My Lavender Standby
Purple (Dinosaur, Peter, Duck and), acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, 2011 by Sarah Atlee.
“She’s not as concerned with immediate issues of physical self-defense, so I gather that she’s in a safe living situation. However, her new guardian must be an emotionally distant sort, because she frequently seeks solace under the wings of Duck.”
Carl looked funny. “Duck?”
“One of the four personages who accompanies and advises Princess Nell. Duck embodies domestic, maternal virtues. Actually, Peter and Dinosaur are now gone – both male figures who embodied survival skills.”
“Who’s the fourth one?
“Purple. I think she’ll become a lot more relevant to Nell’s life around puberty.”
- Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. Bantam Dell, 1995.
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Winter storm over the Northeast (night time thermal image) from NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.
Untitled by Flickr user Peregrine Blue.
Untitled by Flickr user Billy Plummer.
Untitled by Flickr user Billy Plummer.
Norfolk Lavender 10-07-2010 by Flickr user Karen Roe.
Read about the various uses of lavender on Wikipedia and the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Found on Flickr: Visual Diaries
The Visual Diaries are tools I create to capture my aesthetic for a particular moment. They’re collections of my favorite Flickr images each month or so. See all of them here.
Hemphill-Co-safe-passage, by Flickr user Stateart1. Click image to view on Flickr.
This is from my October Visual Diary, The Finding Place. Hemphill County, Texas, is where my mother’s family has lived for the past several generations.
See what else I’ve found on Flickr.
Found on Flickr: Visual Diary, November & December 2009
Curious Photo from the George Eastman House collection on Flickr Commons. Click image to view source.
Visual Diary, November 2009: Heads Up
The Virtue Series: Wisdom, graphite and pastel on paper, 2002 by Scott Brooks. Click image to view source. (Scott G. Brooks’ website here.)
Visual Diary, December 2009: Minty Fresh
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Found on Flickr: Visual Diary, October 2009
my moleskine / molescu, photograph by Flickr user Andrea Posada. Click image to view source.
These are my favorite Flickr photos from the last month. Shots from the annual Ghouls Gone Wild Parade make this the semi-Halloween edition. (See plenty more ghouls here.)
Flickr Gallery: Visual Diary, October 2009.
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Found on Flickr: Visual Diary, September 2009
Flickr has a new feature for its users: Galleries. The gallery feature turns any Flickr member into a mini-curator. Give it a whirl! Some of my favorites so far are Minimalism Squared, 2x a Frame, and Kid+Cat Scream.
Stella Im Hultberg painting in progress from Thinkspace Gallery (website here). Click image to view source.
I’ve been using Found on Flickr as an ongoing visual diary, so I’ll make monthly galleries for awhile and see how it goes.
Here is my Visual Diary for September 2009.
I can’t include the following in my Flickr gallery, but they are also what I’m looking at these days:
Esra Roise, My hands are cold but my heart is on fire. Click image to view source.
Cat Panel Diptych by Dara Engler.
I’m exploring the possibility that a lot of Americans “relax” by entering a zombie-like state of hibernation. We choose diversions that allow us to zone out and ignore things in the world that are difficult. I paint secluded, vacant, zombie-like figures who have relaxed in their habits until they have lost time. … They are sluggish, jaundiced, and so lacking muscle tone that they hang over their chairs and defy anatomy. — Dara Engler, from her Artist Statement
Beverly McIver, Dear God 3. Click image to view source.
Hiroshi Watanabe, Baba, Ena Bunraku. Click image to view source. (What are bunraku?)