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Needing time to find my wings again...

I will be taking some time away from my blog for a bit.  My health has been tattered and frail since November and I am feeling the need to hibernate and be still within.  So often my body tells me when things need to change and often it foretells future leaps and flights.  I am wishing for sunshine, clarity and direction.  

Blessings

Ulla  

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Love...

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“You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

—Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
(1904-1991); Writer, Cartoonist

Fairytale dreaming

I am completely in love with the work of Spanish artist Beatriz Martin Vidal. Her evocative and moody images portray fairytales, myths and other personal inspirations.  A subtle theme of overgrowing foliage runs throughout much of her work, poetically twining between her subjects.  Like dreams - pulling from leaf to leaf...

More work here.

  

   
 

 

1,355 Four Leaf Clovers

These are photos from an album of four leaf clovers collected by Alda Carlson in the 1910's and 1920's.   I sure could use a bit of good luck these days, and this makes me wonder...  can one store luck away in an album to use later?

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Obsession as Art...

"On September 13, 2008, Sagmeister Inc. began the installation of 250,000 Eurocents on Waagdragerhof Square in Amsterdam. Over the course of eight days and with the help of more than 100 volunteers, the coins were sorted into four different shades, and carefully placed over this 300 square meter area, according to a master plan. The coin mural spelled out the sentence, “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better.”

After completion, the coins were left free and unguarded for the public to interact with. Less than 20 hours after the grand opening, a local resident noticed a person bagging the coins and taking them away. Protective of the piece they had watched being created, they call the police. After stopping the “criminal,” the police—in an effort to “preserve the artwork”—swept up every remaining cent and carted them away."

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Serenity...

Bust of a lady, by Francesco Laurna, 1487-88 

Via Seal Maiden's Tumblr

 

Juul's Etherial Drawings

 

The drawings of Dutch artist Juul Kraijer speak to my heart and soul.  Gentle charcoal strokes that are in 'the domain of the spirit, draw images that seem quiet, but are also filled with tension and otherworldliness.  The young girl portrayed in each drawing is transformed - is she human? or is she something else entirely?  

Lovely...  via Hortus Noctis

 

 

 


    

Endangered Fungi

This delightful shelf is called 'Limited Fungi' and was made by Katharina Mischer for Droog Products. When you purchase a shelf, part of the money goes to the environmental projects that try to save the specific fungi species featured.  "A limited design for unlimited life'!  (made of rotten wood, tin and resin)   I can see an entire wall filled with these shelves - creating a personal 'wall of curiosities'...