He acts with a certain guilt only found in those who, in the course of time, break your heart and then go on to live it again.. but this time in reverse.
Sometimes we get so caught up in our world that we forget how much of this Earth is not our own. How much we have never seen. How little we know this ancient soil.
Here are some pictures from a NASA satellite that prove just how beautiful the natural world can be. I think the ultimate goal of us as designers (and artists for that matter) is to achieve the exact, effortless perfection you only see in the spontaneity and complexity of nature. We learn from its angles, its color palette, its movement.
But indeed it can never be beat.
// Roads & Fields in Egypt
// Betsiboka River in Madagascar
// Bandar Abbas in Iran
I love the movement of this installation by Zaha Hadid for a retail store in Tokyo. The way the curves surround each other and yet pass by so closely without a word. I see starched sleeves, layer upon layer, standing out from the body, not following its space. White cotton. Armor even. It’s just so powerful.
Here are some beautiful examples of just how romantic calligraphy can be. They remind me flowers blooming in the Spring, softly weaving the scent of their bouquets in the breeze like the hint of perfume on stationery.
“You wrote me oh so many letters, and all of them seemed true.
Promises look good on paper, especially from you, from you..”
I love the destructive atmosphere of these paintings by Dan Reisinger. They are so industrial yet seem so fragile. Each image is vulnerable – no line is complete, no color is solid. They stand as they are. In a void of uncertainty, propped up by what our association tells us to see. Beams that don’t support. Heights that don’t reach. If what we see isn’t truly there, how much does that speak of our powers of perception?
// Disturbingly beautiful photographs by Chantal Michel
with a caption that very roughly translates to:
“During the entire time, the children grew and grew and were just one question while the helpless adults and a great smile shrank and shrank. “- 2003
I need a better translator..
I really like these paintings by Amy Casey. She gives life to the houses by rendering them almost like they are their own characters in a fairy tale of long ago. There is movement, personality, and a certain nostalgia apparent here. Sorta reminds me of those beautiful ads I’ve been seeing around for Pixar’s new feature film, Up. Based on the adventures of a high-flying house supported by a thousand helium balloons, the film calls out for a youth-like return to optimism and wonder. You can watch the sneak peek here. Pixar, you have done it again :]
