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Ocean and Beach Posts

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Pale violet from mussel shells. There is something beautiful about color when you know its origins - it was made in the ocean under the waves.

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Hands (of Helen Freeman) c1920  -Alfred Stieglitz

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Yasmin Le Bon | “Go-Sees” (1998-99) © Juergen Teller

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Vera Lair

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Simple Beauty - Plumes & Feathers

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https://www.sightunseen.com/2022/06/the-best-of-the-2022-salone-del-mobile-part-v/

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Igshaan Adams, OBRENGSTE (yield), (wood, plastic, glass, metal and stone beads, polyester and nylon rope, chain, cotton twine), 2021 [«Elephant». Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York, NY. © Igshaan Adams. Photo: Jason Wyche]

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Tough Tailored Poetry - Plumes & Feathers modelling for Khol the Brand.

Ph - François Xavier Antonini

Vogue Polska

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-> Sundays

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© Yiorgos Mavropoulos | Issey Miyake

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Rodney Smith.

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Jackie Winsor. Bound Grid. 1971.

Another Winsor, because I can’t help myself. For those new to the blog, I did work on Winsor for my Master’s Thesis (and I even got to interviewer her in her studio!). This is probably my favorite work by her. I think it’s really amazing. It’s between 6 and 7 feet square so it’s much larger than it looks in the photo. When I spoke to her about the piece, she told me that these works are all about equality between two materials and building up the twine so that it was as strong as the pieces of wood that it held together. If you take a large leap with me, I related this to the historical/social moment of the 1970s when it was created, specifically the Women’s movement and the Environmental movement, which were fighting for quality. I see this piece reflecting both the restrictions placed on women and the environment–making the natural elements fit into the mechanized grid format–and the fact that neither women nor the environment can ever really fit into the “boxes” that patriarchal culture attempts to place upon them–the branch that forks in the center. 

This was my passion for a year of grad school, so forgive the expository nature of the post.