Byrne on Colbert Report.
Interview.
Performance:
Same as it ever was.
Say something once, why say it again?
Category: Art
Garden art, PhotoShopped images, etc.
Darwin art
From today’s NYTimes, Darwin’s Wake Splashed Artists, Too and the accompanying slideshow profiles the exhibit Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts at the Yale Center for British Art.
… you may not learn anything new about his theories, but you will come to see differently, or at least begin to understand that our ways of seeing have evolved because of the power of his vision.
“Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds,” by Martin Johnson Heade, 1871.
Nectaroscordum sculpture
Who can figure where artists will find inspiration? One found found a very, very marginal shot of a canna flower I grabbed one day and turned it in to this glorious quilt.
I just got an email from Iris Sebba, a 3D art student in England, who says the image below inspired her to try to render it in metal and felt.
It’s not one of my best images. (There are better Nectaroscordum images in this post a couple of weeks later.) But I’m honored that Iris saw this image and then spent hours and hours and hours creating this sculpture.
I wish I could point you to Iris’s website, but all she has for now is a Facebook page. She writes:
[I have] no other images on the web except me in welding gear on facebook. Art is a slow process and really want to enjoy it rather than be pressurised by market forces (that is if anyone would be have the slightest interest in buying anyway!!) so hence no publicity. Having said that my family and friends may well find they have large metallic donations in the future. My husband is already set in fibreglass in the garden (not literally). I have done the degree for intellectual satisfaction as well as practical skills and may go on to do an MA.
Oh Iris. If only you were closer I would drive to pick up any donations you cared to make to my humble garden.
Here’s the fiberglass sculpture of Iris’s husband. Creepy or cool? I vote the latter.
Fringed tulip petal scans
They’re almost as pretty when they fall off. Will have to try individual petals as a PhotoShopped background when I have more time.
Garden blogger bloom day scans
I couldn’t bear to do another somber ‘seeds and twigs’ scan. Needed some color instead. So I went with the African violets and some late-forced bulbs.
I really wasn’t all that excited about the bulb scans. But you can bet that sometime this summer I’ll plop some yellow flowers down on the background.
An alternate take.
As always, thanks for Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting.