Wild Muse Notes
type: channel
date: 2014-06-25T22:18:02Z
update period: hourly
update frequency: 1
update base: 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00
generator agent: https://wordpress.org/
items: Jocko and Minette
items: Clara
items: Telephones and Tobacco
items: Foundling Swatches
items: Handwritten Geography Notebook 1804
items: Hobbity Homestead
items: The New Abode
items: Roses and Nails
items: Winding and Weaving
items: As Thyme Goes By
items: Embroidered Book Covers
items: Hidden Treasure

Jocko and Minette
type: item
date: 2014-03-24T05:06:02Z
creator: Aria
subject: Objects and Artifacts
subject: antiquarian books
subject: book pages
subject: found art
description: Original copy of the children’s book titled The Adventures of Miss Minette and Master Jocko: To which is Added The Marvelous Adventures of Dame Trot and Her Wonderful Cat. Published in 1850
encoded: Original copy of the children’s book titled The Adventures of Miss Minette and Master Jocko: To which is Added The Marvelous Adventures of Dame Trot and Her Wonderful Cat. Published in 1850

Clara
type: item
date: 2012-01-04T21:03:10Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: Inspirations
subject: Objects and Artifacts
subject: Visual Art
subject: art
subject: art process
subject: found art
subject: stitched paper
subject: studio
description: The photographs in this article are from an installation by artist Fumio Tachibana. The photographer is Yasuhide Kuge. This exhibition was the first time I had consciously experienced the artist, his inspiration, materials, work, and working space as inseparable. Tachibana … Continue reading →
encoded: The photographs in this article are from an installation by artist Fumio Tachibana. The photographer is Yasuhide Kuge. This exhibition was the first time I had consciously experienced the artist, his inspiration, materials, work, and working space as inseparable. Tachibana is someone who has mastered the art of evocation. The re-purposing and re-imagining of “fragments” woven or arranged into a new whole is a important concept in my own work. His subject is Clara, a fashion institute for western style dressmaking in Japan, founded and run by Motoko and Shiro Koike in 1923. They also published a fashion magazine called Yosai Shunju. The building was demolished and the magazine banned during World War 2 in 1944. I’ll take a wild guess that anything to do with western culture was not at all popular in Japan during that time. Motoko revived the institute as a classroom studio in the 1950s. When the studio was dismantled, Fumio Tachibana collected and reorganized the fragments of Motoko’s work and materials (drawings, sketches, dressmaking patterns, postwar Japanese handbills, wrapping paper, silk thread, and printing equipment) into a large scale installation of new artworks and arrangements in their own space so that the classroom itself was part of the work. There is something powerful going on here in that Motoko’s presence is strongly felt in the photographs. Source: Communion W, 2001 Curator: Can Wong

Telephones and Tobacco
type: item
date: 2011-08-25T05:33:29Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: Crazy Wisdom
subject: In The Garden
subject: art
subject: artist gardens
subject: cape cod
subject: garden
subject: garden structures
subject: permaculture
description: “Who needs a telephone? This (he took a pinch of tobacco from a pouch) is my communication. Better than any telephone. Telephone carries your voice around the earth, not up to the Creator. You don’t need a telephone to talk … Continue reading →
encoded: “Who needs a telephone? This (he took a pinch of tobacco from a pouch) is my communication. Better than any telephone. Telephone carries your voice around the earth, not up to the Creator. You don’t need a telephone to talk to the Creator. When we want to talk to the Creator we burn tobacco and it takes our prayers all the way up to the Sky World. What telephone can do that?” ~ Louis Farmer, Onondaga Nation

Foundling Swatches
type: item
date: 2011-04-01T02:29:08Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: Objects and Artifacts
subject: antiques
subject: fragments
subject: textile
description: Fragments. Remembrances. Scraps of cloth or small tokens attached to the handwritten records of foundling children were kept as a means of identification. It was hoped that these remembrances would be a means of one day uniting mother and child … Continue reading →
encoded: Fragments. Remembrances. Scraps of cloth or small tokens attached to the handwritten records of foundling children were kept as a means of identification. It was hoped that these remembrances would be a means of one day uniting mother and child under more hopeful circumstances. Occasionally, there were happy endings where the child was reclaimed, apprenticed, or adopted. However, more often than not, the foundling children immortalized in these unusual ledgers died young and were buried in unmarked graves. What almost all of them have in common is that this is all that is left of their existence, which is perhaps more of a mark than most people leave, even those who have happier beginnings or more successful lives. There are just bits of cloth, a ribbon or a button attached to the faded pages in a record book, something so practical and seemingly ordinary which have across time and upon rediscovery become completely fascinating. So beautiful and sad. Haunting. Foundling 14695. An embroidered sampler left with a boy named William Porter, admitted on the 6th of December in 1759 and died on the 27th of May in 1760. Captain Thomas Coram opened the Foundling Hospital in 1741 with a charter awarded to him by King George II. Artists William Hogworth, Joshua Reynolds, and Thomas Gainsborough along with composer George Frideric Handel were patrons of the endeavor, donating the proceeds from their works. The idea was revolutionary and progressive in its time. Desperate and destitute young mothers, who did not have the means to care for their children whether they were unmarried or widowed, were given the opportunity to house their children in a safe place with no questions asked and gifted with open invitation to reclaim their children when and if possible. Many of these mothers were probably children themselves, in the worst of circumstances, who would otherwise have abandoned their infants on doorsteps or in the street, or watched them die of illness or starvation. Now give…

