Posted in Inspiration, Photography, Photography Exhibits, Publication Updates, tagged Annual Fall Exhibition 2015, artwork for sale, exhibit, Photography, StoveFactory Gallery on October 11, 2015| 4 Comments »
If you’re in the area, please join me at the opening reception of the StoveFactory Gallery’s Annual Fall Exhibition, Friday, October 16, 6:00-9:00. Visit the Gallery website to learn more about the Artists Group of Charlestown which sponsors this exhibit and about the diverse range of artists whose works will be on display. I am honored to have had one piece excepted for the exhibit, a 16 x 20 framed print, Cosmos. Read more about the origin of this print via this link.
Cosmos
Posted in Inspiration, tagged architecture, colors, destruction, Inspiration, Photography, Somerville, strange beauty, urban landscape on October 11, 2015| 4 Comments »
The demolition before construction of a major new development in my neighborhood. A rather strange beauty in the early morning light.
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged abstract, beauty, feather, Inspiration, nature, Photography, urban landscape on October 10, 2015| 2 Comments »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, Inspiration, leaves, nature, Photography, sunlight, urban landscape, windows on October 8, 2015| 1 Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, tagged art, beauty, color, Inspiration, light, Photography, ripple glass, storytelling, urban landscape, windows on October 8, 2015| 5 Comments »
Yes, through the rippled glass. The landlord recently told me that he had specifically selected that rippled glass. A carpenter, he had found the glass in a building being demolished. And when he assembled the windows for his home, he used the rippled glass.
Posted in Inspiration, Music, tagged African American history, Alabama, architecture, art, beauty, black history, civil rights, history, Inspiration, Katherine Lamb Tait, music, negro spirituals, Photography, religion, Robert Moton, slavery, stained glass windows, storytelling, Tuskegee on October 7, 2015| 3 Comments »
… there was a school and on the campus there was a chapel and inside the chapel there was a stained glass window known as The Singing Window.
photo by Carol M. Highsmith
Sources and Additional Readings
Learn more about the photographer Carol M. Highsmith on the Library of Congress website: Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Learn more about Tuskegee University including its tours and the history of the chapel.
Posted in Inspiration, tagged blue, colors, imagination, Inspiration, Photography, urban landscape, water on October 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »
… bald head, wings spread wide, feathers catching the morning light. In fact it is water racing down the asphalt hill near where I live as the workmen opened up a fire hydrant. The convergence of several flows …
… a cool sight for me but not so entertaining for those suddenly wading through an unexpected stream.
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged colors, Inspiration, nature, Photography, sky, Somerville, sunset, urban landscape on October 6, 2015| 2 Comments »
Posted in Guest Contributor, Inspiration, tagged art, beauty, design, family, fashion, fashion magazines, fashion week, illustration, Inspiration, magazines, Photography, storytelling, style, Vogue, Zoe Langosy on October 4, 2015| 3 Comments »
Remember the hand of the budding artist? Well, mom is artist Zoe Langosy. Recently, she mentioned how important this period of fashion weeks around the world had been in her artistic growth and I asked her to share more through her words and images …
When I was 14, the fashion world became a magic kingdom to me. Fashion took me on a journey through music, pop culture, the arts… I couldn’t get enough. Already developing into a figurative artist, my drawings became filled with long-legged, often tragic looking, beauties. All my characters were adorned in lavish attire made from a patchwork of fabrics and colors. As this was before the internet, the way I kept up with my new found passion and muse was either on TV or through magazines. My teenage bedroom began to overflow with Vogue’s from all over the world, Harpaar’s Bazaar, The Face, Sky… Nothing ever compared, though, to the September issue of American Vogue.
Each year seemed to compete with the year before… More pages, more looks, more exclusive inserts from designers. Each year, as summer drew to a close, my sister and I would check newsstands every day anticipating its arrival. The first issue I purchased was in 1991. Linda Evangelista donned the cover, smoldering with red hair and tartan. I must have turned the pages of that issue a thousand times, and yet somehow kept it pristine like only a true collector could. Never letting any hands on it but my own.
24 years have passed, and I still feel a buzz when the September Vogue appears on the newsstand. It remains a guilty pleasure of mine, still inspiring my art … Of course, I have other inspirations these days as well.
These days, I’m okay if the cover gets scratched or my one-year old tears out a page. Now, it’s become so ingrained in my world it’s like buying a new set of pencils. Something I’m prepared to destroy and use purely as a visual playground that will set my imagination running.
Follow Zoe’s creative journey …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, colors, glass, Inspiration, nature, Photography, ripples, urban landscape, windows on October 1, 2015| 1 Comment »
I was racing about the house, rather blindly, thinking about all of things I needed to do when the light struck the window, that rippled window, and I was compelled to stop and look … and then run to get my camera.
I’ve been collecting these images for years, and while I’ve yet to produce that book of images, I have submitted several individual prints to an upcoming juried art exhibit. Stay tuned for the results.
Words + Images 