TURNING THE PAGE

Lament, Wooden book by Karen Kunc

With the new year approaching I am ready to turn the page and start afresh. On the inside cover of my journal for 2012 I have written a quote by Carl Sagan.

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known".

What better way to start a new year than knowing that somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known!

Thanks M for reminding me.

Everything/Something by Karen Kunc. Wooden book: screenprint and gouache.

A big thank you to all the wonderful people who visit my blog. The blog world has certainly enriched my life. A few days ago I was feeling a little frazzled as I usually do at this time of the year and after visiting a few blogs where I read many words of wisdom and encouragement I came away feeling refreshed and filled with hope for the new year. Thank you dear friends for your wisdom, enthusiasm and support!

Wishing you all the best for 2012 and many fulfilling hours, days or months of creativity!

Reference by Karen Kunc. Wooden Book, screenprint and gouache.

Also, a big thank you to all those artists whose beautiful art fills my blog gallery. What a joy to feast my eyes on such extraordinary work!

Though many of you have seen Velma Bolyard's amazing Rock Books, I wanted to celebrate them here on my blog. Click here to read more.

Christina Wiese's ceramic book. See website here.

Check out Wendy Kershaw's series of porcelain books on Flickr, here.

I discovered this photo of Anselm Kiefer's Standing Book on Catherine's Flickr photostream. Many more amazing gems to be found on Flickr. Click here.

Arabesque by Dot Krause. A cast iron book with thin sheet of polymer clay. Website here.

Falling in Place. A series by Redredday on Flickr. See here.

A bundle of Elizabeth Bunsen's little books. I check in on Elizabeth's blog regularly because her photographs and words make my heart sing. See blog here.

Book by Carol E McMahon. See website here.

Book from Ronald Chase's Play series. See website here.

Beautiful handmade pages by Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord. Click here to see The Spirit Book series.

"Each page is a meditation that echoes nature with both repetition and variety. "Reading" the book is meant to be a contemplative experience that takes the reader out of the everyday world and into a state of gratitude and reverence". - Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord

Photograph by Helena on Flickr. See more of her Diary of the Book-Lover series here.

2000 year old lead codice. Read about it here.

"May peace and peace and peace be everywhere".

- The Upanishads (c.900 - 600 B.C.)

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Wishing all my blog friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

I found this tree at Weylandts though it is no longer on the website.

UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS

African Seed by Carrie Varjavandi. Edge Textile artists of Scotland.

"Night the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of the day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man resembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Christine Mauersberger. See Flickr photostream here.

Manon Gignoux in collaboration with Hye-Sook Yoo.

Manon Gignoux in collaboration with Hye-Sook Yoo
Manon Gignoux in collaboration with Hye-Sook Yoo



Federico Saenz Recio. See website here.
Night of Sorcery by Josep Niebla. See Josep's website here.



Silvia Cordero Vega. See Silvia's Flickr photo stream here.

Josef Winkler. See more here.
Full Moon and Still Life by Lorna Crane. See more of Lorna's work here.

Night Visitor by Adriane Bannon. See more of Adriane's work here.


"A Different Firmament.... But when they were crossing the silent market-place on which nobody was to be seen except the sentry on duty at military headquarters, when the empty place surrounded by the dark houses, in which scarcely a light was burning, lay before them like a crater of isolation, like a crater of silence out of which recurring waves of peace flowed over the sleeping town, then Heinrich Wendling took his wife's arm, and at the first physical contact she closed her eyes. Perhaps he too had closed his eyes and saw neither the deep summer night nor the white ribbon of the road that stretched in front of them as they walked in its dust, perhaps each of them saw a different firmament .... " - Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

This beautiful ceramic vessel by John Ward reminds me of the moon.

THE POETRY OF LEAVES

Black Bowl, Maple Leaf by Tom Meyer. Click here.

Looking at a simple leaf.....

Looking at a single leaf ....
Leaf by Ronald Chase. Click  here

I sense poetry ......

I sense poetry....
stories....

stories......

Stitched Leaves by Heidi Soos.See photostream here.

... and art.

....... and art.

Antoni Tapies

I read a blog post by Kelle Hampton about receiving a big box of leaves from her cousin ...... "who sends leaves every year". A gift to connect Kelle to happy memories from her past.

Linda Vachon. Linda Vachon. Photostream  here

At this very moment, I am imagining opening a box of leaves from our Drakensberg farm....... breathing in the scent of pine forests, eucalyptus avenues and ancient oaks, mingled with early morning mist.

Mixed Media by Patrick Boehner. Click here.


Patrick Boehner


Patrick Boehner.  See here.

A POEM by MARY OLIVER

What can I say that I have not said before?

So I'll say it again.

The leaf has a song in it.

Stone is the face of patience.

Inside the river there is an unfinished story

and you are somewhere in it

and it will never end until all ends.

Take your busy heart to the art museum and the

chamber of commerce

but take it also to the forest.

The song you heard singing in the leaf when you

were a child

is singing still.

I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four,

and the leaf is singing still.

Ingredients for a Story by Katie Cooke. Flickr photo stream here.

"Ingredients for a story about London, about falling in love, about writing letters, and about going to the zoo."

Book by Lexi Hayman. See blog here.

ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES

Small wall sculpture by Ben Wolf

Uneven edges....

Kathryn Frund. See more work by Kathryn here.

Tactile edges....

Michelle Y Williams. See more here.

Rough edges...

Terri Brooks. See Terri's blog here.

on canvas, wood or paper....


Pradeep Neruka. See more here.

all add to the charm of these pieces.

Lin Yan. See more here.

Whether it's a painting, a collage, assemblage or a piece of jewellery...

Necklace by Deborah Rudolph. Onyx, aquamarine, silver, kevlar. See more of Deborah's work here.

 a tea bowl....

Alain Vernis. See more here.

Katsumi Kako. See more here.

Katsumi Kako
or sculpture.....

Sculpture by Ursula Vonrydingsvard. See website here.

the rough edges create excitement.