Wild Muse Notes » assemblage https://wildmuse.net Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:18:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 Hand and Heart https://wildmuse.net/hand-and-heart/ https://wildmuse.net/hand-and-heart/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:37:00 +0000 http://wildmuse.net/hand-and-heart-2/ Continue reading →]]> Found and constructed objects. Charms for making, to keep the connection between hand and heart, to inspire a light touch and unburdened memory, a simultaneously focused and detached response to a wild flow of ideas and an overwhelming abundance of materials. Finishing a work of art is all about letting go.

Patin’d silver metal bezel and chain and vintage charm. The image is a hand painted paper tile is an original work of art comprised of vintage paper, ink, and oil paint glaze to resemble the palimpsest of illuminated manuscripts.

]]> https://wildmuse.net/hand-and-heart/feed/ 13 Undersea Dreaming, Pompeii https://wildmuse.net/undersea-dreaming-pompeii/ https://wildmuse.net/undersea-dreaming-pompeii/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:50:00 +0000 http://wildmuse.net/undersea-dreaming-pompeii/ Continue reading →]]> In 79 AD, the Roman city of Pompeii was completely buried in ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, then completely forgotten until it was rediscovered in the mid-18th Century. Many of its citizens attempted to flee but few made it.

This image is a fanciful telling of a fugitive from Pompeii who dove into the sea and was changed by Neptune into an octopus. He now drifts in the depths, dreaming of his former life.

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A horse is a horse of course of course but this isn’t really a painting about a horse.

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