Handwritten Geography Notebook 1804
type: item
date: 2011-01-31T02:22:30Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: Inspirations
subject: Objects and Artifacts
subject: antiquarian books
subject: book pages
subject: found art
description: The handwritten pages of a notebook on geography and surveying, kept by Joshua Tevis in 1804.
encoded: The handwritten pages of a notebook on geography and surveying, kept by Joshua Tevis in 1804.

Hobbity Homestead
type: item
date: 2010-11-29T22:14:00Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: In The Garden
subject: Inspirations
subject: cape cod
subject: garden
subject: garden structures
subject: permaculture
description: Another glimpse of of the new abode buried into a hillside and camouflaged in greenery. Peaches, cherries, pears, blueberries, and fig. Refugees from the old beach road. They are all planted now.
encoded: Another glimpse of of the new abode buried into a hillside and camouflaged in greenery. Peaches, cherries, pears, blueberries, and fig. Refugees from the old beach road. They are all planted now.

The New Abode
type: item
date: 2010-11-27T01:06:00Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: In The Garden
subject: freya
subject: garden
subject: garden structures
subject: nemo
subject: wild life
description: I have moved from the garden by the sea to a garden in the woods not far from the sea. It’s another hobbit-like house built into a hill with a half acre of cleared land for gardens and a forest … Continue reading →
encoded: I have moved from the garden by the sea to a garden in the woods not far from the sea. It’s another hobbit-like house built into a hill with a half acre of cleared land for gardens and a forest of brambles. There are wild berries and herbs hiding in there somewhere and I’ll find them eventually. C.P. and I have made a small dent in setting up new gardens just in time to put them to bed. Freya loves it here. I’ve never seen her so relaxed. Little Nemo is still pouting. I think he misses his ocean view. I don’t. When I look out of any window, all I see are trees. It’s so peaceful and much warmer. The ocean is a 20 minute walk instead of a 20 second walk. This beach has more rocks which also means that there are fewer people. Not bad at all. The old shed has electricity and running water so with a little patience and labor I’ll have a new studio by next summer. There are water pipes everywhere and a well. The view from the front and Freya’s favorite new spot. My flying carpet. Mine!

Roses and Nails
type: item
date: 2010-06-11T17:39:43Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: In The Garden
subject: Inspirations
subject: found art
subject: garden structures
subject: permaculture
description: The entire contents of the studio and library, old book pages, works in progress, and art supplies, are still in boxes and bins waiting to be moved and reorganized. I’ll have to content myself with garden photographs, beginning with the … Continue reading →
encoded: The entire contents of the studio and library, old book pages, works in progress, and art supplies, are still in boxes and bins waiting to be moved and reorganized. I’ll have to content myself with garden photographs, beginning with the ridiculous amount of allotment pictures from a recent trip to Boston. The light, the sky, the weather, and the scarcity of other wandering bodies made it a perfect day for taking photographs. There are a few more in my previous post and a full set on Flickr. Although I would never again wish to live in a city, I have a fascination with small urban gardens and allotments. There is such an abundance of charm in small gardens with their clever use of structures and strategic plantings. The victory gardens on the Fenway create an oasis in the midst of crowds, cars, and chaos. There are rusty nails and thorny branches all over the posts and gates. I know they are there to discourage vandals and thieves yet no less beautiful and sculptural in this context.

