...to the valley below...

...all things art but mostly clay...

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[americasgreatoutdoors]

Let’s walk beside a meadow teeming with wildflowers and relish majestic alpine views at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington. With the moon high in the sky, this scene feels like a dream. This week, we’re digitally celebrating National Park Week, and together we can daydream about our favorite park memories or add to the places we dream of going to. We can take great comfort in knowing places this beautiful exist. Photo courtesy of Doug Shearer (@Dougshearerphotography).

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“Lotería de la pandemia” de Rafael Gonzales Jr.

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Ahaha!

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🤣🤣

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El Sol y El Divo 

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Cobain. February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994

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😍😍

[fotojournalismus]

Natural Fashion from Ethiopia’s Omo Valley

Photographs by Hans Silvester

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beautiful cultures.

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Old Havana, 1994.

Photo by Thomas Hoepker

[coilpotter]

Yesterday I Was Clever

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

~ Rumi

Photo by Daniela Nezicova

More quotes from Rumi:

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

“Take someone…

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Destroy All Monsters (1968)

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this is me everyday 

[mapsontheweb]

Possible Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruption.

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it’s possible.

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these quarantined days...

it is april. the year 2020. instead of having flying cars and super sonic trains, we have a pandemic that unleashed itself last december from wuhan, china.

i came back from mexico about a week and a half ago and straight into a 14 day quarantine. i am grateful to be alive but also really fucken bored.

i miss making work. i miss my jogs. i miss my hikes. i miss my solo time.

the hand soap in my ma’s restroom and the hand lotion my sister gave me smell too much like mall perfume and give me a baby headache every time i use them.

it’s been raining these last couple of days. shit seems bleak.

[music-is-my-life-man]

Photos From Nirvana’s Underwater “Nevermind” Shoot

[lourdesjimenezpulido]

búsqueda, 2019.

highfired stoneware clay, wooden frames, altered Lotería cards, cloth, soil, string, found objects, buttons, waxed string. installation size varies.

“búsqueda” means “search.”

búsqueda was actually really fun to install. it took so long, it was a tedious drag but i enjoyed how it came out. i really got into string and color in 2019. this is as site-specific as it gets. i curated this particular show and had to see all the other pieces before i was able to see how my work would flow in.

for this installation, i knew i wanted to bring together pieces from previous works, as i tend to do. i also knew i wanted to incorporate string into it since it is such a strong visual indicator of connectivity. the idea was to make a focal sculpture that would branch out and connect all the other parts of the installation. i like the landscape these pieces ended up creating and i loved how the string running through each piece reminded me of electrical lines out in our surroundings.

glimpses of places and people are represented in the objects here. ideas of spreading, self awareness, hybridity, duality, and growth are manifested in this exhibition.

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porque tu vida ha vivido en mi, 2018.

found objects, metal, wire, wood, cloth, altered Lotería cards, high fired stoneware clay. installation size varies.

porque tu vida ha vivido en mi translates to “because your life has lived in me.” 

all of my work deals with ideas of family and culture, traditions, narratives and the accumulation of sentimental objects that tell the stories of our lives. i had gone to méxico a couple of times in the past two years. one of the things i collected during those trips was an apron from a local tianguis in a town close to where my parents grew up.

that was the inspiration for the piece. at the time i was there, my grandma was still alive. it was the last time i saw her. she passed a couple of months after i came back. this got me thinking of all the people that have come into my life, my journey in art, and the places i want to still go.

the piece begins with white geometric objects spewing more white objects. the objects are white but immediately begin to get mixed with color and other media. i wanted this piece to visually express growth from a formal mentality to a more authentic and cultural one. i fought bringing my culture in my work for a long time but i was just kidding myself.

i am my culture and the history of my family. all of my family. and i regret so much not having spent more time with my grandma when she was still here. it is a burden i carry with me every day. i see her in the aprons on the wall and in the purple ribbon tied in her memory.

gracias.

lourdes jiménez pulido

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Chíngale, stoneware, cloth, wire, acrylic paint, 25 in x 10 in x 25 in, 2017.

[Chingar is probably the most commonly used bad word is all of méxico. Its origins have negative associations but in contemporary times, it has come to also include positive expressions and affiliations. It can be used to define any of the following expression or emotion: annoyance, irritation, anger, contempt, excitement, impatience, associates negativity to any object or person it is referred to, horseplay, physical violence such as blows or punches, cool/badass/awesome, admiration, reverence, can express disbelief, can refer to time or distance, or without doubt it is the most popular way to say ‘go to hell.’]

‘Chíngale’ is a piece I made reminding me to always look at the positive side of situations and circumstances. Duality and bilingualism is something I deal with on an everyday basis. I choose both sides of my identity; always and unapologetically a mexicana living in the States. Always, for my parents who gave up their American dreams so that I could have mine. 

With all that life throws at us, we keep going, moving forward, blooming, and making it work. ¡a chingarle! 

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We. Are. #TeamFamily.