ping & swell

curiosities, creations, and revelations revolving around my art-making. xoxo, lo

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barcelo, miquel

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tree and flower of Mondrian

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I asked that it [work] should be looked upon, not as a necessary drudgery to be undergone for the purpose of making money, but as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfill itself to the glory of God. That it should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God’s image, should make things, as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing.

Dorothy Sayers

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A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.

Dorothy Sayers

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LIANG Xiao Ping - calligraphy performance

Well-known Australian-Chinese calligrapher LIANG Xiao Ping created this calligraphy artwork of the Tang poem 'Soaring belvederes remotely pierce the void' at...

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Today the first tiny green leaves opened on the tips of the barren branches. The prelude of spring: buds bulge on purplish branches; petite white blossoms fall upwards through gaps in sidewalk stones; daughter friends and mother friends walk in the purple minutes of the day’s exhalation, dusk.

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“All the singers and dancers alike say, ‘All my springs are in you.’”

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alucinante

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4-year-olds working on a coloring sheet I made. I’m drawing more worksheets these days but I’m enjoying it.

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Lately I’ve begun making collaborative drawings with the 4-yr-olds. I begin drawing something and then they want to add things. I want to keep doing this weekly.

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glow. “Una pasada!”

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I’m back to wandering and drawing outside. I’m thinking about how trees are like figures, like dancers, moving and grow like us but at a slower pace. How precios to see growth and movement and change at a slow enough process to enjoy its form. I’m loving the pods of winter carrying seeds in beautiful forms.