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Last May, I visited an art gallery in the awesome little community of Dunedin, Florida. There are many things that could be said about Florida, but among them is that there's a lot of passion for art there. It may not be uniformly represented across the state, but there are enclaves and communities and so on. One of the exhibitions there had to do with found objects, I believe, and one of the artists was Aganetha Dyck. I may have linked to her work before, back when I first saw it. One of her techniques involves using objects and beehives to create effects like you can see here:
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Back when I first became acquainted with her work, it made me think of Cat Valente's Palimpsest (this is not a hard thing to do, internets). What's an interesting confluence is that when I left Florida, it was to go to Madison, for WisCon 34, which is where I first heard![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tithenai read aloud one of the entries in her book The Honey Month, which... if my brain isn't drawing the wrong connections in the wrong places... may have been inspired or gained impetus from Palimpsest.
If anybody ever asked the question, "Is blogging art? Can a blog book be an artistic work?", The Honey Month is the answer to that question, and that answer is: "Yes. Of course. What are you, ignorant or something?" I didn't think of it as a blog book at the time, or even until I started typing this post.
For one month, Amal sampled a honey each day and wrote her impressions of it, and a short piece inspired by them. And she blogged about it on her LJ, and those blog entries became a book, a rich and gorgeous and sticky-sweet book. This year she's re-blogging it, doing re-runs with extra DVD commentary.
So check out some more of Aganetha's work, and browse Amal's sweet and golden reminisces... and if they intrigue you, consider the book.
(It's worth poking around the publisher's website, too. Papaveria Press has some awesome people putting out material.)
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Oh, and there's only a week to go, so lest I forget again:
Get your own valentinr
Yes, I have a Valentinr. I've always worried that these things would just be trollbait, but I'm learning to be open to good things looking for a way in.
Last May, I visited an art gallery in the awesome little community of Dunedin, Florida. There are many things that could be said about Florida, but among them is that there's a lot of passion for art there. It may not be uniformly represented across the state, but there are enclaves and communities and so on. One of the exhibitions there had to do with found objects, I believe, and one of the artists was Aganetha Dyck. I may have linked to her work before, back when I first saw it. One of her techniques involves using objects and beehives to create effects like you can see here:
(Click for source.).
Back when I first became acquainted with her work, it made me think of Cat Valente's Palimpsest (this is not a hard thing to do, internets). What's an interesting confluence is that when I left Florida, it was to go to Madison, for WisCon 34, which is where I first heard
tithenai read aloud one of the entries in her book The Honey Month, which... if my brain isn't drawing the wrong connections in the wrong places... may have been inspired or gained impetus from Palimpsest.If anybody ever asked the question, "Is blogging art? Can a blog book be an artistic work?", The Honey Month is the answer to that question, and that answer is: "Yes. Of course. What are you, ignorant or something?" I didn't think of it as a blog book at the time, or even until I started typing this post.
For one month, Amal sampled a honey each day and wrote her impressions of it, and a short piece inspired by them. And she blogged about it on her LJ, and those blog entries became a book, a rich and gorgeous and sticky-sweet book. This year she's re-blogging it, doing re-runs with extra DVD commentary.
So check out some more of Aganetha's work, and browse Amal's sweet and golden reminisces... and if they intrigue you, consider the book.
(It's worth poking around the publisher's website, too. Papaveria Press has some awesome people putting out material.)
...
Oh, and there's only a week to go, so lest I forget again:
Get your own valentinr
Yes, I have a Valentinr. I've always worried that these things would just be trollbait, but I'm learning to be open to good things looking for a way in.