30.7.10

dear atelier,
















all photos: atelier



japantown
















midsummer mitford



to mark a mid-summer
mitford moment on
splendid little augury
(go, see)








increasingly random








working this week on one of my
favorite projects, and the client
pulled (from folder) a bit of scratch
paper on which, many months ago,
i'd been thinking (there were a
lot of arrows). today, noticed
these strange little photos from
(also) months ago and realized: when
thinking, i sure do like arrows






Random thoughts from
three different projects:
trellis, porch, fence;
event design;
tiny backyard cabana created
with salvaged materials.






















sketches: vt





graffiti






scratched into
a choir balcony
in lermoos






28.7.10





"What is important?
What makes me get out of bed every morning?
What attaches me to this place?
How can I continue to evolve?
These are the questions I ask in this work and for me the answer lies in the feelings one has for others, in the love for one’s family.

These are the basic, essential things."

- Andre Cepada





Thanks to David John. Again.




















24.7.10

summer night



long days,
full moon.
no better light.







mnemonic



looking at the photo,
i can only tell you that
these two walls painted
these two colors had the
most unexpected shock
of loveliness and it is
very difficult to explain;
it created (on that hot
muggy day) the most
vibrant, alluring elegy
to these women of the
bauhaus. i wish you
could see it in person.


(there's no
forgetting)









what she does with flowers,


how she sees them,
good lord; it does
pry the doors of the
universe wide open














20.7.10

exponential




This is my favorite new blog.

I've begun to realize that most of the people I admire
beyond all possibility of explanation are, or have been
at some time, teachers. There's really no way to completely
comprehend how much the influence of one good teacher
can change a single life (yours?). The truly great teachers
might do this hundreds (thousands?) of times. And
changing just one life is really a pretty big deal, isn't it?


How can anyone fully explain the amount of admiration this merits?




Teach?












photo from here


19.7.10

corners of heaven


while travelling, it occurred to me that we
make our roadmap of heaven here on earth.
what we choose to do. how we live it.

above, a photo that looks to me to be
a corner of a heaven: valéry lorenzo's studio.
there are other corners of heaven that seem
to have been showing up. perhaps it helps to notice them.

in our tiny slice of california, it is hot and beautiful.
i note that certainly (though it is in need of
a little tlc and a lot of water) one corner happens, thankfully,
to be right in our backyard.


good to be home.







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