The material you see here comes from that magical city, Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have been going through drawers as part of my decluttering project with The Life- changing Magic of Tidying Up- The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing and found two collages, loads of beautiful art magazines and some cutouts. As mentioned […]
Search Results for 'Collage'
Christmas Gifts {Found Collages and a New Image}
Posted in art, Books, Collage, Experiments, Quotes, Writing, tagged collage, decluttering, gifts, Photography, santa fe, surreal on December 26, 2015| 2 Comments »
The Name of The Rose {collage in progress}
Posted in art, Photography, Writing, tagged Photography, the name of the rose, Umberto eco on February 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
“What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the […]
Collage in process and ASCII Art
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Drawing, Ink, Link Love, Poetry, Thinking with my hands, tagged ascii heart, asciiart, black and white art, collage, Drawing, figure, found objects, graphite, journal, Watercolor, writing on December 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
These collages are starting to need a change of byline for SketchBloom: Art Therapy. Oh well;) Above, a work in progress (and, darling aren’t we all?)..not sure which way it will go. In the midst of nude painting to be done from memory (and I have started sketching, too bad the final product won’t be […]
Trav’ling, Trav’ling {long lost collage}
Posted in Collage, Traveling, Writing, tagged collage, letter to imaginary readers, Muji bag, photo on August 30, 2013| 2 Comments »
As Stephen King used to address his imaginary interlocutor… Dear Reader, Conscious of my erratic posting frequency lately and sudden absences and reappearances, I feel it is right to append few words to this latest image and not once more slink out without, if not an explanation, at least a taste for things to come. […]
Collage [11:20]
Posted in art, Collage, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, school, School Work, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged collage, Love, mixed media, San Diego museum.of art catalog on May 20, 2013| 2 Comments »
The process… The story behind the collage base : When starting a new collage, I find I always need a catalyst, an incipit. In order to tell the visual narratives of my collage I always like to continue an imaginary dialogue started by another artist, graphic designer etc. The base of this latest collage is […]
Collages in Progress {Creative Chaos}
Posted in art, Collage, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, tagged collages in progress, cutouts, espresso magazine, paper arts, Ulisse magazine on September 17, 2012| 2 Comments »
A beginning of a collage over my father’s drawing.
Collages with Papa’
Posted in art, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, F R A G M E N T S, Poetry, Writing, tagged arte, artwork, clocks, collaborative art work, collage, conversations about art, conversations with my mother, Drawing, father, Genoa, Genova, magazine, sketches, the fortress of lost time, time in art on December 30, 2010| 3 Comments »
These collages start with a drawing my father sketches out on thin notebook paper; I then proceed to create possible scenarios. And this is the conversation at the end of the day with my mother, a retired judge — which i have entitled: Talking about art with my (practical, realist) mother [Me , retiring […]
Collages in Art and Architecture
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Collage, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Graphic Design, School Work, tagged collage, collage in art and architecture, crackling glaze, gloss, Hector Perez, repetition, richard meier, socal ex on October 19, 2010| 4 Comments »
I have been thinking and wanting to explore collages again since this summer, when I was so inspired by Hector Perez and his students’ work with SoCal Ex–but not until today I finally acted on that impulse. I have two works done and one almost complete. Two to share, and one part of a larger, […]
Steven Holl: Sketches, Watercolors, Collages
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, F R A G M E N T S, school, School Work, Watercolor, Writing, tagged Archigram, Architect, Architecture, art, collage, Drawing, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum(1992-1998), Knut Hamsen Museum(1994-2009), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999-2002), Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture (2002-2009), photocollage, Simmons Hall, sketch, sketchbook, Steven Holl, Watercolor, watercolorist, written in water, written on water on October 13, 2010| 3 Comments »
All images are from a research project completed by my student, Mariam Thomas, on Architects as Artists and their rendering/design techniques. The relationship between architecture and art, and the study of practitioners who are also artists (with the mindframe of artists), whose design process transcends design practices and pragmatism to include enlightment, discoveries and art- wonderings […]
Painting and Collages
Posted in on February 27, 2009| 5 Comments »
A (hard) Summer of Art {What I Know Now }
Posted in art, Art Gallery, Art Journaling, art workshops, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, Film, Making, Painting, Quotes, sketchbook, Traveling, wanderlust, Watercolor, Writing, tagged art, art workshops, collage, experiments, painting, travel, Watercolor on October 2, 2020| 5 Comments »
