morethansugar

An inspiration blog and a working bridge between poetry and the visual.

[bhsutton]

🧜‍♀️ Detail and full view of Roxanne Jackson’s (@roxannejackson_) splendid ceramic mermaid-predator “Aquata” (2016) from her two-artist show with Shannon Goff at @elijah_wheat_showroom. (at Elijah Wheat Showroom)

[hifructosemag]

Kevin J Weir adds to the ghostly nature of vintage photographs with his humorous and unsettling GIFs. See more on HiFructose.com.

[trulyvincent]

Blue Seascape, Wave Effect Georges Lacombe - circa 1893

[hifructosemag]

Jennybird Alcantara’s absorbing, fantastical oil paintings return in a new show at KP Projects. See more on HiFructose.com.

[ameiners]

Had a busy weekend staying in my pajamas and sewing.  I took a break from the bigger projects to use up a few scraps and try out a few ideas on these wallets.  

[bhsutton]

Gordon Parks’s untitled 1957 portrait of Helen Frankenthaler at @jackshainman. (at Jack Shainman Gallery)

[nprfreshair]

Another thing that I’ve found … [is that] women who write, who have children, their work tends to get ‘disappeared.’ They’re not quite respectable. The few women who are counted part of the great canon of English literature tend to be childless and often unmarried. … I have to say, the men seem to prefer it that way.

Ursula Le Guin, sci-fi and fantasy writer, speaking with Terry Gross in 1989 (via nprfreshair)

[amnhnyc]

It’s a small world after all. Containing bacteria, algae, and tiny shrimp, this ecosphere was sealed in 1999 and hasn’t been opened since: it’s a self-sustaining habitat. How does it work? Algae make food from sunlight. Shrimp take oxygen from the water and exhale carbon dioxide; algae take in CO2 and give off O2. Microbes feed the shrimp—and the CO2-rich shrimp poop helps the algae and microbes! The idea of a closed, self-sustaining ecosystem shouldn’t be too strange, because you’re living in one: Earth. See the ecosphere in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe.

[the-drawing-center]

A Page from the Drawing Papers Archive

This page from Drawing Papers 78 features L’Homme XXVI: Hallucinations, Arture 385 created with handmade pigments and ink on paper by Yüksel Arslan in 1988.

The 2008 exhibition Yüksel Arslan: Visual Interpretations presented a 50 year survey of Arslan’s work, providing an intimate glimpse into his thinking, interests, and obsessions. For many decades, Arslan mined  the depths of the unconscious mind, bringing together Western and Eastern aesthetics and philosophy in finely wrought works that he calls “Artures”. Serial in format, the hundreds of drawings he produced dealt with subjects as varied as schizophrenia and the eroticism of de Sade, Bataille, and Artaud, as well as visual interpretations of artists, poets, writers, scientists, musicians, and philosophers that have influenced his thinking. Arslan’s working process included the use of self-made and antique tools and the production of his own colors using ancient methods of combining raw pigments with his own saliva, blood, urine, and other organic materials like honey, earth, and egg whites.

The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenting The Drawing Center’s exhibitions and public programs and providing a forum for the study of drawing. For more information on Drawing Papers 78  please click here.

-Kate Robinson, Bookstore Manager 

[abigaildoanstudio-deactivated20]

research for #walkinglibrariesedition + PIONEER scent [ Untitled (Disks), 1972 by Mira Schindler, a refugee from fascist Italy who became one of Brazil’s art treasures via The Guardian ] #atmosphere #text #mapping

[hifructosemag]

The textile work of Sabine Feliciano may recall a past biology class for some, as her “dissections” of animals play with the vibrant and textural possibilities of the form. See more on HiFructose.com.

[whitneymuseum]

“The skin for me, that’s where my career kind of started. The skin was an access point. I started drawing in this patterned style back in 2004 and all I wanted to do—not really thinking a lot about race but it became race—was this idea of ‘What does skin feel like?’ when you’re defined by something. I came to the U.S. when I was five years old from Nigeria and had no knowledge of American history and was crash-coursed into it."—Toyin Ojih Odutola

[Toyin Ojih Odutola (b. 1985), Between the Margins, 2017. Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 19 in. ©Toyin Ojih Odutola. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York]

[nprfreshair]

Mariposas de Aragón, 2017. Festival Internacional de Arte Urbano. Photo by Juanjo Fernandez.

[acehotel]

1993 guerrilla marquee by Jenny Holzer who fought the good fight on 42nd street ‘fore they tore it down. 

[morethansugar]

It’s a Jenny Holzer kind of week.

[thecolorblockcurator]

Palestine - Homes for the Disembodied,  Mary Tuma 

[ameiners]

I’ve been melding my passion of bookbinding with my new-found interest in learning how to quilt this past year.  I’ve definitely made a few mistakes, but I like how much time goes into protecting the space of someone else’s words.

[ameiners]

About to head up to Wyoming, but not before sharing this latest mini-project.  The eclipse probably won’t be quite like this.