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
inspiration
inspiration: when hay freezes over /
I forgot to turn off water to the horse trough. Wet hay froze on the ground nearby - beautiful.
inspiration: how to cast resin /
Documentation of sculptor Ron Mueck's process
inspiration: okunoin cemetary /
pollinators: long live the queen /
Top row (from left to right): Heaton, work in progress; Aganetha Dyck; Arthur Rackham
Bottom row (from left to right): Queen of the Sun; John Anster; unknown artist c.1620
pollinators: grim dead bees /
My bee yard is grim. Last Fall, one hive died from the cold and the another just left. I was really sad to lose them … I loved my bees, which may be hard to understand unless you keep them yourself. I will start again this Spring with local nucs instead of Georgia packages (2014).
inspiration: artist as shaman /
via Sarah Loy, thank you!
Alan Moore says "There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as "the art". I believe this is completely literal."
inspiration: material girl monday /
Top row, from left to right: The Fool; Internet shopping; juggling limited finances
Bottom row, from left to right: The Fool overturned; detail from Jaro Hess' "The Land of Make Believe" (1930); the artist back at work. Tarot cards are from the Rider deck.