yoshitaka amano

This man has been my favourite artist since I was 11 (and also introduced me to Gustav Klimt). You can find many more high quality images of his work at this gallery.

incomplete, yet with absolutely no sense of loss

    

    

    

    

etchings by Susan Aldworth
Susan Aldworth's art explores the nature of consciousness. In 1999, the experience of observing her brain live on a monitor during a diagnostic brain scan triggered an ongoing fascination with the relationship between the physical brain and the sense of self. Since then Aldworth has worked and collaborated with doctors, neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, etchers, artists and musicians in pursuit of this elusive project. She has observed numerous brain scans in hospitals and undergone research brain scans herself to try to make sense of the material basis of personality. In parallel with these investigations she has experimented with etching techniques in collaboration with master etcher Nigel Oxley and developed a radical method whose chemical processes are analogous to those in the brain that might be responsible for personality.

Found at but does it float, my favourite blog right now.

cats in the post

( James Ari King )

Chiharu Shiota

      

      







      





      











If you live nearby London, you can see her work currently in the Hayward Gallery until September. I doubt I'll be able to make it :(
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cabinet of curiosities

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I need to visit this library, the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It completely fills all my allusions towards neomedievalism and "fantasy" (not to totally geek out, but, you know...).

I'm so enamoured with the aesthetic of books, particularly old battered ones. A couple of my friends in Manchester study Design & Art Direction and their tutor, Sue Platt has done some wonderful things with books.



















I adore handmade notepads (I'm so particular about writing only on brown paper though! Anything else has to endure a nice long bath in tea or coffee...). I take my notepads everywhere with me, I'd be lost without them. I'm forever whipping it out to jot down thoughts or note down things to remember or look up. People always ask at this point to have a gander through it, but to me that'd be like them having a little insight right into my brain. No thanks.

El Día de los Muertos

Topshop released their Day Of The Dead collection on their loobook yesterday.

I came across artist Sylvia Ji.The colouring in the last two are just incredible.











A girl called Sara's Sylvia Ji inspired photography.









I bought the first Illustrated People jumper below (in this style, so comfy to laze about in) in the Topshop sale, but I'm really considering the other one now too... (summer clothing, what?)



Nickel rashes have sprouted up again thanks to my penchant for cheap jewellery (I never learn...) and my throat feels like I've swallowed a giant spider overnight. I really must make a point of selling on all my cheap jewellery.

To do today:
Tidy the post-apocalyptic deadline mess
Drink my body weight in tea