Nature
Forest Through the Trees
In my search for this Airbus print ad below, which sums up visually the sense that I can finally start to see the forest through the trees, I came across these short films for Airbus: http://realenergy.shell.com/?lang=en&page=GTLAirport&site_version=html I love their creative, pop-up quality, which reminds me of one of the reasons I also like Pushing Daisies. I also love looking up through the trees to the sky. It makes you find your humble place. This ad is beautiful with the fall colors against that brilliant blue vista (and jet silhouette). After a rough year, a really rough week and a two month delay in launching my new product-line business, we’re almost…
Hex Signs
Thinking of the “Eye” of the [Gustav] Storm and “the evil eye” and “putting a hex on you” sayings, as well as my previous post below, Demystifying Hex Signs, the Colorful Soul of Pennsylvania Dutch Decor, was an interesting article by Mariella Savidge featured in the Washington Post. I like symbols and I have used many in my illustration work as well as my murals. I learned a lot from this article about the meaning of hex signs — typically used for good luck, particularly painted on the side of barns by the Pennsylvania Dutch. Some symbols date back to Norse and even pagan art and were sometimes used as…
Back to School & Mysterious Eyes
Coming back from dropping off our younger son at his school, we saw these pretty cool, googly eyes starring at us from across the Worlds Fair Park in Knoxville, TN. They are affixed to the Knoxville Museum of Art, with their motto, “Open your eyes. Open your mind.” How true. I actually liked how these eyes appeared watchful over the park. They didn’t seem eerie just artistic, but they did seem to follow us…We had another great stay in Knoxville on our way home from Sewanee, TN. It’s always hard when my boys go back to school and there is an adjustment period of getting use to being an empty…
