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Have a Fun Summer Weekend

It's hot HOT HOT in New York City. I'm staying indoors and keeping cool till the heatwave is over, but my mind is still on vacation. I took photos of these horses in Saugerties while we went camping upstate New York. I loved the artistic expressions and I was so busy looking at all the different patterns it took me awhile to notice it was the same exact horse in the same exact pose. Hope you are having a wonderful sunny weekend!

 

 

Mom and I

I'm still obsessing over my new ring and I just spoke to my mom back in Varna, so I thought I'll give you a glimpse of both of us. This is the gallery where we found this treasure. Thank you mom!! I loved that the gallery sold a compbination of paintings, sculptures and jewelry. If you haven't seen the photos of my mom's garden you can see them here and here.

And another close up of the ring.

ART by Kate Gilmore

What is art? And how do we know what is GOOD art?

I was walking around Bryant Park when I saw Kate Gilmore's installation "Walk the Walk" and was stricken by how exhausted some of the walking girls looked, so I thought: "I should film this" and here it is:

Then I read the New York Times article " Pounding the Pavement on a Bryant Park Pedestal" by Randy Kennedy and I understood what the art piece was about, but it still seemed a bit frivolous and abstract. And then a week later a friend invited me on a member's tour of the Whitney museum where the curator Gary Carrion-Murayari personally introduced us to the art in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and there it was again, the name Kate Gilmore and another art piece by her. In this one she is fighting her way out of a toll sheet rock square. Completely enclosed in the tight space she pounds the walls with her own hands and feet, dressed in a feminine dress and shoes and wearing nothing but light leather gloves. "What does it mean?", you say. The New York Times article explains this project as: "the absurdity of contemporary life" and Whitney Museum as "the fight of women with daily obstacles". An the other project "Walk the Walk" in Bryant Park as "the determination it takes just to walk down a busy city street", expressed in the girls walking endlessly on top of the Bryant Park cube... 

I have daily struggles! I walk around... even endlessly or aimlessly sometimes! Why is it that I still don't feel convinced? I do understand the concept now, but I'm thinking of maybe surrounding myself with a pile of clothes and fight my way out of it with shoes in my hands.

Would that be art?

What if I write up a smart concept behind it and tie it up to social behavior?

What is art? Is art legitimized if someone paid for it?

Sea Urchins Inspire Jennifer Maestre

Just a quick inspiration post to get mine and your Friday off to a great creative start! I am always amazed at what an artist can build with simple common things that surround us all, every day. An artist sees past the ordinary and moves on to create without boundaries! That's exactly what Jennifer Maestre does. She works with color pencils to create sea urchin inspired sculptures. Beautiful flowing shapes, don't you think?
How many pencils have I come across and it never crossed my mind to use them for sculptures. Well... at least I colored outside the lines.
What do you do with your pencils?

All photos from JenniferMaestre.com

Wear Your Magazine!

Love, LOVE this idea of wearing a piece of news, art or in fact the whole magazine! Every 6 weeks T-Post prints a t-shirt magazine with a piece of news on the inside and an artist interpretation on the front.

Take a look at their 51st t-shirt issue with Augmented Reality. The t-shirt projects a 3-D interactive game of Rock, Paper, Scissors via your web camera using Augmented Reality. How cool is this? I want one of those right now! 

From T-Post.se

Sunday is Creative Day

What are you up to today? Is spring stirring up your creative juices?

Photo by @BobbinTalk

Have an Amazing Weekend!

Spring is officially here and I've been meeting with long lost friends all week long and walking around the streets of NYC enjoying the beautiful warm weather. I love how a bit of sunshine brings out the desire in people to go out and reconnect with friends! Here are some photos of the open space gallery at 415 West 13 Street in NYC's Meatpacking District. I walked by it yesterday. The windows were wide open so all the passerbys can just peek right in! What an amazing space!

Follow me on @BobbinTalk for updates on the go!

Dallas Shaw Sneak Peek

A new website, exciting projects... Dallas Shaw has become an artist in demand. Most recently she redesigned the DKNY look! Congratulations!

Check out her pretty blog DilliyDallas for her daily inspiration too!

Have an Amazing Weekend!

Wishing you a beautiful weekend!

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Christina Lopera - Disturbed Beauty!

A touch of beauty and just enough of a disturbed sensation made me featured Christina Lopera's illustrations and dolls, as suggested by Krasi Genova. I have to admit dolls scare me more than clowns! How about you?

Images from ChristinaLopera.com