Newsstand, Nightstand

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Newsstand - Berenice Abbott 1935

"I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting."

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Raining Geneva

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Somewhere Switzerland

strange shades in the progressive snow fall

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Ephemeralization

"more and more with less and less until you can do everything with nothing" 

- Richard Buckminster Fuller

R.B.F. in front of his first geodesic dome

structure of the geodesic dome

* temporary tent-style geodesic Dome, Vitra Campus, Weil am Rein, Germany

Snowflakes? Saraceno.

'galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider's web' 

- Tomas Saraceno

image © designboom

all made of elastic rope, geometric calculations used to create fine balances of weights, not surprising Saraceno trained to be an architect

much inspired by astronomy, constellations meteor rocks?

first saw one of these at Art Basel in the spring and fell in love

Merry Christmas

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Irène Inspired

fascinated by Irène Pijoans cut out techniques

* shadows

* rip and tear ephemeral art?

* all cut into whole pieces of thick card, pin up, light shine

Irène Pijoan

Irène Pijoan - rétrospective  Espace Arlaud, Lausanne

cut outs, cut outs, hours of detailed work on huge scale pieces

mixed media pieces, cut outs on guache painting

painting on canvas, coulour and pattern

incredible both in terms of media used and subjects represented

thoughts on population density

* Plywood, paper, pen, wire 50x50x40

* Plywood, paper, pen, wire 50x60x50

* Phonebook, cardboard 30x40x3

TZ

distracted already

* Ngorongoro, Tanzania

* Tarangire, Tanzania

Good Morning

* Here's starting with my space, take a seat