Happy Fall! Is it “oh my God” or “Finally?” How has your summer been? Mine was a summer that wasn’t, between the lockdown on international flights and non-stop fulltime teaching plus fulltime academic duties. More work, adjustments, screentime and zoomed/voiced out feelings than i care to admit. Still, there is gratitude for being able to […]
Poetry in the Time of…
Posted in art,poetry,writing on May 26, 2020| 2 Comments »
Namaste Coronavirus. Collage. March 13, 2020. 4”x 4” The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porter ( american windows and other psychoses ) i remember the cardboard house on the wrong side of the train tracks- perennially in twilight. screened windows shut, curtains drawn on […]
Art at the Time of Covid-19
Posted in art, Art Journaling, art workshops, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Collage, Experiments, visual journal, wanderlust, Writing, tagged art, art workshop, collage, Crystal Marie Neubauer, mixed media on March 24, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I return. With some scraps pasted on watercolor paper, with a draft of a poem. Like a pater familias who periodically abandons the domestic domicile and neglects his duties to answer the siren, wearing only a backpack. Wanderlust. It’s in my blood. So, before they shut down California and closed all her beaches ( I […]
Dispatches from Istanbul {First Architectural Sketches on my Ipad!}
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Experiments, History of Architecture, Making on January 6, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Maybe Istanbul was the city in the sky where the people who were our reflections lived. Burhan Sönmez A quick trip to Ahmet Square in Istanbul on my way back from Italy, to visit Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. You can see my photos and a video on @sketchbloom These are my first architectural […]
“Daydreams and Window Light” – by Roxanne Evans Stout { advanced visual journal techniques }
Posted in art, art workshops, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Pastel, Watercolor, Way Art Yonder, Writing, tagged art journal, background pages, collage, mixed media arts, sketchbook, Texture, visual journal on October 20, 2018| 1 Comment »
Today was a beautiful day of art and comraderie! I attended the first day of Roxanne Evans Stouts’ workshop at Way Art Yonder in Jamul, California. This was my second workshop in this wonderful art studio – and another opportunity to spend a day fully with my art, exploring mixed media and collaging. Today’s workshop […]
After the Angel { From The Logorrheic, and I’m on a different playlist }
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Coffee, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Graphite, Ink, Poetry, Quotes, sketchbook, writing, tagged Coffee, Drawing, Love, poem, Poetry, romanticism, sketch, Tree, william wordsworth on September 29, 2018| 1 Comment »
The belief that women talk too much is rooted in the understanding that women should be silent. “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence,” is how well-known feminist Dale Spender explained her reasoning in her book Man Made Language written decades ago. “Women have not been […]
An Afternoon Way Art Yonder { where I find my people}
Posted in art, Art Gallery, Art Show, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Collage, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Painting, Paper Goods, San Diego, sketchbook, Way Art Yonder, tagged Art Tribe, art workshop, collage, mixed media art, Paintings, san diego, way art yonder studio on July 3, 2018| 2 Comments »
On Sunday I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon at my friend Jana Freeman’s Way Art Yonder Studio for one of her monthly open studio days. I met Jana at my school, first we were friendly colleagues then mischievous friends, and now she is living the Dream running her own art studio and hosting […]
Pink Sunsets and Sunrises { Watercolors and Zentangles in the Bay of the Angels}
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Experiments, Watercolor, tagged Bahía de Los Ángeles, Baja California, mexico, Watercolor on April 19, 2018| 2 Comments »
I just got back from another lovely stay at my personal retreat away from the world and telephone connection: Bahía De Los Ángeles in Baja California, Mexico. I brought *all* my watercolor stuff with me (acquired some pretty awesome new pearly Japanese watercolor pods) but, typically, not watercolor paper- so the first experiment on drawing […]
Tribute to Puebla, México
Posted in Architectural Photography, Architecture, art,poetry,writing, History of Architecture, Photography, Watercolor, tagged architectural photography, Architecture, art, cathedral, Drawing, history, mexico, painting, Photography, puebla, sketching on August 12, 2017| 2 Comments »
Dear Single Reader, You might have thought I had disappeared, and would be the third person in a week to ask me what happened to my sketchbloom…but I’m back for the summer. An international conference in Hong Kong , research writing /presentations and academia have absorbed me until the end of June…not to mention that […]
Back to the Drawing Board
Posted in art,poetry,writing on February 23, 2017| 2 Comments »
I‘m working on a couple of deadlines ( or three) for another version of my Self-Storage Cities paper and related major presentation ( which involves writing a script and turning an academic paper into a story!). I am exploring new formats and taking layout and storytelling to the next level. The layout study above is […]
