Spring in my yard, Spring on my mind ...
open studio: making maquette /
Every time I find myself wanting a laser cutter, which is almost daily since 1998, I am reminded that making things by hand is a rocky road with far greater discovery than CAD (computer-aided design). With all due respect to machinery, manual craftsmanship offers (this) artist an education that beats the pants off of machine manufacturing.
wild card: a tourist in NYC /
Top row, left to right: a pretty wall in Chinatown; two pics through a street grate (aka where cell phones go to die); one of Sterling Ruby's ugly-beautiful-stupid-smart ashtrays at the Whitney
Bottom row, left to right: one of Keith Mayerson's great paintings, wrongfully displayed on the 3rd floor of the 2014 Whitney Biennial; Fabergé Lilies-of-the-Valley Basket at the Met; my reflection in a pastel drawing by Lucas Samaras; Masqueraders by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, also at the Met. I took many photos at the fabulous Metropolitan Museum… more later.
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.
open studio: sunlight /
In honor of daylight savings, return of the sun.
Kelly Heaton, sun studies in watercolor and ink, 2009 - 2012
inspiration: mcqueen bee /
Sarah Burton's 2012 collection for Alexander McQueen
open studio: casting comb /
Casting resin hands and honeycomb for a work in progress. Kelly Heaton, March 2014
spirit world: ash wednesday /
Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central and considered very holy. Illustration by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (1886)