Missoula MT | June 2014

New Orleans | May 2014

more sidewalk glass - aka vault lights

Were we on the same streets?

Glass squares of Pioneer Square

Painting on patterns

Went to a fabulous show at the Gibbes Museum. John Westmark uses tissue pattern pieces as the foundation for his paintings. They are flowing, expressive and thoughtful pieces. See more here
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Old City Jail

Visited an old jail with interesting marks in the plaster. 

And doors too

Pollen Puddle

Rain washed all the pollen into a few puddles of our parking lot. 

Vintage throw #2

Vintage throw

Been looking for these for a while. Hand stitched, muted colors, patched and worn by somebody. 

Mochi's

Just to tempt you a little more. These are ice cream filled rice paste treats. Chewy on the outside, soft on the inside. A local delicacy. 

Wool Jacket

Boiled Wool Jacket  (which Tricia does not need)

Waikiki

Mai Tai on the beach at Waikiki. Tiki torches, parrots perched on shoulders and surfboard shaped menus, Hertz rental car Hawaiin shirts, ukeles and miso soup for breakfast. Street names full of vowels. Surfers at sunrise and sunset. $64/day parking. Aloha and mahalo! 

Stitches

Bamboo + Savannah lines

Another art-o-Mat

The machine at Halsey Center in Charlest on. 

My favorite. A capacitor robot packaged in a real cigarette box complete with stamp. 

A variety of art in a box. 

Bamboo Garden 

Steal Like An Artist

Love this book by Austin Kleon http://austinkleon.com/steal/.  Love his candor and common sense. Great quotes like "the only art I'll ever study is the stuff I can steal from" - David Bowie. How about you? 

Ryan women go south

At the Bamboo gardens in Savannah, GA  with my new Instax camera. 

Silhouettes in the sun in downtown Savannah. 

Winter Cutie Citrus Salad

winter cutie citrus salad

5 or so mandarin oranges, peeled and sectioned

1/3 cup golden raisins

1/3 cup dried apricots, chopped

1/3 cup blueberries

juice of 1 blood orange

juice of 1 lemon or lime

zest if 1/2 orange

1 tsp honey

4 leaves of basil, chiffonade

1 T poppy seeds

Mix all ingredients together, enjoy!

note: if your raisins and apricot are needing some refreshment,

mix them for a few minutes in the orange and lemon juice 

before adding the rest of the ingredients

By Kaitlin and Mary

Textures

Bubbles from plastic covering of a greenhouse 

Side of building downtown Savannah

Art-o-mat

Found this re purposes old cigarette machine in a shop in Savannah. $5 for each little box of art.

 

hardware....

The view through the camera lens allows me to focus on discreet evidence, primarily evidence of human interaction with the built environment. Door and window hardware tells the story of access and egress. Machinery parts and pieces show how we have manipulated earth materials to have control over some aspect our lives. These are views of the mechanisms we have made to regulate our environment.