Cristian Barnett's Arctic Photography

Do yourself a huge favor and go look at these AMAZING photos by Cristian Barnett.

Erin Duquette: Artist

The amazing Erin Duquette has just posted a poetic loveliness about hoods 
on her blog. PLEASE check it out: WRAPPED IN THOUGHT.

Image by Erin Duquette, All Rights Reserved.

Featured Artist: John Hopper from The Textile Blog

Each day I receive little jewels in my facebook newsfeed: the Textile Blog's amazing photographs of amazing artworks. In between political rants, scandals, and the minutiae of past acquaintances' daily meanderings, these posts trickle in, providing a moment of quiet beauty, awe, and peace. These are grounding moments. These are moments in which I can re-center and remember that the world is a good place. This virtual curation and dissemination of treasures seems to be an art in itself.

Featured Artist: Jose Van Loon

Jose Van Loon is a textile artist from the Netherlands. Visit her webpage: http://www.josevanloon.nl/, and facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jose-van-Loon.

From her webpage (this is Bing-translated  from Dutch):

"I'm trying to turn inside out,
the material is converted into a symbol,
that each one for himself can translate to a new interior."

This art speaks to me of how the wild is viewed by humans, the proprietary nature of humans, moments and breaths caught for analysis, threads binding ancient with modern, the poetics of science. Each piece is an artifact that still lives. Tangled ghost houses under glass. Categorized and labeled. Silent and proper. And infinitely beautiful.