Bonny Gorsuch's fiber collage Be Alive because it made me smile today, and Lucky Dog because I am missing my black dog, Ellie. It's been a week.
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artist bio: Who would have guessed that making tiny Troll clothes back in the 60's would be the beginning of where I am today? Thank you Mrs. Felix at Live Oak Park in Manhattan Beach, California for teaching me some tricks of the trade! Today, I create green-inspired and altered wearable art clothing (my line is called Random Scraps of Fabric), collages, banners and assemblages from found objects, vintage fabrics and textiles. My materials are always 100% recycled and pre-loved. I love anything old and unusual. See my website www.mybonny.com.

Artist of the Day: Daily Drawing Practice - Patti Roberts-Pizzuto

January 7, 2013 / Daily Ink Wash Drawing

january 7, 2013 patti roberts-pizzuto

May 30, 2012 / Daily Drawing On Teabag

may 30, 2012

october 16, 2012

march 21, 2012

Daily challenge projects like this by Vermillion, South Dakota artist Patti Roberts-Pizzuto inspire me to make my work a practice, something that I work at every single day, rather than waiting for inspiration or time or the stars to align. Speaking of inspiration, how could you not be inspired to make art your daily practice when you live in a town called Vermillion?

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artist bio: I am an artist, still somewhat new to South Dakota, having moved here from Sarasota, Florida in 2005. My husband and I are both artists (he's a printmaking professor at USD) and our home/studio is located just outside Vermillion, South Dakota on the banks of the Missouri River. I enjoy the magic of the creative process....a kind of alchemy that allows something to come from almost nothing. I am interested in time, memory and our personal and collective histories....it's all we have and every bit of it precious. A drawing a day....a way to mark time.

Artist of the Day: Dewey Decimal Vintage Card Catalog Necklace - Written Nerd

Dewey Decimal Vintage Card Catalog Women's Glass Mini Pendant Necklace

dewey decimal vintage card catalog necklace writtennerd

Book hoarder/lover that I am, I love this entire site.

This artist did not have a bio, so I created one.
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artist bio: Alameda, California based artist/jeweler/rebel Written Nerd is a former librarian who refused to recycle the beloved card catalogs when libraries the world over transitioned from book catalogs to computer catalogs. Instead, Written Nerd lovingly and obsessively collected card catalogs, which are now stored in thousands of packing boxes, and placed according to the Dewey Decimal Classification, in Written Nerd's residence: closets (100), under the bed (300), bathroom (500), home office (700), bookshelves (800), on top & under kitchen table (900), and stored in far too many storage units to begin to count.

from the site's description: Get nerdy the cute way! This necklace is made with a 3/4" glass dome, under which is featured Dewey Decimal numbers from vintage library catalog cards.

Write 2013

Pocket Moleskine, Modern Hand-Lettering, Small Writing Journal, White Ink on Black, A Word After A Word is Power, Atwood Quote

Hand-Lettered Mini Journal, Modern Calligraphy and Capitals, Small Moleskine Cahier, White Ink on Dark Red, There is No Greater Agony

Hand-Lettered Pocket Moleskine . Modern Calligraphy . Small Writing Journal . White Ink on Black . Write What Should Not Be Forgotten

Hand-Lettered Pocket Journal . Modern Calligraphy and Capitals . Small Moleskine Cahier . White Ink on Dark Red . Gift for Him or Her

SparrowNestScript

I chose these quotes as inspiration for the 2013 year of writing.

I am writing longhand in notebooks to keep myself from editing, from getting mired in perfectionism, and from falling down the Internet rabbit hole.

I haven't decided yet, but think I am going to start another blog to post what I have written and keep it separate from what I post here.

Either that, or I'll type it up and put it in the cloud. With the first week of the year winding down, I'll make a decision this weekend.

Belated Holiday Card

card front

card back

envelope

I sent my holiday cards out very, very late, so I'm posting it late, as well.

This year I made both the envelope and card from collages. The envelope is traditional images of Mary. The card is my interpretation of the traditional Nativity narrative and poem Altars of Light, which serve as a theme for the year.

Altars of Light
Pierre Joris

If the light is the soul then soul is what's all around me. It is you, it is around you too, it is you. The darkness is inside me, the opaqueness of organs folded upon organs-- to make light in the house of the body-- thus to bring the outside in, the impossible job. And the only place to become the skin the border, the inbetween, where dark meets light, where I meets you. In the house of world the many darknesses are surrounded by light. To see the one, we need the other / it cuts both ways light on light is blind dark on dark is blind light through dark is not dark through light is movement dark through light becomes, is becoming, to move through light is becoming, is all we can know.

Artist of the Day: Space Coffee - Osnat Feitelson

space coffee osnat feitelson yaron mendelovici

Over the holiday break, I read that CERN, the organization that brought us the God Particle in 2012, is now claiming that time travel is a possibility in the not too distant future.

Truth really is stranger than fiction, (or in this case, science fiction).

It's beyond imagination that we'll be able to travel to the past, the future, to other worlds, especially when you look at the current state of affairs the world over.

A quick trip back to Caligula's Rome, Attila's fifth century, Genghis Khan's Middle Ages, Torquemada's Middle Ages, or the Crusades, the Borgia's Renaissance, the century of genocide, wars 1000 to present, just may save us from our ignorance, religious intolerance, and violent tendencies, though.

Nah.

One thing is certain, regardless of advances in technology, humans will always crave good old-fashioned coffee.
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artist bio: Gelada is an Indy design studio, we make our Tshirts from the best materials (100% organic cotton & Viscose) all the designs are limited. The design & total feel of our stuff is a throwback to your favourite Tshirt thats been in your closet for years. Gelada is a fair trade clan, we make our own Tshirts, creating a new past, The way of the Future.

Resolutions 2013

declare

emily mcdowell

This year I will let go of perfectionism & embrace finishing a shitty first draft of the novel. I will honor my own voice and love my imperfections. I will stand up & share my writing with the world.

believe