Cafés, Books and Roses {and a poem to Tijuana}
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Coffee, Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Ink, Mexico Lindo y Querido, Photography, Poetry, San Diego, sketching, Tijuana Diaries, tagged café bassam, cafe lulu, cafe', collages, poem to tijuana, Reading, rose, san diego, sketches on June 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A Mi Tijuana Milton Ríos Spanish | English La olvidada, la 100 por ciento criticada!.. A la que puedes dar mil opiniones sobre ella La única que es coherente con su equilibrio Entre las cosas buenas y malas! La ciudad malvada… la maravillada, La llena de narcos! Artistas, multicolores y muchos tantos… Esta ciudad… ciudad […]
An XRay of My Brain {Five Years Later and Writer Update}
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Berkeley Diaries, Books, Collage, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Essay, Graphic Design, Graphite, Ink, Jewelry, Jewelry and Accessory Design, Le flâneur, Lectures, Photography, Portfolio of Work, Research, San Diego, School Work, sketching, Traveling, Urban Design, Writing, tagged Abstract, architecture academic research, documentation, Faculty Board, faculty portfolio, narrative, Pedagogy, publishing, storage cities, teaching on March 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Hello Stranger! In case you are wondering what happened to me and why I’ve gone M.I.A during the month of February and most of March, the board above is one of the reasons. As it happened in 2010, our school underwent an enormous accreditation visit, which meant preparing for months collecting, documenting and providing evidences. […]
The Last Nudes
Posted in art, Art Gallery, art,poetry,writing, Life Drawing, Photography, Thinking with my hands, Watercolor, Writing on December 21, 2015| 3 Comments »
These ‘art therapy’ sessions did much good in helping me find time for art, but it is time to move on and find the discipline within me.
May Nudes and Works in Progress
Posted in art, Art Gallery, Drawing, Ink, Life Drawing, Pastel, Poetry, sketchbook, wanderlust, Watercolor, Writing, writing, tagged art, balboa part, Drawing, graphite, ink, Monday nights, nude, nude modeling, pastel, san diego, san diego arts institute, sketchbook, sketching on July 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Another month of quickening days, of white skies, of scorching heat, of California monsoons has gone by. The weather in San Diego has been positively schizophrenic. Life has been full (I dislike the word “busy”), heartbreaking and healing at turns, magic, adventurous, challenging and with an overall trend of daily progress towards balance, harmony […]
Picking up Brushes {Life Drawing in Balboa Park 3.23.15)
Posted in Life Drawing, Painting, San Diego, Watercolor, tagged Balboa Park, brushes, Life Drawing, Monday nights, San Diego Art Institute, Watercolor on March 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Did you know I was a painter? I know, hard to tell from this blog, where I have focused ,on the art-making side, on drawing and collages ( no art studio, less place for canvases). But I was a painter, an acrylic one, before I learned how to draw, architecture and other things, before sketching, […]
Start Tonight {Musings on Time, and Being an Artist}
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Photography, Quotes, tagged come alive, fernanda pivano, Flylady, lessons, Life of an artist, musing, night, Quotes, time on March 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Not knowing where to start, we can start from here, from tonight. Of all the nights, why not tonight? I picked up my electronic pen, my fingertips, so many times, only to put it/them back in the drawer. Fragile, breakable souls…we get overwhelmed so easily…we take so much time to process. Life is always a […]
The Art of Not Falling in Love
Posted in Acrylic, art, Collage, Painting, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Martha-Rivero Garrido, painting, poem, Poetry, Quote, Refinery29 on January 24, 2015| 1 Comment »
Picture the two of you lamp-shopping at IKEA, orchestrating a from-scratch dinner, and generally being capital-T Together. Refinery29.com … No Te Enamores De Una Mujer Que Lee. [Do Not Fall in Love With A Woman Who Reads] By Martha Rivera-Garrido No te enamores de una mujer que lee, de una mujer que siente demasiado, de […]
Lights at Lulu’s
Posted in digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Ink, Poetry, sketchbook, sketching, tagged coffee shop, Drawing, light, light fixtures, lounge, luminaires, Noelle Kocot, on being an artist, poem-a-day, red, sketch, sketch every day on May 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »
On Being an Artist Noelle Kocot Saturn seems habitual, The way it rages in the sky When we’re not looking. On this note, the trees still sing To me, and I long for this Mottled world. Patterns Of the lamplight on this leather, The sun, listening. My brother, my sister, I was […]
My Words, Tinfoil Wings
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Collage, Digital Manipulation, tagged collage, nightly art on December 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
These are visual notes of a different kind.
The glue has dried….{Anna Karenina |The brightest thing}
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Collage, Quotes, Reading, Watercolor, tagged Anna Karenina, Bassam's San Diego, Coffee shop art, collage, found material, literary cafe on December 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Timing (is on my side?)
