This weekend has just flown by - but then, what a weekend it has been! I have so much to tell you and so many photographs to show you so give me a couple days to write a good post. I hope you had a fabulous weekend, too.
Photo: a beautiful girl waiting for a train, NYC subway.
Busy as a bee. Tomorrow I will be heading into New York to meet up with two friends for a day of wandering and photography. I've been looking forward to this day for a while now. And what gorgeous weather we've had out here on the east coast - all blue skies and sunshine. Ahhhh! I'll catch up with you this weekend!
Listening to this bloggergal's music playlist this morning. Her paintings are beautiful and her writing often makes me laugh and then, shake my head with wonder. She is one talented woman.
photo: under the highway overpass near where I live.
The sun is shining brightly in my part of the world this morning, spreading light and warmth over the carpet and onto the furniture in my apartment. Ahhhh... I've been feeling quiet and creative these last couple of days. Ideas for paintings and photographs have been coming to mind and spilling onto paper and then into reality through my new digital camera. I decided to photograph a dream I had a week or so back...of a kitestring of black hearts rising from my sister's coat. I used myself as the model, running back and forth from pressing the shutter release on the camera's timer (8 seconds) to where I should be in the photograph. It put me into such a great headspace - letting go and concentrating on that moment. I like the images from this shoot although a reshoot is in order as my current images aren't as large as I'd like them to be. I'll have to finish reading my digital camera's manual for the how-to on size options. Anyway, you know how it is...you start with one idea and that leads to another idea...
Also, my friend Laurie's movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film this year. It didn't win last night but it was pretty darn cool to see a little puppet version of my friend on the big screen during the awards broadcast. Here's an interview she recently did for The Toronto Star. Congratulations, Laurie, you talented woman you!
Today found me sitting in a cafe, catching up with a good friend. Almost two months had slipped by since our last get together and it was such a pleasure to sit down for a coffee and a chat. We should do this more often, R.
Yesterday I had mentioned that I was feeling a bit bored with my surroundings so on the drive home I decided to make a conscious effort to find something that I could photograph. This is what I found...
I'm home now and snowflakes have begun falling against the grey late afternoon sky outside my window. Bjork is singing in the background and I've been playing with images on the surface of my encaustic painting. I like where it's heading...I just have to figure out which way to go before I commit to oil paints or to etching into the wax...what to do...
This has been a good January day.
A photo of a vine I took during a hike on Sunday; a page from one of my Vogue Italia magazines. Despite being a consistently broke art student back in the day, I used to collect that magazine every month. The photographs were always so inspiring and one of my dreams in life was to one day have my own images published in that magazine. The photograph of the couples dancing is by the American fashion photographer, Steven Meisel. His work is always original. I can still remember seeing my first Steven Meisel spread - a series of fashion portraits of a model wearing the most perfect makeup and 1940's dresses. I still have the dog-eared magazine issue. Anyway, I thought of this particular photography spread when I was looking through the photos I took during my hike on Sunday. These vines are everywhere in New Jersey, weighing down trees, reminding me of music, twisting limbs and heavy embraces.
