Susanna Bauer

If you took two of my favorites, that being: 1) natural items such as stones, twigs, leaves and 2) warm fuzzy, crocheted and knitted things and put them together you'd have Susanna Bauer's work. I feel akin to the pieces I've seen so far, and it touches me on a very personal level by using such elemental objects as an exercise in the process of construction. And lets face it, these are just lovely and interesting to look at.

Why yellow makes me happy

Georg Baselitz's Woman of Dresden – Karla.

I ♥ Picasso's parody

I don't think you can really in all seriousness be a well adjusted person without being able to critically look at yourself and laugh. Case in point, SOIL in Pioneer Square is doing a fantastic show that parodies and mocks SAM and Picasso. I just adore how clever it all is. It's highly flattering to be mocked in such a way, and they really didn't too bad of a job replicating the Picasso campaign (although I did cringe at some of the letter spacing and kerning). SOIL took SAM's overtly serious nature and corporate qualms and sent them running down the hall with a pair of scissors. ♥ Props.

I heart Nick Cave

Working on creative concepts for work I stumbled across some lovely juxtapositions of Nick Cave's Sound suits and fashion, title Creature Couture . This mixture strangely checked off all the boxes of multiple likes. And mean come on, its Nick Cave. No do not respond with "from the Bad Seeds?" otherwise I may need to lay the smack down ... if you still don't know what I'm talking about ... google and the entry "Nick Cave Soundsuits" is your friend. If you want to see all this lovely stuff in the flesh, SAM is doing an exhibition in March of next year, so keep your calendars open.

Photography by Ted Sabarese, found via Behance.

For the Love of Hair

I've always loved how long hair looks. I've had this fascination with the texture of hair since I was a kid, and coincidentally its compelled me to draw it (and for a long time sport my own version of that look). There is something ultra satisfying about the end result to spending so much time on each strand. That's why I was enthralled when I came across Hong Chun Zhang on Booooooom. Her work is so delicate and so considered, but so grand.