Posted in Architecture, art, Art Show, Berkeley Diaries, Quotes, Urban Design, writing, tagged Building community, lecture, Milenko Matanovic, pomegranate center, Public space, Timing is everything on November 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »
An apropos message from the Universe tonight- in form of a collage. This is a promising exhibit at the UCSD University Art Gallery- up until December 6. In my non-teaching/working hours (very few since October) I have turned from an artist to a professional architecture/art/urban design event goer, organizer, supporter, disseminator and even instigator. I […]
Dispatches from Buffalo, New York
Posted in architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Coffee, Collage, Drawing, Ink, sketchbook, sketching, Spontaneous Constructs, Thinking with my hands, Watercolor, tagged Buffalo, cafe', coffee watercolor, collage, Ny, painting with espresso coffee, sketchbook, SOciety of Architectural Historians COnference on April 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Relics and Deliverance
Posted in art, Collage, Competitions and Collaborations, Watercolor, tagged collaborations, collage and watercolor, espresso magazine, magazine cutout, paper art, Ulisse magazine on September 17, 2012| 1 Comment »
Just completed a watercolor/collage on a drawing by my father.
Bassemah takes on Ghadah
Posted in art, Poetry, Writing on March 29, 2012| 1 Comment »
Earlier this year I acquired two books from my lovely blogsister Ghadah Alkandari at PrettyGreenBullet. One was to keep…the other to collage. Here I asked my dear friend Bassemah, of Palestinian origins, to respond to one of Ghadah’s drawings. She chose this one. We spent an afternoon doing art in her warm San Diego home, […]
A Moon Over Berkeley
Posted in art, Berkeley Diaries, Music, Poetry, Writing, tagged Berkeley, Love, moon, multimedia poem, Poetry on March 10, 2012| 4 Comments »
A Moon Over Berkeley [We Became Art for a Moment] There is no need to seek her For she is the Moon Her stunning face hangs over me Never lets a night go without The ache of her beauty Do you see the small star by her? Her shadow is cast over the city Like […]
Murmurations {Seven Hundred Sixty Days)
Posted in art, Poetry, Writing on November 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Secret of the Lost Umbrella | Essay on Orange
Posted in art, Collage, Design, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Poetry, Writing, tagged collage, delayed bag, Drawing, essay, madrid, manana llovera, markable folding umbrella, michele foyer, muji, my orange, orange, stolen umbrella, umbrella, Watercolor on November 16, 2011| 2 Comments »
I was recently reunited with luggage lost 45 days ago. Three items were missing: a bottle of Cinema Eau De Parfum by Yves Saint Laurent, a beloved collaged orange umbrella bought in Barcelona and a pair of Sketchers shoes. Go figure. Immediately i set out to substitute my lost umbrella. As said in one Law […]
Sketching at Bassam II {and two poems}
Posted in Drawing, Ink, NaBloPoMo, Poetry, Writing, tagged art, Bassam, Ilyas Abu Shabaku, Lebanese poet, literary cafe, modern arabic poetry an anthology, Poetry, san diego, sketching on November 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I want to share these two poems by Ilyas Abu Shabaku, which were given to me as a gift. Poetry is a candle in a dark room: our job in this life may just be to burn as bright as torches, as bright and as alive and loud as we can, for each glorious day we have […]
The Rose of Versailles
Posted in Architecture, art, Collage, Digital Collage, Paris Diaries, Photography, Writing, tagged collage, Digital Collage, fans, la rose de versailles, marie antoinette, Paris, Photography, rose, slate roofs on October 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Ballerina
Posted in Architecture, art, Collage, Digital Collage, Photography, Poetry, school, School Work, Writing, tagged architectural narratives, ballerina, Casablanca quote, cityline, Digital Collage, ink drawing, leopold lambert, poem, Poetry, RIetta Wallenda, suspended at 300 feet with no harness, the funambulist, tightrope dances, tightrope walker, woman on September 1, 2011| 1 Comment »
Nets To Rietta Wallenda Tightrope acrobats dance above safety nets (or not) Nerves taut like violin chords Pulsing on neck, tendons stiff. / The fisherman spreads his father’s nets Repaired a thousand times, damaged again He sews his wounds on the beach Fastens the corks The old man with the young eyes who listens to […]
Wabi Sabi, Dwellings for Imaginary Civilizations, Nightverses
