Found Art Friday 283

Dear ones,

We are delighted to see that Art Ranger's inbox has assembled a range of offerings both of the natural environs and the artistic production sort:

Textile artist Amanda Salm " I liked the similarity in the beautifully fabricated, complex web woven by an unknown mentor of mine outside our bathroom window 

While she weaves hairs of horses in a most persistent and ongoing fashion, reminding us here of so many different nodes and nodules, loosely toying with gravity, subtle where it bends.

Lost our train of thought, oops, find a thread and knot it back - or, perhaps a crone's split ends dangling.

Also this week (Best Friend a person could have) is at  a new establishment called "The Filling Station" in Bellingham, Washington (we're already a fan).  Here, she witnessed an uplifting artistic intervention:

(Before) - "revamping a tired/generic/clinical sign".

(After) What some love and paint application can do! !

 

Today we enjoy our backyard webs even more after hearing from Amanda, our weaver.

A droplet hammock on the way to chickens

We'll call it scintillating, a word that can now be put to rest.  What has amazed your senses, or smiled your while?   Send to:  homelandinspiration@gmail.com.

 

Found Art Friday 282

Dear ones,
What has stubbed your toe lately?  As usual, non human animals just know things that we don't.  Every special teacher we have ever had throughout these life chapters says something about one's heart.  "Listen to your own heartbeat, can you?" says Tai Chi Instructor Leonard Han.  This week, Art Ranger had the pleasure of seeing this man's art studio.  As our practice is to treasure art of the moment, we also get to witness a visitor and its iridescent neck seeming so at home with this art ledge found on Cannery Row.  Lovely siting for a work in process that is already about process:

This viewer had the doors blown off her eyelids regarding the paintings; not just the craft, but its narrative potential, in careful, mysterious, figurative configurations. Yes, go figure! 

Painting by Leonard Han that is not even slightly finished

We're still trying to get the hang of yin and yang! Along the way, this man was, is,  and will be painting, though all we really knew about was the breathing (yes those "breathing lessons" we love to re-shape and share and shift). Or, try the horse pose while holding one's arms as though there are pigeon eggs in pits thereby increasing circulation - isn't that what all the world needs to know about itself? 

People must squeeze all they can out of it:  oil paints, as well as living fully while lightly

Local showing of this work in July!

In contrast, a week ago we attended an Art Fair in San Francisco featuring 92 galleries.  This somehow is Art Ranger's favorite copyright protected picture from the day.  

Lots of Art History grads at the tiny plexi-desks in long thready assymetrical sweaters, less lipstick. Bright hued eye wear amongst the elders.

we really didn't need three jars of ancient celery seeds, now did we

Please tune in by sending us images.  So very refreshing would it be!  Otherwise, we make it all up:  homelandinspiration@gmail.com