Wild Muse Notes ♣ Aria Nadii’s Weblog

A lovely way to start the first morning of May is with a reminder of Lord Whimsy’s post about David Brenner’s moss garden. I love moss and don’t care much for water hogging cultivated lawns or obsessively hedge trimmed blandscapes. There is a small cottage up the road with a moss path to the door […]

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I’m still floating in the mist. I think it’s called a brain fog. The signs of life I refer to are (unfortunately) not mine. Not yet. They are outside, here on the coastal homestead among the flora and fauna and wildlife. Spring flowers, mint, oregano, garlic, purslane, parsley, dandelions, sage, spring onions, rhubarb, and […]

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“We can no longer physically read the book, so in that way it is made redundant; and yet on another level it has taken on a new life and is telling a different story.”
This is from the artist statement for Su Blackwell. These are called book cut sculptures. I found the link through Blue […]

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The installations of Jennifer Angus gives new meaning to the expression “fly on the wall”. I find this work aesthetically pleasing but I really don’t know how I feel about it, which is part of the reason it fascinates me. I think there are several elements combined here that are interesting; perception shifts using displaced […]

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The heat wave has broken so I will make a post and then work in the studio for while. It has been too hot to be in the crow’s nest where my work space and office are located. I’ve been sitting in the first floor kitchen which is more or less below ground, in a […]

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