kitschy elegance...

something very hard to pull off. Kitsch and elegance most often work against eachother. My sister put artist Payton Turner on my radar and I was intrigued:









She was featured in Elle for her sticker walls and has a business installing the "wallpaper." I can't really imagine how long and tedious that must be but the end product is very fun.

I also enjoyed her sketches:

A different look.

Artist Leslie Oschmann inspired me this morning with her different take on vintage items. I can usually find beauty in old things, but I often stop there. She finds the beauty and then takes it to a new level; a fresh take on re-purposing things to be more beautiful and more functional. She encourages yard sale and flee market finds with character to become something great.

Goodbye, Cy.

One of the greats, and a favorite of mine, passed away July 5th. Cy Twombly. He was making art even in his last years and I saw some recent work (including the piece above) in the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago a few years back. It was then I fell in love with his Peony series. I am glad that are many more pieces of his work that I have yet to see, but sad that no new pieces will ever be made.

"The death of the American painter Cy Twombly, at the age of 83, has ended one of the most distinguished artistic careers of the past half-century. Like a latter-day Ingres, he was an expatriate who lived in Italy, fascinated by the country's cultural heritage. Twombly's response to this stimulus was, however, anything but academic, as he expressed himself with a radical language of highly coloured stains and energetic brushwork. His success resulted from the combination of this exciting style with a subtle, original intellect, great self-belief and a measure of charm and good fortune."

"if you build it they will come"

Tom Sachs, A Selby Film from the selby on Vimeo.


"There's this one spot and I don't think anyone in the whole world is going to notice but me, but it's really bugging me."