From left to right: Pacific Northwest*, Batman, Padmasambhava Rainbow, Hindu festival
*if anyone knows the name / origin of this image, please let me know
inspiration
pollinators: bienenhaus /
Swiss German, German and Slovenian apiaries; Tibetan and Nepalese prayer flags
inspiration: cool colorful crystals /
Top row, left to right: Graham Caldwell, Elyse Graham, Olafur Eliasson
Bottom row, left to right: Jen Stark, Josef Foletti, Kelly Heaton
inspiration: primal /
Incredibly powerful art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mostly from continental Africa, with a few American. Lastly, several works by Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth and Alexander Calder on 5M at the Whitney
inspiration: leviathan /
Admission to the 2014 Whitney Biennial is not worth $20 IF BUT to see Leviathan by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab.
inspiration: mcqueen bee /
Sarah Burton's 2012 collection for Alexander McQueen
spirit world: ash wednesday /
Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central and considered very holy. Illustration by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (1886)
wild card: mardi gras indians /
Top row, left to right: Big Chief Alfred Doccette (photo K. Edwards); Allison Tootie Montana; Chief Cheyenne (photo A. Henriquez)
Bottom row, left to right: photo from house of dance and feathers; Big Chief Victor Harris sewing his costume; Chief Iron Horse & the Black Seminoles