Sunday, June 02, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Architecture for your Dreams
I'm never moving.
I mean I'm pretty sure I'm never moving. Only two things would possibly get me to move:
1. I become so impoverished I cannot afford to live in the house where I currently live - I have to sell it and move into some crazy small apartment that is super cheap. (I doubt this will happen, but I suppose it's crazy not to be realistic about the fact that it could happen).
2. I become so incredibly wealthy that my bank account is just sitting there wondering aloud why I don't buy one of the very cool houses in paradise valley that I've always loved. (I doubt this will happen, but I suppose it's crazy not to be realistic about the fact that it could happen).
Given those exceptions, I likely will stay put forever. I'm totally happy with that.
Nevertheless, I think it's important to have dreams. Dreamy architecture in particular is good for the imaginings of a healthy fantasy life, and these homes would seem to be incredibly happy spaces to exist within:
I mean I'm pretty sure I'm never moving. Only two things would possibly get me to move:
1. I become so impoverished I cannot afford to live in the house where I currently live - I have to sell it and move into some crazy small apartment that is super cheap. (I doubt this will happen, but I suppose it's crazy not to be realistic about the fact that it could happen).
2. I become so incredibly wealthy that my bank account is just sitting there wondering aloud why I don't buy one of the very cool houses in paradise valley that I've always loved. (I doubt this will happen, but I suppose it's crazy not to be realistic about the fact that it could happen).
Given those exceptions, I likely will stay put forever. I'm totally happy with that.
Nevertheless, I think it's important to have dreams. Dreamy architecture in particular is good for the imaginings of a healthy fantasy life, and these homes would seem to be incredibly happy spaces to exist within:
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Whimsical Decor
The unexpected is always fun.
I love going into someone's home for the first time and finding out they have a little pizzazz. A little spunkiness inside their demure exterior.
A little punk in their princess and preppy. A little crazy in their sane. And a lot of kid in their grown-up.
I love going into someone's home for the first time and finding out they have a little pizzazz. A little spunkiness inside their demure exterior.
A little punk in their princess and preppy. A little crazy in their sane. And a lot of kid in their grown-up.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Mark Rothko
“The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
So true.
Lately I am drawn to Rothko's. And I see them everywhere in some sort of way that seems like an odd serendipitous message from the universe. I stumble across them on pinterest, or somewhere else on the internet, in a book, magazine, or even recently on a billboard.
When life hands me odd serendipitous happenstances like that I often wonder what it all is suppose to mean. Lately, I am in one of those rare moments in life where everything seems to line up just so, even though I feel like I am in in the midst of constant chaos. Do you ever feel like that?
Some background on Rothko:
Rothko was an abstract expressionist who absolutely hated that description. He rejected that completely. Rothko felt art was a way to express emotions or religious/spiritual feelings. Rothko was known for his color fields. His color fields were meant to express deeper feelings and emotions - things which are nearly impossible to paint, but he tried. Rothko thought it was interesting that this is how children often paint or think about painting - when you ask them to paint something about how they feel - it is often an abstraction. It is usually adults who direct children to draw a person or a "happy family" or a family pet to express happiness. Children left to their own devices will usually employ an abstract technique. And he felt that children's emotions are more pure and therefore, perhaps abstracted emotive paintings were also a more pure form as well, even when painted by adults.
Rothko had very complex ideas about what his paintings meant. But even though you can read pages and pages of ideas about what he was trying to get at - the bottom line is that Rothko wanted you to FEEL his paintings.
"...only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions . . . The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationship, then you miss the point." - Mark Rothko
I've seen several Rothko's in person and I never fail to be moved by them. And I think maybe being in touch with something in the paintings is something that just happens to some people - but maybe doesn't happen to others. Some people really don't like abstraction in their art because they find it difficult to understand what it means.
Rothko committed suicide in his 60s shortly after finding out he had some serious health problems.
Maybe in the same way that some people easily learn french, or understand math - maybe some people speak of language of abstraction. I don't know.
Here are some of my favorites:
So true.
Lately I am drawn to Rothko's. And I see them everywhere in some sort of way that seems like an odd serendipitous message from the universe. I stumble across them on pinterest, or somewhere else on the internet, in a book, magazine, or even recently on a billboard.
When life hands me odd serendipitous happenstances like that I often wonder what it all is suppose to mean. Lately, I am in one of those rare moments in life where everything seems to line up just so, even though I feel like I am in in the midst of constant chaos. Do you ever feel like that?
Some background on Rothko:
Rothko was an abstract expressionist who absolutely hated that description. He rejected that completely. Rothko felt art was a way to express emotions or religious/spiritual feelings. Rothko was known for his color fields. His color fields were meant to express deeper feelings and emotions - things which are nearly impossible to paint, but he tried. Rothko thought it was interesting that this is how children often paint or think about painting - when you ask them to paint something about how they feel - it is often an abstraction. It is usually adults who direct children to draw a person or a "happy family" or a family pet to express happiness. Children left to their own devices will usually employ an abstract technique. And he felt that children's emotions are more pure and therefore, perhaps abstracted emotive paintings were also a more pure form as well, even when painted by adults.
Rothko had very complex ideas about what his paintings meant. But even though you can read pages and pages of ideas about what he was trying to get at - the bottom line is that Rothko wanted you to FEEL his paintings.
"...only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions . . . The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationship, then you miss the point." - Mark Rothko
I've seen several Rothko's in person and I never fail to be moved by them. And I think maybe being in touch with something in the paintings is something that just happens to some people - but maybe doesn't happen to others. Some people really don't like abstraction in their art because they find it difficult to understand what it means.
Rothko committed suicide in his 60s shortly after finding out he had some serious health problems.
Maybe in the same way that some people easily learn french, or understand math - maybe some people speak of language of abstraction. I don't know.
Here are some of my favorites:
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Entre
Great Ideas if you're thinking of trying something more interesting with your front door!
(and really, life is too short for neutral doors isn't it?)
(and really, life is too short for neutral doors isn't it?)
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