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, Art Gallery, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Berkeley Diaries, Books, Coffee, Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Artists, Poetry, school, School Work, sketching, Writing, writing, tagged art, charles simonds, clay dwellings, corcovado nights, designers, dwellings for imaginary civilizations of little people, graphite drawing, new york, NYC, Poetry, poets & philosophers, sarah vaughn, wabi-sabi for artists, whitney museum on August 28, 2011| 2 Comments »
Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional. From Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers Charles Simonds began building clay villages, ruins and what he termed ” dwellings for imaginary civilizations of little people” in the […]
Upon discovering ‘Meditations in an Emergency’
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Poetry, Writing, tagged Digital Collage, frank o' hara, meditation in an emergency, new york, Poetry, poetry foundation, poets.org, the best american poetry on August 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
From The Best American Poetry: The title of the book began as a very sophisticated literary joke, an allusion to John Donne’s “Meditations on Emergent Occasions.” But as sometimes happened in O’Hara’s poetry, the joke turned out to have a surplus of meaning. His poems are meditations — but not the kind that comes […]
Fabric City, Kisses and Beads
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Experiments, Jewelry, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged 100%polypropylene, beads, collages, construct, dancing dresses, fabric map, hands. collaborative work, jewelry design, kisses, la gitane, maps, model, mylar, new york, patchwork, Watercolor, yupo watercolor paper on June 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Fabric City is finally finished! Yay! Back to collages and sketches now. From this… …to a process of cutting and puzzle-making… to this: Tomorrow the ‘city’ will be cut and applied to a presently plain backpack and signed. I also want to share this impromptu jewelry design, my second, kindly modeled! Finally, work inspired by […]
Tales of Salt Cities
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Book Reviews, Books, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Featured Artists, Photography, photography, Writing, tagged Arab cities, Cities of Salt, City of Salt, Digital Collage, escapism, fable, fantasy, favorite books, fiction, Invisible cities, Italo Calvino, Miniature cities, nicholas kahn, orientalism, Photography, photography spread, prose, reverie, richard selesnick, tales on May 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
“Here is a splendid volume from the Terry Gillam school of fictional photography… The book comes in a sturdy slipcase and features complex landscapes, painstakingly created, and digitally peopled by actors playing out scenes which conjure up a mystical Middle Eastern civilisation. Enigmatic, but beautiful.” AG Magazine “This is a beautifully structured text with an […]
{From our current selection}
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Link Love, Paper Goods, Thought in the Alley, tagged a year in the merde, Digital Collage, Ines De La Fressange, inspired goodness, map, Paris, parisian chic: a style guide on May 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Photo from Inspired Goodness. Founded in 2008, Inspired Goodness is a custom invitation and paper goods studio located in Brooklyn, NY. —————————————————————————- Notable books: A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke Parisian Chic: A Style Guide by Ines De La Fressange
Rain of Frogs [fragments, poems, movie lines]
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Ink, Poetry, San Diego, Thoughts in the alley, Writing, writing, tagged a story that could be true, agata and the storm, agata e la tempesta, Digital Collage, frogs, poem, Poetry, rain, william stafford on May 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Pretty Parking Lot I have dreamt of perfect poems faded like dewdrops upon awakening About mice and buildings built by men Cities are sentences that haunt me Book thieves, foreign movies… the line is thin between memories and reverie The fog has lifted the rain felt soft […]
Mare Mosso Act III
Posted in art,poetry,writing on March 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Mare Mosso / Restless Sea
Posted in art,poetry,writing on March 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This is another collaborative work with my father. Some of the collage images are taken from the Muji catalog. Muji is an innovative design brand from Japan.
