Wild Muse Notes

New astrological miniature of the Taurus constellation. I posted this a few days ago and forgot to post it for everyone silly enough not to be subscribed to my improved website’s new work feed or the shop feed on etsy. Hehehe. Kidding. Really though, aren’t these new fangled thingies so convenient? I love RSS feeds.

I redid arianadii.com in wordpress so that it could have a feed and better content management. What a Herculean task it turned out to be that I was not prepared for! It isn’t actually a blog like this one. It’s just that the wordpress is so easy to update. I still need to put up links and a few other pages. I’m working on that. Okay. Whew. That’s done and now I can just have fun posting to my websites and spend more of time in the studio where I belong.

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Various experiments and works in progress. Larger images are available on Flickr. Just click on the pictures.

It seems that amulets and talismans are in the ethers lately, which makes perfect sense. It’s the times. It’s the times. These times are strange aren’t they? This is the debut of a small line of one of a kind jewelry with tiny versions of my paintings as the jewel. They are one half inch to one inch square original works (not prints) that I have made into charms and pendants.

These are the art books that were left out of my art books are love post on Valentine’s Day. They were spread all about the studio and when collected made quite a pile. I thought I should include them, seeing as these are the books most currently referenced, they are probably the most important. The difficult to read titles are Ray Johnson’s “Correspondence” and Shirin Neshat’s catalog from one of the most amazing art exhibitions I have ever experienced. It was in Edinburgh’s fabulous Fruitmarket Gallery and it literally choked me up. That doesn’t happen often, especially at modern art shows. The rest of the studio book collection is in this previously mentioned post

I like to go to open studios as much to see the work spaces as the art. I think everyone should post more pictures of their art studios or their books. I love to snoop in other people’s libraries. Don’t you?

This is my studio spook and that right there is a glare of love.