Winding and Weaving
type: item
date: 2010-06-10T06:50:14Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: Inspirations
subject: art
subject: artist gardens
subject: garden structures
subject: treasure hunting
description: C.P. McDill and I made a rare visit to the city for gallery hopping and window shopping. We strolled from the Commons through the Public Garden and down the full length of Newbury Street, stopping to admire the hand carved … Continue reading →
encoded: C.P. McDill and I made a rare visit to the city for gallery hopping and window shopping. We strolled from the Commons through the Public Garden and down the full length of Newbury Street, stopping to admire the hand carved cabinets of Jenna Goldberg and the incomparable paintings of Goxwa at Axelle. We wandered through the exhaustive maze of allotments at Fenway Victory Gardens working up an appetite for the amazing Thai cuisine we had for dinner. We ended the evening by winding up the main street, returning to the Commons in time for sunset on the pond and a carousel ride. It was a perfectly lovely day capped off by reading many generous blessings and good wishes for which I am thankful. Photographs, of course, do not do Goxwa’s work justice. There is so much light in these paintings. I recommend that anyone near Boston visit her solo show at Axelle Gallery on Newbury Street. These are just details taken with a digital. The full compositions have more impact. Scrap wood bird house with a nail for a perch. These are much more expensive birdhouses in a shop display on the main street. ! I like these but I prefer the scrappy DIY version. Sunset and a white rabbit ride.

As Thyme Goes By
type: item
date: 2010-06-08T01:37:00Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: In The Garden
subject: artist gardens
subject: beach
subject: cape cod
description: Lost in the limbo land between buying and selling a home. It seems as if all we’ve done this spring and summer is work on one or the other house or garden and move objects between them. Cats are confused. … Continue reading →
encoded: Lost in the limbo land between buying and selling a home. It seems as if all we’ve done this spring and summer is work on one or the other house or garden and move objects between them. Cats are confused. I am exhausted. The blog has been neglected. I’ve been painting walls and longing to paint again from a palette rather than a can. I am excited to move into my new home though and I love it madly even though it’s stolen all of my time. The most challenging and emotional part of all this has been moving the gardens, deciding which plants to keep and which to leave and where they go and all that jazz. These photos were taken last week at the beach house garden. Everything has changed dramatically again. Faded irises have given way to an explosion of daisies, coreopsis, and foxglove. So much inspiration. So little time.

Embroidered Book Covers
type: item
date: 2010-02-17T18:55:34Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: Inspirations
subject: Objects and Artifacts
subject: antiquarian books
subject: antiques
subject: book covers
subject: embroidery
description: While researching book bindings for a project, I’ve been coming across these gorgeous embroidered book covers and bindings from the 16th and 17th century. Thought I’d make a blog post out of these exquisite works of art.. The original scans … Continue reading →
encoded: While researching book bindings for a project, I’ve been coming across these gorgeous embroidered book covers and bindings from the 16th and 17th century. Thought I’d make a blog post out of these exquisite works of art.. The original scans for the books are scattered throughout The British Library Database of Bookbindings. I’ve just selected, cropped, and optimized them. The larger size originals are in a flickr set so that all the amazing details can be seen and are worth clicking through and taking a good look at. Embroidered satin book with floral motif. The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London, 1639) Embroidered velvet book with scroll and floral pattern. Orationis Dominic: explicatio (Geneva, 1583) 17th century embroidered satin book with pictorial angel and trees. The Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes (London, 1634) Embroidered Canvas book, pictorial angel and floral motif with two red ribbons. The Booke of Common Prayer (London, 1611) 17th century embroidered velvet book cover. A Comfortable Treatise, for the reliefe of such as are afflicted in Conscience: revised the third time, … interlaced, and enlarged in many places. (London, 1620) Front and back covers of an embroidered satin book with two sets of metal clasps. The Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes (Edinburgh, 1644) Embroidered satin book cover with silver threads. Good Newes from Heaven. (London, 1631) Embroidered book cover with sequins. The Holy Bible (London, 1642) Satin embroidered book cover with threads of coloured silk ‘woven’ across upper and lower covers. The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London, 1627)

Hidden Treasure
type: item
date: 2010-02-02T00:11:59Z
creator: Aria Nadii
subject: Objects and Artifacts
subject: antiquarian books
subject: antiques
subject: book pages
subject: treasure hunting
description: Now this was a lot of fun to discover. I purchased an old leather sewing kit. It was in excellent shape and apparently had nothing inside it except a rusty threaded needle and brown paper padding at the bottom. However, … Continue reading →
encoded: Now this was a lot of fun to discover. I purchased an old leather sewing kit. It was in excellent shape and apparently had nothing inside it except a rusty threaded needle and brown paper padding at the bottom. However, there was something quite interesting and well hidden wrapped in that plain brown paper. The mysterious thing about these old book pages is that they have “1724” marked in pencil on them, which is something a dealer would have done and yet they are stuffed at the bottom of a sewing kit and cut to the edges in a way that indicates the are being used as padding. Interesting naive woodcut illustrations. I like some of the little details, especially the skull and bones with mushrooms.