April 18th - 50K gotta get ready!

Be the Kite...pages 9 & 10... rough drafts

Foxcatcher 50K "Runs with Horses!"

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~Pam Brown

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire. ~Sharon Ralls Lemon

Anne Hardy The Saatchi Gallery

Cipher 2007

Drift 2004

Untitled VI 2005

Cell 2004

Strange, fantastical, and a wee bit unsettling, Anne Hardy’s photographs invite glimpses into imaginary places, each suggesting fictions of a very surreal nature. Working in her studio, Hardy builds each of her sets entirely from scratch; a labour intensive process of constructing a barren room, then developing its elaborate interior down to the most minute detail. Using the transient nature of photography, Hardy’s haunting images serve less to document, but rather to add to the suspension of belief; withholding the actual experience of her environments, her photos evoke a sense of mystery, enticing the viewer’s fantasies to entangle with her own.

In pieces such as Cell and Untitled VI, Hardy’s cluttered interiors become sites of wonder and unease as hordes of miscellaneous found objects compile with an obsessive’s eccentric order. Hardy’s subjects suggest the not-quite-right ambience of madness or dreamscape; a sensation heightened through the unnatural intensity of artificial light. Printed in large format, Hardy’s photos give the viewer a sense of looking through a window, peeping in on something perhaps better left unknown.

Symphony at Sunset

#4 of series of 4 entitled "Symphony at Sunset" in which silhouetted figures avoke musical tempi. Pictured here is VIVACIO.

Date taken: 1901

Photographer: John Holtam

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Horse

-Henry David Thoreau

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage - Whitney Museum

Surprise gift... Ellie!!

Happy New Year!!

Sunrise

More big stuff for Feb 12th this year.....

The Art Instinct will be published on January 1, 2009 in the United States and Canada by Bloomsbury Press. The book will be published in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world on February 12, 2009 — the two-hundreth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin — by the Oxford University Press.

Dante and Beatrice, by Henry Holiday

In 13th century Florence arranged marriages were the norm, especially amongst the uppers classes, to which both Dante and Beatrice belonged. So, at the age of 21 Dante was married off to Gemma Donati, to whom he had been betroted since the age of 12 and Beatrice married a year later too, only to die three years after that, at the tender age of 24. Dante was devastated. He remained devoted to Beatrice for the rest of his life and she was his principal inspiration for much of his well known work, such as La Vita Nuova (The New Life) and La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy).

Sock War!!

Illustration of London street musicians playing their instruments in stormy weather (probably at Christmas time).

Planet Snobody

The Black Forest - not just cake!!

Winter snow in the Black Forest.

Location: Germany

Date taken: 1954

Photographer: Dmitri Kessel

Jingle Bell Run