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Bodacious Body…

28 Wednesday Sep 2011

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Art, Figure Drawing, Laetitia Casta, Nude, Photography, postaweek 2011

© Joan Currie - Charcoal on Paper

It’s a natural state. I’ve seen more vulgarity in people wearing clothes.
Laetitia Casta 

Strut it!

Call to Action…

26 Monday Sep 2011

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beautiful, Photography, postaweek 2011, Virginia Woolf

© 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.

Inukshuk…

22 Thursday Sep 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Design, Photography, Reflections, Travel

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beautiful, British Columbia, Burrard Inlet, Inukshuk, Loren Eiseley, Photography, postaweek 2011, The Seawall, West Vancouver

© 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.

Plump Peonies…

10 Saturday Sep 2011

Posted by Satin & Sand in Art, Garden, Photography, Reflections

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beautiful, Oil painting, Peonies, Photography, postaweek 2011

© 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.

Globby Purple & Green Throw…

27 Saturday Aug 2011

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beautiful, Craft, Knitting, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Photography, postaweek 2011, Wool throw

© 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).

Globby Royal Blue Throw…

25 Thursday Aug 2011

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beautiful, Crafts, Knitting, Photography, postaweek2011, Wool throw

© 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.

African Beads…

23 Tuesday Aug 2011

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African beads, Bob Ross, Fashion Accessory, Photography, postaweek 2011, watercolor

©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.

Ceramic Vessels…

12 Friday Aug 2011

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Anaïs Nin, beautiful, Beauty, ceramic vessels, Design, Photography, postaweek 2011

© 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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Coastal Flowers…

31 Sunday Jul 2011

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beautiful, California coastal flowers, Photography, postaweek 2011, Vincent van Gogh

© 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.

Driftwood Tepe…

15 Friday Jul 2011

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beautiful, Dakota Indian saying, Driftwood tepe, Photography, postaweek 2011

© Joan Currie

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. – Dakota Indian saying

By nightfall, this driftwood tepe will be aflame.

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