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
Posted in Design, Photography, Reflections, Travel
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© Joan Currie
…we progress from being voyeurs, which we always are when we look at other people’s pictures, to excavators, combining our memories for what we may recognize from our own family albums, from our own lives. We look for us. – Michael Kimmelman
This lifeguard chair on Vancouver’s North Shore evokes very strong memories of my summers as a pool lifeguard.
22 Thursday Sep 2011
Posted in Art, Design, Photography, Reflections, Travel
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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.
15 Thursday Sep 2011
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© Lauren DiMarco
Elle ne pas prude, mais ne se dévoile jamais tout de suite. Elle est célébrale, tout en étant sexy. Elle est chic, avec une pointe d’irrévérence. C’est ce twist permanent qui la fait pétiller aux yeux du monde entier.
Tom Pecheux
And she has a heart of gold.
10 Saturday Sep 2011
Posted in Art, Garden, Photography, Reflections
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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.
06 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted in Photography, Reflections
© Joan Currie
…nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.
Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
The ripple effect from acts of kindness is truly wondrous!
06 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted in Fashion, Photography, Reflections
© Lauren DiMarco – detail
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. – Anaïs Nin
A penny for her thoughts…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
05 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in Fashion, Photography, Reflections
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© Lauren DiMarco
…[she] supplies the beautiful incandescent flesh, the fulgurant voice, the abysmal eyes, the drugged gestures, the presence of a body, the incarnation of our dreams and creations. – Anaïs Nin
Poetic beauty personified…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
02 Friday Sep 2011
Posted in Photography, Reflections, Relationships, Writing
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© Lauren DiMarco
The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
D. H. Lawrence from Lady Chatterley’s Lover
That said, she can have both…
Model: Lauren DiMarco
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27 Saturday Aug 2011
Posted in Art, Crafts, Design, Photography, Reflections
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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).
Satin & Sand 