david hazlett

 artist and printmaker

david hazlett

pay attention

some gems here like this one about being an artist and paying attention:

"i think often you're so limited...first, you can't have your own way, often things fall down.  but second, we're so limited by our cultural beliefs that are so boring, like how we aestheticize things..what you think is a good song or what art should look like...that's always getting in our way of being really present to the possibilities of a situation...random chance or random circumstances give you things that you are not capable of getting to with your own limitations but you can be capable of recognizing that you're being given something and take advantage of and incorporate that into yourself.""

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joanna concejo

french artist/illustrator

joanna concejo

and the gray feather a thrush lost

art and object, made and found

a few things in the shop today

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also,

Try to Praise the Mutilated World

BY ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Try to praise the mutilated world.

Remember June's long days,

and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine.

The nettles that methodically overgrow

the abandoned homesteads of exiles.

You must praise the mutilated world.

You watched the stylish yachts and ships;

one of them had a long trip ahead of it,

while salty oblivion awaited others.

You've seen the refugees going nowhere,

you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.

You should praise the mutilated world.

Remember the moments when we were together

in a white room and the curtain fluttered.

Return in thought to the concert where music flared.

You gathered acorns in the park in autumn

and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.

Praise the mutilated world

and the gray feather a thrush lost,

and the gentle light that strays and vanishes

and returns.

remain open

To keep the heart soft and pliable is necessary to be an artist. Perhaps the heart must be broken often for this to be our natural state.

 via rick beerhorst

glass cabin

clare gill

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original

i put 2 pieces of vintage/antique original art in my shop.

i think you're gonna like them!

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ko ema

these make my heart feel like bursting.

sri threads

two flowers in one pot

"cutie hates bully?"

"oh, cutie loves bully so much."

(you should go see this- i loved it.)

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i'm filling the shop back up again!  

i've got scarves i'm excited about...the dye process has been so enjoyable.  i also have a sweet pile of small dyed black doilies,  a whole lot of real affordable art pieces and some dip dyed crocheted market totes.  

i'll be listing new things all evening and in the next few days!

xo

weekend

it was a good one.  we took some polaroids, found some things at the fleamarket and yard sale.  the little pot above was a dollar, also a dollar- a book about early new england grave stone carving, another in german about chinese landscape art.  also got a cheap old trunk with nice pressed metal and this old painting on paper, the water being my favorite part.

today i'll sand some small salvaged wood pieces i cut over the weekend and work on making some paintings out of them over the week.

many x

many o,

liane

*reminder- while i work on the new things for enhabiten much in the shop is on sale and you can also receive a further 20% discount when you enter the coupon code ADD20 at checkout.

gertrud vasegaard

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corinna staffe jud

 corinna staffe jud, an artist and illustrator based in france, included a couple enhabiten footstools in an exhibition of her work in italy recently.  you can find her website here and blog here.

woodcuts and sale

i've been feeling a little (lot) in love with woodcuts lately.  

above is one by arabella rankin.

you can find more on my art pinterest board here.

also, i just went cray cray in the sale section at enhabiten. 

a third of the shop is currently on sale!

you're gonna find some real good stuff over there, no joke.

just cuz i was in the mood. 

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-xo babies

i wanted to share this with you.

my boy ethan painted a mural on the side of a greenhouse 

at the farm he works at in the summertime.
*you can click on the image to view it larger*

 isn't it freaking great??  i love it and i love this kid.

x

**oh, also...the salvage wood wall pieces i posted about several days ago will be in the shop tomorrow i'm almost sure.  ok?  ok!

i have plans to incorporate wood and metal into my shop this year and that first picture up there is a little peek at a new offering at shop enhabiten.  salvaged wood art/wall pieces will be added early next week.  i can't wait!

and some new cushions and a change/card purse are available now in the shop.

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also, thank you so much, friends, for the comments and emails regarding my sore elbow!  i appreciate the thoughts and the suggestions for healing.  there's kindness out there.  that makes me happy.

x

watch

yes.

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finite erotic creatures

i've got my dye pots and much of the other necessary equipment moved to my new house now and a batch of dyed vintage linens will be in the shop over the next few days.  first, a few tablecloths (one of which could also be a bedspread) should be available by the end of the day today.

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here in new hampshire we were graced with so many beautiful late summer days in the past weeks.  then the rain came.  the turning season feels heavy on me.  it mirrors personal transition and even when i try to turn away from reflecting it maneuvers and i find myself facing it again.

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i can't not mention to you that i've experienced a loss recently in the death of a friend.  my daughter's boyfriend lost his mom last week and the sadness stops me in my tracks many times each day.  michelle was born the same year i was.  she was young.  may she rest in peace and may her child keep her with him always and live the life she'd want him to have.

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in light of all this, a read a couple good essays recently which struck me and my current intense mood.  one can be read here and here's a small excerpt:

It’s exhausting, day in, day out, making choices. Who hasn’t dreamed of a deus ex machina, a magic wand? It’s so much easier to let things slide, to be too stressed out, too busy, too tired or hungover.

But choice is power. It forces you to live in the active present tense, not the editorially lazy passive construction of this-happened-to-me. Make a choice and you can’t abdicate responsibility to the real or perceived will of others or the now of perpetual distraction. Make a choice and you confront the closed mystery of the choice not chosen. If ambivalence is a hallmark of denial, choice is an acceptance of time, mortality, limits.

the other is called "an absorbing errand" by janna malamud smith and it's in the september 2012 issue of the sun.  it's a version of the introduction to the author's new book by the same name.  an excerpt:

we are, as the philosopher and psychoanalyst jonathan lear reminds us, "finite erotic creatures."  i love this phrase because it names succinctly the haunting tension between our expansive desire and our inevitable death.  mastery and creative expression are one way to capture energy from this clash and its conundrums.  not unlike the DNA in our cells, the processes we learn well and the objects we make encapsulate, carry forward, and transmit some portion of us, of our erotic energy, into the world, as much "ours" as any breathing offspring we bear.

the labor pays tribute to death, and yet expresses defiance, as if announcing, "yes, i'm going, but not quietly.  i'm having my say first."  in essence the defiance is about using time and skill to elaborate an expression of feeling-or an object-beyond the crudest utility, and, by doing so, to endow it with an energy, an attractiveness, an aesthetic that invites the interest and recognition of others, sometimes even after much time has passed.  the defiance is the act of giving to the craft more than bare necessity requires, of resisting mortality while acknowledging the futility of the resistance.

Ritsuko Ozeki

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