Banquet Journal

julie morstad

    julie morstad at the brilliance that is collage collage (more on collage collage soon) friday october 23rd to november 25th.   ps i can't even begin to tell you how beautiful these new works ar...

on love letters

      at the end of his life my grandad was a compulsive googly eye sculptor - most were love letters to his second wife, molly. when she passed away there were literally hundreds hidden all over ...

diaghilev

from serge diaghilev and his world: a centennial celebration of diaghilev's ballets russes, found at the library of congress

sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii

jm lent me her beautiful russian textiles book and in doing so led me to the work of russian photographer  sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii (i keep stumbling on more and more of his image...

susan cianciolo

 what a mad, mad summer it has been. i'm still here though -  loving these susan cianciolo pieces from maryam nassir zadeh.  beautiful handwork... esp that bag.

anna k wood

i wanted to share some of anna wood's new work. i had a sneak preview last week, and they are just really great. she also has an amazing apartment, but the pictures i took are terrible - i'll...

lotusland

  Lotusland is an estate and botanic garden near Santa Barbara, featuring an over the top collection of  bromeliads, succulents, water plants, and ferns. Madame Ganna Walska, a Polish oper...

maria callas

For years, I couldn't get over Callas. There is a paparazzi picture of her I had tacked up on my bulletin board in my office. It's a killer-diller! This, to me is Callas. I knew her - just. ...

Niagara Neighbourhood Community Food Centre

My brother Jordan got a mention on Treehugger for his project for Carrot City, an exhibition exploring the possibilities of urban farming in Toronto...

pata pata

and miriam makeba died today - remember this song? and what about that set? and dress?