Christine Lukasik

Wonder valley

@ Glass Outhouse Gallery. Cleverly placed along the ridge of a former gunsmith sight-testing bowl Trent's installation of these hundreds (?) of colored bottles are pretty in just average light - but come sunset you'll position & reposition yourself, find yourself scaling the slippery sandy walls of the pit trying to get just one more view of the sunset dazzling through these simple yet magical magnifying bottles. Addictive!

Noah Purifoy art ranch

God our Father on the Rainbow

Brain wandering far and wide lately. Today Stockholm. Carl Milles sculpture called "God our Father on the Rainbow" at the Nacka Strand Yacht club across the bay from Stockholm center. It was originally desinged in 1946 as a monument for peace and a celebration of the creation of the United Nations. Milles only created a small bronze model, but his pupil American sculptor Marshall M Frederics brought it to full size 50 years later. It's incredible.

Kick Ass New Tindel

Pae White "Smoke Knows"

want on dining room wall or, well, anywhere....

Pae White, "Smoke Knows", chosen for the Whitney Biennial (opened on Feb 25).

fail better

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry

http://ginevra.typepad.com/njudah/2009/11/-happier-today-.html

brilz

http://icanread.tumblr.com/post/432293483

Apache Blessing

"May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being. May you walk through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life." - Apache Blessing

Rumi that moves me today:

It is your turn now,
you waited, you were patient.
The time has come,
for us to polish you.
We will transform your inner pearl
into a house of fire.
You're a gold mine.
Did you know that,
hidden in the dirt of the earth?
It is your turn now,
to be placed in fire.
Let us cremate your impurities.

and

I said, meet me in the garden.
You know the one--
it is called Smiling Spring.
There are nightingales chirping away,
wine and candle lights,
and companions as soft as
pomegranate blossoms.
You think this all would sound so perfect!
But without you by my side,
what use is the Smiling Spring?
And when you are with me,
what use are pomegranate blossoms?