Category: General

This is an altered crosswalk sign in Santa Fe, NM

Kathy Knaus’ cake that looks like the interior of a public library. You can see all her cakes on her facebook page

Today is the last day of Banned Book Week, celebrating the freedom to read. Below is my matchbox about banned books. Find out more about Banned Book Week here.

Site Santa Fe (a local gallery) has an exhibit called “Unsettled Landscapes,” where I saw this work entitled “The Great Tree” by Miler Lagos. The sign accompanying the piece says “Lagos pays homage to the majestic Ceiba tree… standing over 14 feet high, this massive paper sculpture is carved from over three tons of recycled newsprint. To create it, Lagos unfolded, stacked, bound and carved thousands of pages from Santa Fe’s local newspaper, The New Mexican.” Below the picture is a very short video I took of the gallery attendant ruffling the pages of the tree.
If you’re in the area, the exhibit is well worth seeing. It’s in the gallery until Jan 11, 2015.

[youtube J0ogzyfxV0I]

(If the video doesn’t show up, click here to see it.)

Stumbled across this art dispensing machine here in Santa Fe over the weekend. The sign says “Put in $5, pull the knob, and ker-plunk you’re an art collector” My friend Tracey & I are now proud owners of 2 little pieces of art.

This is Tracey’s art-o-mat purchase. It’s an original watercolor (lower left) by Trish Randall, packaged in a little teeny shopping bag and came with some seed paper (lower right) that is meant to be planted

This is the piece I got. It’s by Corey Okada and part of an edition called “paintings of safety & danger”

Find out about the art-o-mat project here and the 2 in Santa Fe, in particular, here

The other day I wrote about a color exquisite corpse book. This is a 3D version, using blocks. I found it here