Daily Poetics

...And here the last words your fingers wrote, Scrawled in broad characters across a page In this brown book I gave you.

Link: Secret Leaves paperworks Home.

"We are sitting in our cozy home studio listening to music and crafting beautiful things from paper.  We are fascinated by the stranger parts of nature and use images from the natural world in the things we create. We are enamored with vintage ephemera and constantly hunting for "treasures". We recycle whenever we can.

Most of all, we are happy to be doing what we love. "  -Secret Leaves Paperworks

Title Quote: Edna St. Vincent Millay

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Link: Somersaults Life Archives.

Somersaults™ Life Archives
your life – full circle

"The genuine little details of everyday experiences when collected and curated add up to the eternal essence of our loved ones’ lives. Hand-me-down moments with the click of a shutter become frozen in time and our hearts. Sand between our toes. Tears of joy at the alter. That certain aroma from the back seat three days into the trip. The impossibly soft strip of satin on that tiny blanket. Fresh cut grass filling our every breath. The nervous first kiss and lingering last dance. Our dreams, loves, fears, triumphs and defeats captured in sights, sounds and words to be relived for generations. Somersaults™ Life Archives collects and protects all of your moments and memories in artfully produced products designed to make sure your loved ones’ lives come full circle." -somersaults

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel
Title Quote: Robert Aris Willmott

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Link: A Brief Essay on Love.  via d. Sharp

Amorous Found Photos ...

Title Quote: Robert Browning

No Maps ...

Link: Keep Calm Ltd » Get Lost.

"Each of these stunning prints have been hand letterpressed by Doug, directly onto old maps of the UK! The diversity of these maps and the printing method combined means that each print is truly unique."

"And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of faith who walked in the monotone of the desert and saw brightness and faith and colour. The way a stone or found metal box or bone can become loved and turn eternal in a prayer. Such glory of this country she enters now and becomes part of. We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography-to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps." -Michael Ondaatje

When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over

Link: Keith E. Lo Bue - Jewelry

posession

"Optometrist's test lens, bronze key fragment, steel tack, steel wire, steel-point engravings, paper, text."

Title Quote: Sappho

Slowly it wanders,-pauses,-creeps,-Anon it sparkles,-flashes and leaps; And ever as onward gleaming goes...

Link: Studio d.sharp : inspiration..

"Denise Sharp, the proprietor of Studio d.Sharp, is a visual artist with a fine arts degree in sculpture and printmaking . With a childhood immersed in artistic pursuits - rendering studies of the family dog , calligraphy commissions and countless greeting cards - she is rarely without a project in hand or creative wheels turning. She is a maker of things. She is also a bit of a magpie - a natural collector with a keen eye, particularly attracted to shiny found objects. With a past stint as an antiques dealer, she and her simpatico husband would haul home more things to feather their nest than to sell. Her house and studio swells with vintage ephemera and quirky collections that serve to inspire - her paper trophies are a playful nod to her collection of tarnished loving cups as her private metropolis of souvenir buildings inspired her landmark candy containers.

 

Her body of work grew out this reverence for vintage charm and her desire to imbue personal celebrations with intimate and memorable details - a table for twenty set with festive sheet music hats. the gift of a handmade cake topper for a friend's wedding, a charming crown a reminder of her son's first birthday. These touches serve as treasured souvenirs and make for occasions rich in meaning and individuality.

Studio d. Sharp's line of paper luxuries declare the significance of the celebration. With busy hands, Denise strives to capture the imagination and with a keen eye, she will continue to look for inspiration in the unexpected and grace in the most simple of objects."

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

Link: Etsy :: sisicata :: VINTAGE EROTICA BRACELET.

"Beautiful bracelet made of high quality clear resin.

Design for this bracelet was inspired by vintage erotic photography.

I've used copy of old nude female photos for realization my idea."

Title Quote: Aristippus

Only emotion endures.

Link: ArchiveJewelry.com - About .

"archive design, launched in 2005, grew out of a lifelong love for jewelry. we create pieces for the girl who always dares to be a little different, who expresses her personality through her jewelry. archive designs have an eclectic feel with a stylish twist. for inspiration we use our personal archive of world travels, rummaging through flea markets, antique shops and uncommon places to develop a distinctive look and a fresh perspective. we design one-of-a-kind porcelain pieces using retro graphics as well as everyday classics using vintage treasures that will fit into any wardrobe for years to come."

And there is ev'n a happiness that makes the heart afraid.

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Title Quote: Hood - Ode to Melancholy

via JC Report

The experience of the sacred is a repulsive experience. Or more accurately: revulsive. It is a casting out of the inner and secret, a showing of the entrails...It is a revelation of the hidden...

Link: Klimt02: deVille, Julia jewelry design unique handmade jewelry images jewelers.

"My jewellery is inspired by the Memento Mori jewellery of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian Mourning jewellery. I find the

acceptance of death in these periods fascinating.

I work predominately in traditional gold and silversmithing, combined with materials that were once living such as jet, a petrified wood historically used in Victorian Mourning jewellery, human hair and taxidermy. I use these materials as a Memento Mori, or reminder of our mortality.

I incorporate the symbols of death through out my work because I think it is important to identify with the concept that we are in fact, mortal creatures. The nature of our culture is to obsess over planning the future, however in doing so, we forget to enjoy the present.

I consider my taxidermy to be a celebration of life, a preservation of something beautiful. I feel strongly about the fair and just treatment of animals and to accentuate this point I use only animals that have died of natural causes." Julia deVille

Title Quote: Octavio Paz