#common objects

[mannlibrary]

Plate L from The common objects of the country. Microscopical. 1 and 3 : Scales of various Butter- flies. 2. Eye of Hemerobius. 4. Wing of Peacock Butterfly. 5. Poppy seeds. 6. Wing-case of Green Weevil. 7. Egg of Red Underwing Moth. 8. of Small White Butterfly. 9. of Tortoiseshell Butterfly 10. of Lathonia Butterfly. John George Wood. 1894. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/12884935

[slcvisualresources]

MARGARET LEE 

exhibition, “Reading Into Things” at Team (bungalow), Los Angeles 2015

[songsforsquid]

CAM Member Gallery Show: Belltown Art Walk Opening

Date: Friday, Nov 14, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (during Belltown Art Walk -- open house!) Location: Common Objects, 2601 1st Ave, Seattle 98121

Common Area Maintenance (CAM) is excited to present its first ever group show featuring the work of its own very talented artists and writers! Stop by during Belltown Art Walk to enjoy and peruse a wide range of media - from poems and short stories to prints, paintings, and digital pieces. Our artist and writer members span a wide range of talents and interests and we're thrilled to collect their imaginative work all in one place! Come celebrate this creative community and get a glimpse inside the studio where artists, writers and cultural workers intersect, connect and create! Hope to see you there! Free & all ages.

My RUNASAFN / RUNE LIBRARY interactive installation will be remounted as part of this special group show, as well as some Dream Vessel Ceramics (from Jane Wong's amazing Lyric Vessels class), and poems -- along with works by many amazing artists and writers who are part of CAM's growing community.

About the Event: https://www.tixtree.com/e/common-area-member-showcase-e5317f7667b9 More about CAM: https://www.camseattle.org

[songsforsquid]

Return of the Cephalopods!

At long last, the Cephalopod Appreciation Society will meet again!

Sunday, November 30th, 2:00-4:00pm, at Common Objects (2601 1st Ave, Seattle, WA)

Free and All Ages. Bring the whole family!

Poetry, music, film, dance, science, more -- in celebration and wonderment of our fellow thinkers and expressers the octopus, squid, chambered nautilus, and cuttlefish. And with three cheers to Three Hearts: An Anthology of Cephalopod Poetry.

Cephalopod and other sea-creature costumery encouraged but not required. Mini-parade at the end, weather permitting.

Cephalopod Appreciation Society

[marcogiovenale]

the art of pati hill (1921-2014)

The art of Pati Hill (thanks to https://www.libreriamarini.it/news/pati-hill) (http://www.airdeparis.com/artists/pati-hill/film/film.html) (https://airdeparis.com/artists/pati-hill/index) PORTFOLIO: https://airdeparis.com/portfolio/PatiHill * Common Objects: click to enlarge * From Letters to Jill. A Catalogue and Some Notes on Copying: click to enlarge * PATI HILL ARCHIVE: Pati Hill. Arcadia…

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[dustedmagazine]

Common Objects — Skullmarks (Meenna)

Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies first convened Common Objects in 2005, and you could say that it has evolved patiently between then and now. Once unfixed, the group’s line-up has settled upon six musicians (Davies, electric harp; Angharad Davies and Lina Lapelyte, violins; John Butcher, saxophones; Pat Thomas, electronics; Lee Patterson, amplified devices and processes). The players’ collective experience encompasses established and emergent classical music, electroacoustic improvisation, and electric and acoustic jazz. Common Objects’ performances have been freely improvised and guided by various unconventional scores, but the 2016 concert reproduced on this CD is the first time that the score was made up of objects.

They were by no means common objects. Butcher selected them from the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, an anthropological institution based in Oxford, England. Each of the four objects was made to contain animistic energy. The musicians aren’t believers, nor do they do anything so gauche as to try and create some sort of shamanic ritual in the objects’ presence. But they are all serious diviners of the spirit of the moment, tuned into each other and the space that contains them. It is large but crammed with display cases, and one choice that Common Objects has made is to avoid both the regularity and the density of the museum’s layout. The music develops organically from the opening scrapes of the two violins, adding machine-like churning and bird-like reed cries that test the space’s resonance. The timbral contrasts between dry wood, spit-dampened reeds and bumping electronic tones trace the outlines of a space in common flux. The musicians move carefully through that space, managing proximity with senses that most people don’t know they have, let alone how to use them. Is that magic guiding them, or a conscious effort to imagine how long-dead magic might once have motivated small cabal of believers? Whichever notion you choose, there’s no denying that this music casts a spell.

Bill Meyer

[thewickermaam]

The end of my little common objects paintings! Thursday I painted a little lexar that hangs out in my purse, Friday I did the wall charger to my computer, and today was a needle threader with Athena’s face on it.

[augrisliclandestin]