wild pulp

C Owen Smith creates prints and note cards using animal silhouettes, photographs of bark and bird nests. These are not Photoshopped! They are created by photographing the bark through hand cut templates of the animal silhouettes. I love the texture and depth that the bark creates ( I am always taking photos of tree bark!) and birds nests are always so inspiring and beautiful to me. See more at the Wild Pulp Etsy site here and website here.

All images copyright © Wild Pulp

new mexico summer

 

 

jennifer angus

I first saw Jennifer Angus' work at the Museum of Art and Design's "Dead or Alive" show last year in NYC.  (See my blog post about that show here) Her work combines my obsession for art, textiles, repeating patterns, and bugs together, so I absolutely love it and love her for doing it! Yes, I have a weird fascination with bugs. As scared and grossed out by most bugs as I am, I find them amazing little creatures and they come in the most beautiful colors and designs. They rank high with me for design inspiration, as do birds, tropical fish and chameleons.  Butterflies are beautiful, but Jennifer prefers to use bugs like beetles and weevils, (weevils are my favorite, I have done a lot of art in the past with weevils) Jennifer uses the same bugs over and over again for her installations.  Here she explains how she acquires the bugs- Working with Insects-The Ethics.  If you are in the Los Angeles area, please check out her current show All Creatures Great and Small at the Craft and Folk Art Museum which will be up until September 11, 2011. After that her work will be featured at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY from October 22, 2011 to January 15th 2012. (Which by the way has a fiberarts exhibition that looks pretty great and is open until July 3rd) 

 

Visit Jennifer's webpage here

welcome to the land of enchantment!

We recently left our corporate jobs, packed up our house and left New Jersey (and NY and Philly where we worked) on a 4 day drive (with our cats!) to our new home in Taos, New Mexico. We have been settled in to our new lives for about a month now and couldn't be happier!  I am way behind on posting photos of our place, the landscape and cool places in town. The weather is great, it's almost always bright and sunny with amazing blue skies and gorgeous sunsets every night. Here are a few photos of some grey skies that we had yesterday. I am constantly amazed at how the light on the mountains changes during the day and the grey clouds that we had yesterday mixed with blue skies and the sun shining on the mountains looked pretty cool! I swear though, it never looks the same in the photos as it does in real life! Everywhere you look there are mountains, and behind our house is a field of prairie dogs, jackrabbits, a zillion birds and at night you can hear the coyotes.

This is what it usually looks like

We are starting a garden down there! There is already wild asparagus

There are prairie dogs running around out there! 

The shadows on the mountains are so cool

                                    

Not sure what that pretty pink tree is yet

View from the living room

blue skies and sunsets

More New Mexico. I can't help it, every time I look outside I am amazed and need to run out and take more photos! 

missing endless blue skies and sunshine

Some of Lesley's amateur photography

New Mexico

                                           

It all looks gorgeous, you can't even screw it up that much with a bad iphone photo.