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

Please tell me again, I’ve forgotten all - The wind told us when you and I were small - For there must be something I'm missing - Please tell me again - Tell me again .

Link: Agnieszka Lasota - Portfolio.

Title Quote: Ron Sexsmith

journeys bring power and love back into you. if you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. they are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

Link: STEVE WIMAN.COM / D BERMAN GALLERY.

title quote: Rumi

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.

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custom tea lights. available in singles and clusters.

Title Quote: Theodore Roethke

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes mysterious...indescribably magnificent world in itself.

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Title Quote: Henry Miller

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Link: SUSAN LENART KAZMER : transforming the ordinary : mixed media found object jewelry.

"I have always felt that the more experiences you have in life, the more you are able to offer in your work. On my journey, living life, exploring and unfolding as an artist, I find inspiration for my work in various mediums. Watching a bird run back and forth with the tide creates a beautiful rhythm that can be transformed into a three-dimensional form. The visual impact, the color and condition of a dilapidated barn can be captured in a piece of metal.

I have always had a passion for found objects. Recently I have considered another dimension utilizing found objects. Picking up a piece, holding it and contemplating it, I let the object lead the way as to what direction the finished piece will emerge. The magnitude of energy carried with the found object from their previous lives can be seen felt and touched. When you close your eyes and hold the object in your hand you can feel whether the user has enjoyed, neglected, or cherished it. Fear, happiness, struggle, and strength are also feelings embedded in an object. My job as an artist is to take the found object and present it in a new and unexpected way.

Combining these energies in recycled objects is indeed creating a contemporary talisman. Consider the mental power put into a pencil stub worn down by an accountant during tax season, or the mundane repetition locked into a key from an old factory locker, or the freedom embedded in the bones of a free-range chicken. I believe these energies lend power and mystery to ordinary objects. In my work I use them to create talismans worn for protection, freedom, and strength." -from artists site

Title Quote; Robert Morgan

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

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Link: naoko ogawa gathering jewelry recyclable.
Title Quote: Leonardo da Vinci

"I would like you to enjoy the jewelry by putting this silver plate on your body and crushing it together with your clothes to hold on. This enables you to change the look of your clothes by creating fluid folds on them.

This plate transforms the style of your clothes in many different ways depending on not only your everyday emotions but also the pattern or design of the plate, including the new patterns of the plate drawn by the crush as well as metal fatigue itself. You can basically enjoy an unlimited amount of designs on the silver plate and clothes since they never change in the same way.

It is my intention to make this jewelry enjoyably sensual, to let your hand touch and feel your body line (or silhouette of your clothes) with this plate and then to redefine it through crushing. By doing so, you could find the idea of your everyday clothes destroyed and / or turned into something new with the beautiful gathers which you could not imagine or predict. The gathers made by the redefinition of the crush would create a new body line (or silhouette of your clothes) and wrap you up for the day.

The key message or objective of this jewelry is that you can create a ‘today’ or a new you by destroying ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’.

Since it is made of metal, this silver plate would be so cracked or broken that you won’t hold or even wear it permanently. In that case, I would like you to stop to use it and send it to me. I will remelt it up and remake it as new one. That is to say you can get new plate perpetually. That is because partially I am afraid of a sharp edge of the broken metal. But moreover, it is because I am afraid that the broken jewelry may end up becoming or being stagnant as ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’ by keeping using it." -naoko agawa

But a woman in threadless gold / Burns us with the brushings of her dress / And a dissociated abundance of being.

Sid Vintage

Jewelry of vintage found chains and parts ...

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Title Quote: Wallace Stevens, "The Woman in Sunshine"

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the hear ...

Ghost Furniture

Ghost Furniture by Di Overton

"Bringing quality furniture back from the dead and making it hauntingly beautiful." - Ghost

Title Quote: Madison Cawein