Oh, Valentine
Posted in art,poetry,writing on February 14, 2011| 2 Comments »
Drawn on Coffee
Posted in Architecture, Coffee, Poetry, Quotes, school, School Work, sketchbook, sketching, Thoughts in the alley, Uncategorized, Watercolor, Writing, tagged Carlos Fuentes, cities, city, Coffee, ink drawing, Poetry, poetry on architecture, revolution, sketch, sketchbook, urban design on January 31, 2011| 3 Comments »
One more post before the month is over. I still have a lot of sketches to share and am working on finding time to do some more collages (wow, the previous sentence needs to have more conviction to it!). Lots of changes going on around the world…. I am just sitting and seeing it all turn. […]
Christmas in Amsterdam (and finally seeing Eat, Pray, Love)
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Quotes, Writing, tagged amsterdam, bali, Blogging, christmas, Eat Pray Love, india, Italy, Quotes, sarah gilbert, schiphol airport, writing on December 25, 2010| 2 Comments »
Christmas Day finds me in Amsterdam this year, on my way to Milano. Internet access may be intermittent the next few weeks, and while I plan to do art and sketch (well, as much sketching as subzero temperatures will allow), I won’t have my scanner so the quality of the drawings, collages and […]
Embroidery As Architecture: Jill Spurgin | Versa Stitch
Posted in art,poetry,writing on November 13, 2010| 2 Comments »
I noticed Jill Spurgin’s eyecatching work in a poster tucked in a stairway of my school. Naturally I had to investigate. She is having an Artist Reception here in San Diego. Jill Spurgin Embroidery and Textiles Friday November 19, from 5-8 PM Prudential California Realty Building 890 West Washington St. (corner of Washington & Goldfinch) […]
Architecture, Books, Seed-Thoughts
Posted in art,poetry,writing on October 27, 2010| 1 Comment »
Apologies for the absence of the recent days, I have so much to share, as always, yet the days have been filled with preparations for our Architecture school’s NAAB Accreditation. It is an all-school process and effort and we have all been preparing for months; there is an energy and purpose as we all pull […]
Periscope, Art Happenings and Misgivings Sept. 3-5 {Part I}
Posted in art,poetry,writing on September 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I am fading out, but wanted to post few mementos from the weekend of Art I just had, from the San Diego Art Fair at The Hilton Downtown (missed the gallery:() Friday, to Barrio Logan on Saturday Sept. 5 with the events at Periscope (child of the dear Petar Perisic) and Space For Art (child […]
Shadows, Math, Truth…Ephipanies
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Desk Crit, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Lectures, Quotes, school, School Work, Writing, tagged Abstraction, Architecture, Being then Doing, Drawing, Drawing and Sketching as Tools for Design, First Year Design studio, John Ruskin Quote, light, Light Angle, Philosophy, Platonic solids, Quotes, Reduction, Reductive process, Shadows in Axonometric, Truth on September 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Happy September. Post coming late today, but it is a new month and I hope this, my birthday month (yay) will be better than the last- and all summer for that matter. Lots of challenges and growth but…they don’t call them growing pains for nothing. In my classes today we shared links on artists, visual notes, […]
Les Mots Et L’Amour {Words and Love}
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, NaBloPoMo, Quotes, Writing, tagged breaking and entering, idra, Marguerite Yourcenar, sei un rettile, St. Loup's Secrets and Lies, Words are Swords on August 28, 2010| 1 Comment »
From St Loup’s secrets & lies: All you have to do is take these lies and make them true… …manier les mots, les soupeser, en explorer le sens, es une manière de faire l’amour, surtout lorsque ce qu’on écrit est inspiré par quelqu’un, ou promis à quelqu’un. Marguerite Yourcenar Quoi? L’Éternité, Paris, Gallimard, 1988, p. […]
Imaginaire : an evening with Magritte (and colors)
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Coffee, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, Link Love, School Work, Watercolor, tagged Architectural review, Architecture, Arles, Cafe' A La Carte, Coffee, Domus, Firenze, Futo Coffee, Harvard Design Guide, Inverno, la pioggia, loose watercolor techniques, Miti Aiello, Place Lamartine, Rene Magritte, Starry Sky over the Rhone, Surrealist house, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Vijay Raghavendiran, Vincent Van Gogh, Watercolor techniques. George S. Loli, Winter in Florence on August 10, 2010| 3 Comments »
After some meetings today I stopped by the library, Futo coffee in hand, and indulged in my favorite Architecture periodicals: Domus, Architectural Review and Harvard Design Magazine. An article on Surrealist Houses launched an expansive search on the Architecture of René Magritte; will share some of the findings here. I am also thinking about watercolor […]
SoCal – E>< : Exploratory Design Workshop
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Desk Crit, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Paper Goods, Pastel, Photography, school, tagged Albert Frey, Alberto Kalach, Alfredo Melly, Andrea Benavides, Archigram, Architectural Collage, Architecture, california, Case Study Homes, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Santamaria, Christine & Russell Forester, collage, Coop Himmelblau, Craig Ellwood, Culver City, Daly Genik Architects, Del Mar, Don Wexler, Ed Killingsworth, Eric Owen Moss, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Frank Gehry, Gehry Technologies, Greene and Greene, Hector Perez, Henry Palomino, Kathy McCormick & Ted Smith, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Luce Et Studio, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Morphosis, Nancy Tariga, newschool of architecture and design, Palm Springs, pasadena, Residential Design, Richard NeutraRudolph Schindler, san diego, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Monica, Sebastian Mariscal, Sebastian Mariscal Studio, Smith and Others, SoCal Exploratory Design Workshop, Southern California Design and Architecture, Superstudio, Ted Smith, venice on August 6, 2010| 1 Comment »
