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Now I’m catching up to speed, huh? I’m finally about comfy with where I’m at. And now I really mean it – I’ll slow down to just one a day, and I’ll try my very best to keep up with the one a day.

I’m participating in 30 Days of Blogging Honesty, a blogging event created by Tom Baker and Cherlyn Cochrane; you can check out the rules and see all of the prompts right here.

Day 08 — If I could afford it, the piece of famous artwork you would find in my home is…

Perhaps one of these large George Korsmit pieces?

stole this pic from the artful desperado's blog.

another george korsmit, this one is from over here.

Check out more about Korsmit here, at a cool blog that I love to regularly read, The Artful Desperado.

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What I’d probably love to have the most is a display of Charles Clary boxes.

The Artful Desperado also did a recent feature on these amazing handcut paper boxes made by Charles Clary. I just recently learned of this artist and his technique, but I am so into them. I find myself looking up pics at random times, and I keep imagining how they’re made… I fantasize about trying to do something similar on my own.

The cuts are so cool or ornate, and the color palettes are so perfect. I’m in awe of artists who have such an awesome command of colors, and who goes with who, complimentary tones and shades.

Idk, these just evoke so much wonder for me. Check them out:

a charles clary box - looks like stalagmites, right?

it's like a brain or the magical insides of some flower.

i found this one on a tumblr of tagged charles clary boxes. so awesome.

Art is one of those things, it’s SUCH a huge topic. Just pick an art you like. Oh man. I like oh so many arts. I can literally think of thousands of pieces I’d die to own. And my house is hardly the kind with gallery walls and legit lighting. But still, I love artwork of all kinds.

One of my recent regrets is never truly studying art. I wish I’d have taken at least a survey class at some point. I wish I had a command of art school jargon, so I could talk about a painting that I like and not sound like an idiot/hack/poser/child. I wish I could stroll through a museum and cough up a reasonable reaction to what I see.

It’s also like having a song in your head. As long as I’m looking at these Charles Clary boxes, I just can’t think of other choices. I’m trying to avoid being trite and saying something famous enough that everyone and anyone can recognize. And I don’t want to be a snooty jerkenstein and try to mention something all fancy and rare, unheard of – just for the sake of knowing/liking stuff that isn’t mainstream.

And well, just spitting out a couple recent posts from a blog I follow isn’t very original or clever either, now is it?

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I’d be HONORED to own any piece from Jake Roth’s Pathways collection.

here's an image from pathways, one of the safest ones that i can post here.

Be very careful, these are artistic nudes and they are so NSFW. They’re incredible though. Here’s the link to buy prints, so you can see the collection. Jake is an amazing photog and a personal friend, I love this series and I’m honored to actually be a part of it. I won’t pretend that mine photos are the best though, and there are so many others I’d prefer to have over my own.

It’s still so cool to be a part of something so pretty, that’s so well received by most everyone who encounters the collection.

My Dad and Stepmom own one of the coffee-table books that Jake printed, and I think it’s really awesome actually. They’re very supportive and not judgmental, they appreciate the project for the beauty of what it is. Maybe that’s weird for some people, but I’m comfy with my participation in Pathways – it’s natural, it’s very symbolic (I was able to choose my path, and the locations I shot in represent a lot to me), and it’s all about coming through life’s challenges, making our own paths, finding our way – and I’m proud of my own path, where I’ve come from and where I’m going.

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and finally…

I’d be cool with having a Herakut mural in my house.

a herakut piece in germany, link here.

Typically street art, it would be kinda wack to have something just up in my living room – and I could never imagine anything contained in a frame. But to have them actually come and make something inside our house would be so rad.

The style is so creepy and dark, I’m not sure if actually having one in my house would weird me out sometimes? I wonder what visitors would think. I’m so cheerful and homey is my decor choices these days, lol.

When I was in NYC in 2009, my friend Lynnie and I went to a teeny gallery that was showing some Herakut stuffs. We hauled way out of our way to go check it out, because I’d heard about the show on Wooster Collective and I really wanted to see it in real life. I totally liked it, thought it was super cool, and just the feeling of reading something on a blog and then being able to go seek it out for myself was very rad (and not something that often happens when you’re from the sticks!)

my own snapshot from the nyc showing in 2009.

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So there you have it: Kormit, Clary, Roth, and Herakut. Interesting hodgepodge, huh? That’s so me, though. I could keep going, I assure. And if I did… the mix would just wackier and wackier. I’m sure I’d start to get some tacky Americana handicraft stuff, Amish quilts, more photography… who knows what else. Like I said, this is one of those things that’s so massively wide open and broad, it’s just about impossible to make any kind of real narrowing down.

Glad you came by to read yet another post TODAY. I know I’m a beast, but at least I’m good and caught up now!

As always, thanks for reading!! xoxo, hhr

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