From Rob Ryan, who usually knows what’s what.
Category Archives: Art
Flotsam
Betty has been – perhaps “inspired” is not the right word; let’s say “transfixed” – transfixed by Natsumi Hayashi’s beautiful levitation photographs of late. Aren’t they lovely?
Photoshop is not the culprit. She jumps. You’re most welcome.
Do not disturb
This lovely piece has disappeared from Damn French Desserts’ etsy store, but since Betty’s home has no doorknobs, it’s just as well; isn’t it sweet?
Career of the week
One from the archives, from a talented small sister.
Lantern Festival
Yesterday the Auckland Lantern Festival opened in Albert Park. Betty and the husband person went out for dinner with a lovely friend, and afterwards they got icecreams and (in Betty’s case) plum sorbet from Giapo on Queen Street and wandered up the hill to see the lanterns. It was early when they got there, but it got darkish not too long afterwards, at least enough to see the lanterns glowing.
They were gorgeous:
There was a farm filled with Chinese cabbages, chickens, sheep, dogs, and a large pig in a pen…
and a snail. And there was a family of cheeky monkeys playing near the clock tower.
Further museum adventures
This afternoon, Betty and the husband person trundled across the Domain and had a quick wander through the Auckland Museum.
First they visited some of their favourites: this little cow, who looks like he might have come, like the husband person, from the late seventies…
And this guy.
But then they explored an exhibit they’d never seen before: a reconstruction of various Auckland shops from the nineteenth century. Do read on…
What we don’t no about heghogs
Love
By the unsettlingly talented Kate McDowell. Beautiful, no?
Grow House Grow
Lest we start to think that the cool kids all paint their apartments in shades of beige or grey, illustrator Katie Deedy has created a range of narrative wallpapers: quirky designs based on various figures from history and literature. They are so beautiful. This one is dedicated to Mary Treat, a nineteenth-century scholar of carnivorous plants.
Other designs are based on the work of such people as Jeanne Villepreux-Power, the “mother of aquariophily”, and a pioneering female macalogist (mollusk expert, for those readers still straggling); Christopher (an unidentified childhood friend, patently Christopher Robin); and Edward John Smith of the HMS Titanic.
Their lovely website is called Grow House Grow. Such splendid stuff.
Extraordinary Andy
Betty went back to the home of her youth on the weekend: always good for a giggle, don’t you find. While she was there, she had the privilege of viewing some of her small sister’s art. The child, as devoted readers will know, is a genius. Read it and weep.
(no relation)
