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So, a very nice thing happened on facebook recently. A friend of mine posted up a link to a piece of artwork that I had seen before and loved, I commented on it, and then it turned out that the artist was also a friend of my friend and so thanked me for my comment - since then we’ve become facebook friends too and mutual admirers of our art. I love it when things like that happen.
The artist in question is Chantal Powell. She makes beautiful and exquisite pieces using objects and ephemera to create what she calls ‘visual poetry’ – memories are preserved and narratives are evoked as the viewer pieces the elements together. Chantal is interested in the ‘emotional response to beauty and melancholy’ and romanticism. I find the materials she works with so alluring and I’m drawn in by every one of the works that I’ve seen. I’m very much looking forward to the chance to go and see her work in person some time and I’m hoping to make it along to one of the exhibitions she has coming up this year. Chantal also has a fantastic blog, where she talks about her art, her inspiration, other artists and much more besides. It’s insightful and wonderful so check it out.
Fragile © Chantal Powell 2009
The Lacemakers Guild © Chantal Powell 2009
Today has not been one of my better days, but I’ve certainly had worse. Partly it has managed to scrape into the mid range because of a sparkly thing that universe decided to send my way right in the nick of time. I had set an alarm to make sure I left enough time to write a blog post today and through random image searches happened upon a wonderful blog I had not seen before just as the alarm went off. Thus giving me something to be happy about and something to blog about all at the same time.
Nothing is New is just full of wonderful images curated from all over the internet, historical images, old photographs, ephemera – basically all the stuff that gets me excited.
From the post ‘NYPL OFFLINE!’ by kellyr (Nothing is New) ©kellyr
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