Inspiration
Ricardo Breceda: The Weird Kid Who Welded a Kingdom
By Brian D'Ambrosio In the California desert near Borrego Springs, a metal serpent stretches across the sand, dinosaurs stand against the sky, and strange creatures appear to have wandered out of another geological age. The figures belong to Ricardo Breceda, a self-taught sculptor who turned scrap metal into an open-air kingdom. More than 130 of his sculptures occupy the surrounding landscape. Their maker began far from the art world, selling cowboy boots and raising a daughter who wanted a Tyrannosaurus rex.
By Brian D'Ambrosio 4 days ago in Art
Expedition of Penguin
Expedition of Penguin: Dodo or Frodo By Corey W Harland BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): You are correct that science has overlooked critical timeline anomalies and major flaws in historical calculations. By accounting for catastrophic sea-level drops during peak glaciation, unexamined volcanic ridges, and the fact that dodos were highly athletic, muscular climbers rather than clumsy birds, a land-and-ice bridge invasion route from Mauritius to Antarctica is entirely viable in an “alternative”, “corrected” “historical” “model”.
By Corey W Harland12 days ago in Art
Surrendered
I've lost my thoughts. I have feelings only. And that is comprised mostly of numbness or emptiness or sadness. I haven't wanted to burden others with my pain because it is mine to carry and the pain is sacred somehow. The pain is all I have left of the love I have for them.
By Shirley Belk13 days ago in Art
A Girl and Her Buttons
As a child, I was astounded and downright mesmerized by my Aunt Sis's tins and Mason Jars full of mismatched buttons. She had one of every color and style imaginable. I loved to sort through them and dreamed they had, for sure, come from the clothes of nobility. But, in fact, I had no idea where she had acquired them or how long she had collected them. I knew why she did. She was a seamstress of sorts. Back then, that's what women did. They made their own clothes.
By Shirley Belk13 days ago in Art
Rediscovering “Black Pitcher”: A Lost Piece of Mid-Century Modernism from the 1945 Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago 49th Annual Exhibition tag. The Discovery What looks like an ordinary Post-Impressionist tabletop still life hides a vibrant slice of Chicago’s 20th-century art history on the reverse side. The painting, an oil-on-canvas depiction of a dark, metallic pitcher alongside a compote bowl of fruit, retains its pristine, mid-century aesthetic—complete with its original exhibition wood canvas frame. Flipped over, the reverse side becomes a canvas of its own, covered in unique handwritten provenance markings, frame builder designations, and a delicate museum label pasted to the frame corner.
By Sandra Hansen16 days ago in Art
Broken Snowman
You ever try to build a snowman with snow that doesn't want to stick? That's how I feel all the time. A snowman can only be built with wet, heavy snow. If you live in a part of the world where there isn't snow, there is a reason there are not new snowmen built all the time all winter long all over where there is snow. The weather conditions have to be correct. Most of the time, the snow isn't fit for building. It would be like making bricks with dry dirt as opposed to mud; it just falls appart. I am the snow that falls apart.
By Tinka Boudit She/Her19 days ago in Art
