The Selby

This website really tickles my fancy! The Selby features photographs of interesting people and their creative spaces. It's so voyeristic...you can gain alot of insight about a person by looking at their live/work environment. I believe peoples collections speak volumes about their sentiments. And the way things are arranged can tell you a great deal about their mental landscape. Here are some pics, but you should really go take a look for yourself!

Mood Board #1: The Loo

I have a few Home Improvement projects to do, so I've been collecting images. I'm puting a mood board together for each project! I'm going to start with the bathroom, I have the ugliest bathroom ever! The tile is like grey/beige...greige? But I think I'm going to be able to work with that. I'm painting the walls a light grey and the trim a creamy ivory. I think espresso towels will add a nice touch! I have lots of clear glass apothecary jars to fill and natural objects to display. Here are some images that have inspired me...

I snatched this one from flickr...but I can't remember who?




Above and below: Sophie Pretelat's 'Anges et Demons' installation at the Place de la Bastille, Paris...found via Blood Milk







A full-size recreation of 17th Century naturalist Olaus Worm’s Wunderkammer by artist Rosamond Purcell

le merveilleux

Art historian Hal Foster argues that the marvellous – ‘a state at once otherworldly, secular, and psychic’ – can also be understood as the phenomenon Freud termed ‘the uncanny’, which Foster regards, from the perspective of Surrealism, as the ‘return of the repressed for disruptive purposes’. By this means, these psychic explorers sought to achieve what Foster calls ‘the re-enchantment of a disenchanted world, of a capitalist society made ruthlessly rational’.

Decadence and Decay

Image found via Sparrow Salvage...a beautiful blog...

La Vie Boheme!