Film Friday - Flight of the Pigeon

Hi everyone,

I am heading off to New York next week for the Etsy Seller's Advisory Board so this film seemed fitting for my Film Friday because it is set in New York.

The first few lines of the film also summed up my feelings (or lack of!) for pigeons but I found it really beautiful how the artist Duke Riley talks about taking time to look at the world around you.

This film totally shifts your perspective from viewing pigeons as mundane, ugly and something you ignore to a creature of beauty, resilience and intelligence.

The film is beautifully shot and watching them fly is somewhat mesmerising.



Flight of the Pigeon from NewYorker on Vimeo.


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Film Friday - Portraits in the Whitney Collection

Hello everyone,

I hope that you have all had a wonderful week. As you might know, I have recently started blogging again after a long long break. Really excited to get going again. I was looking back over my blog and deciding which features to keep and continue and which to not continue and come up with new ideas. The Film Friday feature that I used to fun was one of my favourite features on my blog so was one I couldn't wait to bring back.

Often when life gets busy and you are constantly on the go it is difficult to find time to sit down and just enjoy something without doing anything else or thinking of anything else. I think this is such an important thing to do. For me, watching a short film/ clip does just that, it takes just 5 minutes out of your day to think of something new and exciting and to just relax and stop for a bit.

I hope that you get the same feeling by watching the videos which I will be posting over the next few weeks.

This one I thought was particularly beautiful. It was from a series that the Whitney museum did and here, artist Martha Wilson discusses John Coplan's work as well as her own.


Human Interest: Martha Wilson on John Coplans from Whitney Museum of American Art on Vimeo.

"Everyone is here in their bodies until they are no longer alive...I think that's one of my goals as well, to try to be honest, to try to be unafraid of looking at what's really there" - Martha Wilson

Thanks for reading

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Kate Clark - Taxidermy artist

Photo Credit : Kate Clark

Today I wanted to share with you the amazing work of Brooklyn-based artist Kate Clark.

She uses clay to sculpt human faces and then covers this in animal skin to make her unusual taxidermy and breathtakingly beautiful sculptures.

Kate comes from a background in arts; her father was a painter and it was originally painting which Kate enjoyed and wanted to pursue. It was not until she went to college that she discovered her love for sculpting.

Kate only uses imperfect pelts in her work. Ones that have holes or rips in and are likely to have been thrown away by other taxidermists. She salvages these pelts and turns them into sculptures which are both unsettling and magically beautiful.

Licking the Plate by Kate Clark

Kate says of her work....

"When encountering my sculptures, the viewer is faced with a lifelike fusion of human and animal that investigates which characteristics separate us within the animal kingdom, and more importantly, which unite us. 

Our current lifestyle does not necessitate physical interaction with wild animals. Yet we revere the natural world and are seduced by characteristics we no longer see in ourselves, such as fierceness, instinctiveness, purity. 

The unexpectedness of the human face on these animals also evokes curiosity. They are obviously reconstructed yet they are not monstrous, they are approachable, natural, calm, innocent, dignified. The facial features are believable and the skin, which is the animal’s skin, has been shaved to reveal porous and oily features that we recognize as our own. The viewer has an intimate relationship with the face and then identifies with the animal, acknowledging the animalistic inheritance within the human condition."

In this short video she talks to National Geographic who filmed her in her studio over a 2 month period.

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Wordless Wednesday - Vintage cats AND tea cups..... the best combination ever?!

Hello everyone,

Hope you are having a great week so far.  Every Wednesday I post a photograph with no words as part of Wordless Wednesday. On Wednesdays Bloggers around the world take part in Wordless Wednesday and the idea is the photograph says enough as it is that it doesn't need a description.

Cute cats in teacups, perfect combination! #cats #teacups #vintage #vintagehome #ornaments #kitsch #cute #instadaily #lblogger

A photo posted by The Dorothy Days (@thedorothydays) on Jul 28, 2015 at 10:09pm PDT

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Style Saturday - Creative weekends outfit

Hello everyone,

Hope that you are all having a wonderful weekend so far. Today is my Style Saturday so I thought I would share with you all this outfit collection. I love creative weekends and so this outfit would be perfect for just that and would be stylish too! The jumper looks super comfy and cosy and I love the jeans too but my favourite has to be the shoes, I LOVE them!

What is your favourite part of this outfit? Let me know in the comment section below 

Wordless Wednesday - Cat Graffiti

On Wednesdays all over the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it on their blog. Hence the ‘wordless’ title. The idea is that the photo itself says so much that it doesn’t need any description.

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Quote of the Week - Andy Warhol

Quote of the week this week is for any artists reading this......


"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." 
— Andy Warhol

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Today I have been....

…..eating ridiculous amounts of banoffee pie (it is just so good!), drinking lots of Earl Grey, meeting lovely local Etsy sellers, photographing new items for my shop, shipping orders off to their new homes and trying to work out why I have quite so many jumpers!!

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