Saturday, January 17, 2009

Friday, January 16, 2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Pickles..... more rough drafts



These are just preliminary sketches - much will change..... now for the werds.... Yikes!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Metamorphosis



N.Y. Ballet - Metamorphosis
Dancer Tanaquil LeClercq w. unident. dancer in New York City Ballet production of "Metamorphosis."
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1953
Photographer: Gjon Mili

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Friday, January 9, 2009

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

Thursday, January 8, 2009

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

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Saturday, January 3, 2009

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.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Sunrise