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Wonderful vegetables from Victor Polson
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Amazing ivory wood, fur and precious metal brooches by Tina Rath

Thank you Dear Ada, what an exciting blog you write!

Merry Christmas everyone.

odd piles of plenty

This coming season of excess has made me think about plenty, multiples and piles. Is it some ancient primal urge from times of scarcity that leads us humans to be so fascinated with multiples?

Many things create random patterns, leading the eyes to make more formal patterns of pebbles on a beach or piles of folded washing. You can clearly see this process in beautiful aboriginal paintings where multiples become formal, rhythmic pattern. Maybe our longing for multiplicity is simply an yearning towards order , the continuous human struggle against EM Foster's "Chaos and Emptiness"?




Sometimes art can emulate this feeling of wonder at many by isolating a single or a few. In this way the whole universe of pebbles on the beach can be ours through the delicate jewelery of Rebbecca Ward,



The mystery of a flock of ravens translated into a single bird by Sleeping Forest.



Or the luxury of a pile of knitted jumpers translated into porcelain by Alyssa Ettinger.






Amazing photos of odd piles of plenty by Tim Walker

everyday

Beastie bowls 2007

Listening to... Julie Andrews in the Muppet Show and cicadas.
Looking at.... "Full Bloom" Biography of Georgia O'Keefe.
Smelling... gardenias and my babies heads.
Feeling... lovely 350 thread count pale blue sheets and cool, wet, porcelain.
Tasting.... cherry tomato and roast pumpkin pasta with basil from the garden.
Thinking.... about the Magnolia Project, celadon glazes, mulching the garden, the government signing Kyoto, native grasses and the illustrations of bones from Grey's Anatomy.