this made me happy today...

from the finish designer Maija Louekari

Stationary show & ICFF 2009 part 2

At the ICFF 

1. Deadgood's heart mirror

2. GreyPant's cardboard lamps

3. Molo design

4. Aboubakar Fofana: loved this exibit... so simple, so beautiful. It goes to show that great design and great taste doesn't take much, just an eye for beauty.

Stationary show & ICFF 2009 part 1

Now that everyone has already blogged and posted their favorite sightings at the 2009 stationary show and International Contemporary Furniture Fair, I will take a little time to list what caught my eye. Having gone last year, I didn't find too much that was new (especially at the stationary show), but a few things did stand out.

Stationary:

1. Yellow Owl Workshop: really this girl does her own thing and it is refreshing to see. It's not gimicky or over done. she just does her art, keeps it simple and limited and voila!

2. Enormous Champion: won me over with their wonderful wood animal cut outs and whale poster

3. Bell Invito: had some elegant and simple letter pressed zodiac by patch nyc

heaven and water

Years ago I started on a project photographing the swiss mountains and the gulf of mexico. The contrast between the mountains and the sea were my very first teachers in my love of natural spirituality. It is there that my father roamed, climbed, bathed and meditated... and his soul remains. Finding the work of Patricia Schwoerer reminded me that I need to pull my project back out of the closet.

ok I can't resist to post this... total parent moment, but I want to be in their world again for a few hours!

you know you have a great boss (and friend) who sends you to check out Yayoi Kusama's show at the Gagosian during your lunch break. Thanks Vanessa! 

ps that is me sneaking photos in the room.

more inspirations by little ones

Every time I bring Äya to school I'm blown away by the beautiful art in the hallways. As an artist I ask myself everytime... have I forgotten to be that free? 

children to inspire

spring brings out this incredible feeling of freedom and no one inspires that more than children. With the warm weather brings bare feet, grass, swings and dreams... not to mention perfect yoga poses!
(tree photos by äya)

marius

Marius has been in our lives for almost a year now... 

the tears will flow come the end of summer

our little jan holds part of him in his smile

aya hands strums his tune

impossible to replace

the gift we had for a year

the poetry of plants and things...

Vanessa's lovely friend and incredibility talented photographer, Ngoc Ming Ngo sent me these inspiring photos this morning of Valerie Finnis, an english horticulturalist and photographer. Which in turn conjured up thoughts of Stanley Kunitz and his lovely book Wild Braid, from which this excerpt is from...

Touch Me

BY STANLEY J. KUNITZ

Summer is late, my heart.

Words plucked out of the air

some forty years ago

when I was wild with love

and torn almost in two

scatter like leaves this night

of whistling wind and rain.

It is my heart that’s late,

it is my song that’s flown.

Outdoors all afternoon

under a gunmetal sky

staking my garden down,

I kneeled to the crickets trilling

underfoot as if about

to burst from their crusty shells;

and like a child again

marveled to hear so clear

and brave a music pour

from such a small machine.

What makes the engine go?

Desire, desire, desire.

The longing for the dance

stirs in the buried life.

One season only,

                        and it’s done.

So let the battered old willow

thrash against the windowpanes

and the house timbers creak.

Darling, do you remember

the man you married? Touch me,

remind me who I am.