Parasol Mag

The 3rd issue of Parasol Magazine is out online, yay! It features upcoming artists, photographers and designers. Best of all it's free.

Be sure to check out issues 1 & 2 as well because they are equally incredible.

Art Nouveau

Sorry I keep posting about Leaves of Grass but, this particular edition published by the Modern Library in New York, has such beautiful headings and images. Even though it was written past the movement's peak, it captures the essence of art nouveau.

Saul Steinberg

These are some works I recently stumbled upon by Saul Steinberg. He illustrated for the New Yorker during the 20th century. His works are truly beautiful and I love the aesthetic he's captured. It's inspiring to see early collage, mixed media, and print works.

First Weekend in April

I am incredibly excited for this weekend. Tonight is studio collective and first friday! It's also my sister's sweet sixteen, she's the girl on the swing in the post below, so she's spending the weekend with me. I'm going to expose her to the Raleigh art scene and well as design parties.  I have a postcard up in 

a gallery for auction and my flower chair from studio is up. It's gonna be good...

Michaela's packaged gifts

Brute model of my "Linear" flower chair made of wire and string

Sabrina Ward Harrison

For my design culture and context class we were instructed to write about an artist who inspires us...

In life, the optimum feeling we as humans feel is joy. To record and remember that joy as well as to convey it in new situations is an incredible and rewarding feat. To be able to do this while at the same time acknowledging our digression in society brought about by technology and wastefulness is something I strive for and respect. Sabrina Ward Harrison is an artist who works along these ideals. She reports on “the electrifying experience of being” and addresses the fading cultural landscape of our country and our interconnectedness as human beings. Through her journals and mixed media work involving photography, sound, collage, film, and found objects, she creates inspired by the beauty in the landscape and the world.  She believes we need to be brought home to the presence of our living, a notion that both coincides with my ideals and invigorates my soul.

Finding Purity in the Man-made

It's not often you hear people talking about being awed at the beauty of the man-made. Maya Lin's work Rolling Hill gives me the same feelings of serenity that I revert back to nature to gain. I'm so inspired and breath taken by this work.

Water Nymph

I am absolutely blown away by Sally Mann's photographs. They instantly revert me back to romping around the backyard on warm summer nights with my little sister.

I love their mystic quality, it's as if they're living in a fairytale.

I never thought I'd long to live in an old farm house with wide open fields, flowing brooks and mossy trees-but these photographs entice me and make me desire country life more than living in the village.