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Yoko Ono created An Invisible Flower when she was just nineteen years old, at the very start of her artistic career. Recently rediscovered in her archive by her son, Sean Lennon, who also provides a foreword, this jewel of a book tells the heartwarming story of the invisible beauty we all know is there—and of the one man, "Smelty John", who catches sight of it. Written years before Ono met John Lennon, An Invisible Flower offers a glimpse into the early process of a brilliant conceptual artist and, it will transpire, presages the love of her life. Simple pastel drawings complement the book's affirming message, and a new afterword by Ono makes this small treasure even more special.

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I saw this in Barnes and Nobles almost 4 years ago.

Still can’t forget how poetic and simple it is. I too, would like to write and illustrate a book! I guess it never hurt to look back on my previous writings and start from there...

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Christo and Jeanne Claude

Big Air Package, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, 2010-13 http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/projects/big-air-package#.VsvJ5pN96Ho

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Two of my favorite artists!

An admirer of the extraordinary environmental artworks by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Schulz paid tribute to the artists in this 1978 Peanuts comic strip.

Twenty-five years later, Christo returned the compliment by creating Wrapped Snoopy House, a life-sized doghouse wrapped in tarpaulin, polyethylene, and ropes, and presenting it to Jean Schulz for permanent display at the Museum.

http://schulzmuseum.org/explore/permanent-exhibition/

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Great piece by an Australian artist, David Rosetzky.

“Rosetzky's captivating works have been exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally. Gaps embodies Rosetzky's ongoing exploration of personal identity and the relationship - or 'gaps' - between self and other through speech, movement and dance.”

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THE COMMON SENSE

Ann Hamilton’s exhibition at Henry Art Gallery 

Had my portrait taken and participated in the Henry Art Gallery as an audience and a contributor. Thank you for such a wonderful show and exhibit, it's very poetic and socially engaging! Should have been a reader/scribe but I was in a rush. more: http://readers-reading-readers.tumblr.com

https://henryart.org/exhibitions/ann-hamilton-the-common-sense

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The Red Balloon / LE BALLON ROUGE 1956

by Albert Lamorisse. This is an all time classic, and beautiful. 

faithful. strangers. conversations. life.

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Kitasono Katue- Plastic Poetry

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Kitasono Katue's exhibit in LACMA last year was really great.

I really would like to create an online publication that has something to do with art, language, culture, and weaving them altogether with poetry. 

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Many countries’ postal systems have a type of “dead letter office” which handles mail that has been inappropriately addressed and could not be sent. In most cases, if the sender cannot be found the messages are destroyed in order to maintain privacy. The Missing Post Office, on the other hand, welcomes unaddressed ...

Writing letters. Even though you know nobody will write back, it can be therapeutic and productive to write. Teresa Effendi. Reminded me of Lee Ming Wei's Letter Writing Project.

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I really want to travel and make sketches.. and create my own illustration book as a compilation of my "people watching" activity during my travel. Kind of like how these people do it for Louis Vuitton, but less borgeouis. More towards small little details that people don't normally see.

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beyond the world of words, discover enlightenment and liberty

A Book by Emily Dickinson Poems, 1890

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The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion. What I’m saying is that the truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

Sanford Meisner (via conelradstation)

what lies in the core of our creation and our performance is our history, background, and emotion: our true selves as the truth behind them.

artists have no choice but to read their diaries out loud or in silence.

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language and motions through the arts. history and cultural movement in the making.

“I’m not interested in how people move; I’m interested in what makes them move.” Pina Bausch

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Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.

Friedrich Froebel (via exploringthroughplay)