Friday, May 24, 2013

Robert Polidori


Robert Polidori, 2732 Orleans Avenue, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, 6328 North Miro Street, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, 6539 Canal Street, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, View from St. Claude Avenue Bridge, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, 2520 Deslondes, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, Bellair Drive No. 2, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, 1720 Touro Street, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, 5603 Dauphine Street, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, 1908 Wickfield Drive, New Orleans, 2005

Robert Polidori, St. Bernard Avenue and North Robertson Street, 2005





Robert Polidori (Canadian, b. 1951) illuminates human pathos at the intersection of man's desire for structure as evidenced by rooms, places and the impact of larger environmental forces. Acknowledging the Italian word for "camera" as “room,” and the use of the machine as a metaphor for sight, Polidori's masterful understanding of Renaissance and post-Renaissance perspectives create lush, eloquent images where the traces of human experience come alive. It is the layers of history and the collective remnants of a place's past inhabitants that drive Polidori and have created his iconic body of work. Whether breathing in the memories and life of those rooms standing as a testament to man's greatness and ambition at Versailles or the fading beauty of Havana, Cuba, Polidori also documents human environments touched by great sadness and destruction as evidenced by his work in Cherynobyl and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

The The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York held a critically acclaimed exhibition of Polidori’s After the Flood images in 2006. He has had mid-career retrospectives at the Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal  and the Instituto Moreira Salles Museum in Rio and Sao Paulo, Brazil. His work is held in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, among others. Robert Polidori lives and works between New York and Los Angeles.


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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

It's All in the Name

THE CUMMER MUSEUM. THIS EXISTS. No joke. !!!!WHAT A NAME!!!!

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens



The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens




Monday, May 20, 2013

Garden Inspiration

I have been trying to spruce up my yard, so thought I would show you some plant/garden-related photos that I have taken in the last year or so.

There is no end to creativity in the garden. It is so fun and so fab, and such a nice way to get down and dirty.  :)  Maybe one or two of these pics will inspire you. :)

drollgirl's potted plants - teapot succulent container

black house, atwater village

stuck in the middle

at Pink Trash & Treasures, Buellton, CA

spanish tile & geraniums

who

556 Virgil

Mercedes Planter

wheelbarrows

Rocky Horror Lockers & Ivy

Lunchables -- creative potting containers at Potted

at Pink Trash & Treasures, Buellton

swing & grass

bougainvillea blowout

birds of paradise

pot envy

iris

grass skirt

Greenery at Wisteria, Soquel

at Pink Trash & Treasures, Buellton, CA

lily pads

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matchy matchy

apartments need plants too

spikes and spears

Glamour

table for two.  repeat.

at Pink Trash & Treasures, Buellton, CA

race to the top

creative potting containers at Potted

ivy love

matchy matchy / pink on pink

cactus

bird of paradise

fence, trees, squares

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at Pink Trash & Treasures, Buellton

Hairy Palm

dumping ground

flower power

fuschia

eyes on you

drollgirl / succulents

in the pink, Los Feliz, CA

drollgirl's potted succulents

mom's succulent

planters on the playground

dewy rose

buried alive

His and Hers

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creative potting containers at Potted

green and horny

Jeep Planter



My favorite things lately are the "non-traditional" planters. They are so fun and so whimsical, and a great way to repurpose items that would normally head to the trash. My mom goes to a lot of garage sales, and recently picked up 4 silver teapots for $1 each. She gave them all to me, and I am using them as pots. :)




P.S. Some of my favorite garden stores in California are: