Photographs from around the world taken by Walter Callens.
photograph above was taken by Ania Blazejewska
⥉ World Voyage ⥉
⩕⩖⩕⩖⩕ Dream Weaver Pt.4 ⩕⩖⩕⩖⩕
Fiber artist Diane Itter. She emerged in the 1960s creating bright colored fine threaded pieces. Each work took her about one to one-half weeks of 8 to 10 hour workdays.
⎎⎎⎎ Dream Weaver Pt.3 ⎎⎎⎎
⌇⌇⌇Dream Weaver Pt.2⌇⌇⌇
After blogging about Sheila Hicks my lovely friend Kristin Korven told me about Claire Zeisler. In 1962 Claire began making freestanding, three dimensional fiber sculptures. Her inspirations included pieces from her vast collection of Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Picasso & a variety of amazing ethnic objects.
⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚ Dream Weaver ⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚⦚
Fiber sculpture artist Sheila Hicks. In 1957, while in South America she developed her interest in working with fibers. After founding workshops in Mexico, Chile, and South Africa, and working in Morocco and India, she now divides her time between her Paris studio and New York. Her works are in the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Centre Pompidou in Paris to name a few.
⚰⚰⚰ Happy Halloween Merowww ⚰⚰⚰
⬖⬗⬘⬖⬗ Veronica Ibarra ⬖⬗⬘⬖
With a makeup brush in one hand and a camera in the other Veronica Ibarra transforms herself and her subjects. She captures self expression and invokes a timeless place. She is an inventive spirit that can create magic with whatever surrounds her. Inspiring to no end, I love Veronica's eye and those red lips.
Here are some photographs from when I lived in New York City. Veronica and I lived in the East Village a few blocks from each other. We fed chocolate muffins to squirrels while we sipped our coffee in the park. Late night drunken cheese pizza and feet sore from dancing in our platforms. I miss our wild New York days!
I was always amazed by the new face Veronica had created for me!
⚚◯⚚ Madley ⚚◯⚚
⧏⦉⬡⦊⧐ Crystal Visions ⧏⦉⬡⦊⧐
Carly Waito's paintings of crystals.
sphalerite
tourmaline
pyrite
spessartine
smokey quartz
bornite
barite
amethyst
rhodochrosite
quartz
hematite
These paintings also remind me of the Andrej Pejic Dazed & Confused editorial.
⑃⑂⑃⑂⑃ Dogon ⑃⑂⑃⑂⑃
The Dogon are a people from Mali, in West Africa, believed to be descended from ancient Egyptians. Their belief system includes astronomical information so detailed and accurate that many wonder how they came to acquire this knowledge of the universe.
According to the Dogon, they were visited by a race of extra-terrestrial beings called the Nommos thousands of years ago. The Nommos were ugly, amphibious beings who landed on Earth in a spinning ark, causing great noise and wind. They came from a star invisible to the human eye which orbits the bright star Sirius every 50 years. They shared with the Dogon knowledge of Jupiter's four moons, Saturn's rings, and the fact that the planets in our solar system orbit the sun. This influences their ritual life and art, and they celebrate the orbit of the Nommos' home star.
