Monday Blues

There's a certain melancholy to some of the images we find/photograph. Whether it's the lighting, color, subject matter or a subjective response to an artist, we see a narrative that is as beautiful as it is sad or haunting.

1. & 2. Jim Joe, Jim Joe, Crosby Street in Soho

3. A peal of birch

4. Deer skull on a barn floor in upstate New York

5. Gary Komarin, Duke & Wigmore Series #1, at Broadbent Gallery

6. Gatoring paint in Athens, New York

7. 19th c. Taxidermy at Silsby Library, New Hampshire

8. Jim Joe, White & Brown, 14th Street

9. Fire escape and netting, Meatpacking District

10. Cy Twombly, Orpheus, 1979 at Tate

I Sea, You Sea

Our trip to the beach a few weeks ago provided rest, inspiration and the company of good friends...as summer winds down, here's a view of the beach from our point of view:

Pilings at the ferry dock, Shelter Island

Driftwood on the beach at Orient, NY

Nina Tolstrup's Modernist Beach House via Mopu42

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Vintage taxidermy at Silsby Library, NH

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Modernist Beach House [2]

Orient, New York

Modernist Beach House [3]

Vintage taxidermy [2]

A still life of textures, Orient

Modernist Beach House [4]

Vintage taxidermy [3]

The Huntress

With taxidermy popping up everywhere from restaurants to clothing stores, it appears that this seemingly masculine art form transcends any perceived gender bias...  

Williamsburg loft of Hovey sisters Hollister and Porter via Ravishing Beasts, from the New York Times. [1]

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Melissa Dixson, Brooklyn based taxidermist at work.

Women resting at the Deer estate in the Scottish Highlands, cira 1800's via Scotlands History.

Where the Wild Things Are

Ram trophy mount we found in Cold Spring, New York.

Ring-necked Pheasant taxidermy we found in Seymour, Connecticut.

Diorama #1, Henning Bock, 1997

Wursa by Daniel Firman for the Superdome exhibition  at the Palais de Tokyo.

Martin D'orgeval Touched By Fire Series via Ravishing Beasts.

Victorian water fowl diorama; past auction at Skinner. 

Victorian bird diorama on auction at Live Auctioneers.

 

Taxidermy by Melissa Dixon via Journal.

Michelangelo Meucci Trompe l'Oeil bird study on auction at Skinner.