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inspiration sent and received

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Written on September 22, 2008 by Susan Lomuto in Archives-Protected, Inspiration, Tools

There are days when I wonder if this blog is actually influencing anyone’s art-making.  Then there are days when I get emails that make it clear to me that Daily Art Muse is making a difference. Oh yes, this blog is tickling muses, inspiring products – even providing research resources for art students.  A recent email from Valerie Claff made my day:

Dear Susan,

I wanted to write and thank you ENORMOUSLY for your amazing blog/musing.  I am an artist and art professor at Clark University in Mass.  For some years now I have been teaching a class called Exploring the Natural World – a combination of field drawing, printmaking and mixed-media.  The other day I stumbled across your site while searching for examples of work for inspiration.  I have to say, your site is THE BEST resource I have found so far.  I don’t have a ton of time to research as I’ve got the teaching to do, so your site is an amazing help for me.  THANK YOU!  I love the work you’re including as they are great examples of a broad range of materials and mediums.  I probably won’t venture too much further than your daily blog and archives this semester and will require my students to do some research there to help with generating ideas.  Again, thank you!

Valerie Claff

DAMuse as required reading for art students.  I like it!  I look forward to seeing Valerie’s students’ work before the end of the semester.

Then yesterday I was scrolling through Canadian based Shades of Clay’s online store looking at Helen Breil’s latest product line.  I was delighted to see that Helen credits a post on Daily Art Muse as the inspiration for her new flexible textures stamps, Tango and Mambo.  Which post sparked the idea?  Zentangles, of course!

As always, Helen’s work is beautifully designed and executed.

Helen Breil’s Mambo Texture Stamp and Mambo Leaf Bracelet

Helen Breil’s Tango Lentil Pendant and Tango Texture Stamp

Come back this afternoon for more DAMuse-inspired work and words.  And do tell – what has DAMuse done for you lately?

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karen lise krabbe: under the spell of illusion

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Written on September 9, 2008 by Susan Lomuto in Archives-Protected, Glass

I received a lovely email about the blog. The kind of email that keeps me going – especially on dark gloomy days like this rainy Tuesday. Here’s a snippet:

I saw in the ‘testimonials’ that someone called your site ‘an online jewel’. Totally agree. I recently came by accident to your site looking for something else and I hung around for hours. I really couldn’t get away from it. Apart from the instant pleasure the pictures and comments gave me…what also attracted me is the selection you make.

When I clicked through a link in the email to the sender’s website I was transported into Danish artist Karen Lise Krabbe’s world of beautiful fused, slumped glass sculptures. [I don't know who photographed Krabbe's work, but they did a masterful job, giving us the underbelly so that we don't miss any of the details.] Wow…

“It-1″ slumped, fused glass, sand

I am under the spell of illusions – I have always treasured ‘the first impression’, the first sight – and I want to prolong it, not letting facts and knowledge interfere. The second when you don’t know what you see, you don’t recognize it, you don’t realize it, you just ‘eye’ something ‘to be’ because you see ‘it’. Later we use another part of the brain to explain. This very short moment before the brain decides what to see is what I try to capture: the first impression.

“It-2″ fused, slumped glass, sand

Karen also wrote that she worked with polymer clay quite a bit before she ‘bumped into’ glass. Maybe she will combine the two someday…

Thanks Karen – for the email (it made my day) and for sharing your art with the larger world. Smoky. Mysterious. Organic. Love it.

[Edited 9/14/08:  Karen's photographer is Enok Holsegaard.  You can see more of his work here.]

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