Something eye-opening occurred at my school yesterday. I attended the exhibit for SoCal -Ex : Exploratory Design Workshop, completed by Professor Hector Perez and his students. Here are the specific of the Workshop: 6 Explorers Andrea Benavides/Alfredo Melly/Henry Palomino/Charles Santamaria/Nancy Tariga 25 Days July 12-August 5 10 Field Trips San Diego/La Jolla/Del Mar/San Juan Capistrano/Los Angeles/Santa […]
Fading to Cheshire: An Art Exorcise
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, Poetry, Spontaneous Constructs, Thoughts in the alley, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged Alice in Wonderland, Art Exorcises, Cheshire, Christmas in July, Hauntings, Lewis Carroll, Obsessions on July 30, 2010| 2 Comments »
From Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951). Cheshire Cat: Oh, by the way, if you’d really like to know, he went that way. Alice: Who did? Cheshire Cat: The White Rabbit. Alice: He did? Cheshire Cat: He did what? Alice: Went that way. Cheshire Cat: Who did? Alice: The White Rabbit. Cheshire Cat: What rabbit? Alice: […]
Sections of the Brokenhearted [Find another Sun]
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Coffee, Cures for the Nothing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Music, NaBloPoMo, Photography, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged Architect, Architecture, coffee cups, Cornell, Espresso Cups, Gordon Matta-Clark, Illy coffee, Jeff Koons, sepia photography, tazzine collection on June 7, 2010| 1 Comment »
Soundtrack of ‘Apart’ Soundtrack of ‘The Center cannot hold’ Soundtrack of ‘Spooning (one. is broken)’ More on Gordon Matta-Clark
Waiting for Godot
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Coffee, Digital Collage, Writing, tagged craigslist, dan brown, facebook withdrawals, lcd monitors, photoshop, precariousness, serendipity, television static, the lost symbol, waiting for godot, wayne dyer, work in progress, yoga on May 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
What have you been doing? I’ve been reading about Utopian Architecture and speaking Art with my wonderful students. I’ve been breaking LCD monitors and buying inferior ones on Craigslist (which does not have a return policy). I have decluttered my place, simplified my life (hello facebook/Big Brother withdrawals), embraced yoga and precariousness. I have been […]
Artuesday | Students’ Work!
Posted in Artuesdays, Experiments, Lectures, Painting, School Work, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged art, coffee shop, Francisco Sanin, neoclassic to modern art, newschool of architecture and design, painting exhibit, Students' artwork, Syracuse on April 20, 2010| 2 Comments »
I spent the better part of last night ‘curating’ and putting up a small show of my students’ work. Last quarter I promised my Neoclassic to Modern Art students I would organize an exhibit of their art in the main foyer of our school and I am happy to announce that that’s one promise kept:) […]
Healing Art
Posted in art,poetry,writing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Graphic Design, Painting, Quotes, Spontaneous Constructs, Uncategorized, Watercolor on February 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Art is a wound turned into light. Georges Braque (Thank You Lamees)
A [visual] parting note…censored
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Coffee, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Kuwaiti Diaries, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged Casper & Gambini, Censorship, Coffee, collage, graphite, Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait malls, Low-tech, The Avenues, Tracing Paper on February 1, 2010| 1 Comment »
This was my small parting gift to my art-sister Ghadah. I went to Kuwait without a proper gift for her, so I thought I would leave her with a low-tech collage, on tracing paper, of my trip. In keeping with the theme of censorship, which fascinated me- and was the basis for a project of a […]
Coffee Culture
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Coffee, Drawing, Poetry, tagged cafe de la presse, cafe', Coffee, coffee & culture, culture, Futo Coffee, graphite, ink, masking letters, moments of urbanity, newschool of architecture and design, pilot pen, san francisco, urban moments on November 19, 2009| 2 Comments »
San Francisco – Cafe’ De La Presse Legendary Literary Cafe’ a stone’s throw from the French Embassy. The staff’s uniforms were très French, the atmosphere European, and the cappuccino was ….flawless. All photographs taken with Lumix (Panasonic) camera, Leica wide lens. San Diego: Newschool of Architecture and Design – Cafe’ A la Carte Bringing coffee, culture […]
Sketcher’s Essentials
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Drawing, Paper Goods on November 9, 2009| 7 Comments »
I‘m back. I have been asked to write a post on my sketching tools, and it took a while to organize my ‘shooting session’. Also, less than ten days ago, the unthinkable happened: my artist pouch went missing. This was followed by a period of ‘mourning’ and this drawing to put on a sign (yes, I am […]
A Sunday at the Getty
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Drawing, Writing on November 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On Sunday November 1, I was graciously invited by students from my school to join in a field trip to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. On the way there, we watched a video about the design and construction of the museum, and the controversy between the architect, Richard Meier, and the artist, Robert Irwin. […]
Of Fragments, inspiration, and being remarkable.
