slide show

Lauren DiCioccio's work explores mass-media objects that are becoming obsolete in the wake of recent technological developments. I especially love her treatment of color slides, the painstakingly detailed work of reproducing them with embroidery, a traditional craft, rendering them even more personal & nostalgic.

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dress me up

It's all in the details...

It's cold & sleeting here, & the sun is diving behind the trees so quickly now. I find my mind wandering to holiday parties, roaring fires, rich food, warming cocktails & dreamy dresses.

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I love how simply elegant & feminine these festive frocks are, made from skimming silks & light wools with subtle folds & drapes to add a little interest & movement to an otherwise simple line. The grommet detail on the sleeve of the topmost dress especially caught my fancy. I can imagine each of them paired with a cozy wrap, lacey tights & my heeled motorcycle boots (I do live in Vermont, after all!).

happy weekend

This weekend we meet my parents for a dinner date while they are in town minding my sister's shop, do some yard work & hopefully get a hike in & catch up with some friends. Happy weekend to all!

winter woolies

A nip in the air & fall hikes...

felted wool baubles

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hello i love you

I love these playful prints, & how aptly they convey so much, so simply & elegantly. The Godard vs. Woody print especially made me smile.

 

hitchcock prints here

paris vs. new york prints here

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stitching bone

Ben Cuevas astounding knit piece, Transcending the Material, was created while in residence at the Wasaic Project arts collective in New York State. The anatomical detail is absolutely mind-boggling. I love the choice of bone, the hard stuff of our architecture, made from a soft wooly yarn.

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this is beautiful

In the early 1900s, a banker named Albert Kahn, convinced that knowledge of foreign cultures encourages respect & peace among nations, embarked upon a monumental task: to amass a photographic record of life around the world, The Archive of the Planet. The stock market crash in 1929 put an end to his venture, & his collection of black & white film & more than 72,000 autochrome plates from over 50 countries was confiscated by the Prefecture of the Seine. They later became the property of the Conseil General of Hauts-de-Seine, which created a museum in 1986 to house the collection.

The Lumiére Brothers made Autochrome, the first industrial process for true color photography, available commercially in June 1907. Based on the fact that all colors can be made from combinations of three primary colors, fine layers of microscopic grains of potato starch dyed either red-orange, green or violet blue combined with black carbon particles were spread over a glass plate where they were combined with a black and white photographic emulsion to create the incredible range of palettes pictured above.

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