
© Joan Currie - Charcoal on Paper
It’s a natural state. I’ve seen more vulgarity in people wearing clothes.
Laetitia Casta
Strut it!
28 Wednesday Sep 2011
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© Joan Currie - Charcoal on Paper
It’s a natural state. I’ve seen more vulgarity in people wearing clothes.
Laetitia Casta
Strut it!
26 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in Art, Photography, Reflections

© Joan Currie
[The history of most women is] hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. Virginia Woolf
It is time to be the heroine of our own stories.
22 Thursday Sep 2011
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© Joan Currie
Sometimes the rare, the beautiful, can only emerge or survive in isolation. In a similar manner, some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man’s creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. – Loren Eiseley from The Night Country
When I shifted my focus from the water to the shore, I beheld many acts of creation.
10 Saturday Sep 2011
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© Oil painting by Mona Currie
Peonies are the overblown floozies of the garden. – Mona Currie
These flowers are the happiest when they are the center of attention.
27 Saturday Aug 2011
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© Knitted by Joan Currie
I know well that happiness is in little things… – John Ruskin
I stayed up late finishing another throw – and really enjoyed designing the generous fringe! The inspiration for the colors came from Nirvana’s Come As You Are performance video – Rome 1991 (the green spotlight on Kurt Cobain’s hair, especially).
25 Thursday Aug 2011
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© Knitted by Joan Currie
Yarn spun in this luxurious way turns a simple knitting project into high art!
I just finished knitting this very textured wool throw and love the result! The King of Rock and Roll’s Blue Suede Shoes kept me on task.
23 Tuesday Aug 2011
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©Joan Currie
All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind. – Bob Ross
I am fascinated by the beautiful shapes and colors in this section of a strand of beads from West Africa.
12 Friday Aug 2011
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© Joan Currie
And what is my true nature?… Is mine idealism, spirituality, poetry, imagination, sense of beauty, a need of beauty, a fundamental Rimbaud innocence, a certain purity? I need to create. – Anaïs Nin
I love the sensual biomorphic lines of the vessels in the foreground.
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31 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. – Vincent van Gogh
I turned away from the shore and discovered another kind of beauty in the riot of flowers bounded by a weathered fence.
15 Friday Jul 2011
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