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Digital Collage, F R A G M E N T S, Portfolio of Work, Quotes, Writing on September 6, 2009| 4 Comments »
F R A G M E N T S is a series that I am starting to ‘salvage’ pieces of artworks in my digital trunk. I sometimes find old artwork that, while it may not work perfectly on the whole, still contains interesting textures or details. The image above is part of a larger digital […]
Coffee, watercolors, and Robert Venturi
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Drawing, Painting, Portfolio of Work on August 24, 2009| 3 Comments »
I have been experimenting with sepia tones done using espresso and with watercolors. I am teaching a Rendering and Delineation class and the work done as demonstration for the students was great inspiration to continue sketching and using different ways to color the initial drawing. I suggested to my students a technique that I found […]
Fashion, Consumption, Art?
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Digital Collage, Writing on July 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: Great timing. NYT just published an article on Polyvore 11 hours ago! The site will now get a lot of attention. You know you heard about it first here;) This collage was created with Polyvore, an online tool which allows users to compose collections using everyday objects of consumptions. More than a game, […]
The photographic experiment which became an honorable mention (a.k.a follow your inspiration!)..
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Digital Collage, Photography on May 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »
It all started with a visit to the Desert Garden at the Huntington Library. As I was shooting the cacti, these fragile, blue-green plants, the image of a community came to mind, a community that had the desert garden for habitat, where nature functioned thanks to symbiosis. I thought about overlaying the images of the […]
thankyou so much for visiting…[portfolios finally… finally!]
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Digital Collage, Portfolio of Work, Writing, tagged Digital Collage on February 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
My portfolio albums: please click on the tabs on top of the page for my in-progress portfolio of work. Drawing Painting and Collages Photography Check back often as I am digitizing all my work:) …this is a Long awaited moment. I wanted to have my small corner of the online galaxy since 2002, and I […]
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Ink on tracing paper. Kuwait, January 2010. The scene at the bottom is what I saw-or decided to see- at The Avenues, the most popular malla in Kuwait City. There is nothing like seeing photography and drawings from a trip abroad to make you realize all reality is subjective, and we choose to see what we want to. We just don’t realize it in our own backyard.
our very own coffee cart @ NewSchool: Cafe’ A la Carte
Ink on Paper. September 2009
Earth and Water. Beads and yarn. June 24, 2011
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Casa Del Fascio, contrast corrected thru Photoshop, Como, 2007
Earth Henna, Eucalyptus Oil. May 2, 2010.
Ink on Paper. Calabria, Italia. September 29, 2011.
Felt tip on paper. March 22, 2011.
Miniature Pomegranate. Watercolor on chocolate wrap. Kuwait. January 2010
Collage, Pilot Pen on Paper
Mare Mosso Act II. Graphite drawing by Gianni Aiello. Collage. March 18,2011
Ink on hand.book paper. Paris, 2011.
Platonic Solid Exercise. Graphite on Paper. 2007
The Sun, the Moon, and on there being no abstracts in life. Pencil, ink, watercolor on 4″X5″ canvas.2009
Dr. Gregory House. Watercolor on Paper. June 3, 2010
Ink on Paper. December 2010.
Mare Mosso Act III. Graphite and pen drawing by Gianni Aiello. Collag and pastel. March 19, 2011.
Queen Califia’s Garden, Totem/Sculpture. Ink, color pencils and markers. 2009
Watercolor and Graphite. November 12, 2009
The funambulist. Ink drawing + digital collage. August 2011.
Coffee Carrier (delle). Graphite on paper. Kuwait. January 2010
Ink on Paper. December 2010.
Persimmon- very quick pastel rendering. November 12, 2009.
Barcelona Chairs by Mies Van De Rohe, 1929 @ the CED Library in Berkeley
Waiting for Godot | Static Head. Digital Collage. May 5th, 2010
Concept for jewelry piece ‘twomoons’
July 27, San Diego Museum Of Art. The Age of Enlightenment – Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breuteuil, Marquise du Chatelet by Yinka Shonibare- Ink on hand.book paper
Ink and watercolor on paper and tracing paper. A bit of digital manipulation. Feb. 09,2011.
Baggalini Red.
Watercolor on paper. June 3, 2010
Graphite on paper and magazine cutouts. December 27, 2010. Miti and Gianni Aiello.
Final Twomoons Piece, Summer 2008
The Fortress of Lost Time. Graphite on paper and magazine cutouts. December 27, 2010. Miti and Gianni Aiello.
Pilot pen on paper. January 2011
Pencil and Watercolor on canvas
Twomoons Wax Proof-modeled after concept sketch
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