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I Don't Like To Dream About Getting Paid.

After watching and posting that video of Steve Powers (he always gets me thinking about words), I remembered how much I like Patrick Martinez' neon signs. So many good references.

New Work: Kate MccGwire.

Kate Mccgwire sent over images of her latest body of work. The pieces are named; Guile, Lure, Quell, Seer and Yearn. Her work continually floors me. Each feather placed just right. Stunning.

You can see a q&a I did with Kate last year here.

All Photographs by Tessa Angus courtesy of All Visual Arts

Ulrika Kestere's The Girl with the 7 Horses.

Reader, Ulrika Kestere sent me her photographic essay The Girl with the 7 Horses. I love it! The images, the idea and fairytale story behind it:

Once upon a time there was a girl who had 7 invisible horses. People thought she was crazy and that she in fact had 7 imaginative horses, but this was not the case. When autumn came the girl spent a whole day washing all her clothes. She hung them on a string in her garden to let the gentle autumn sun dry them. Out of nowhere, a terrible storm came and its fiercefull winds grabbed a hold of all her clothes and all seven horses (authors note: since they are invisible they obviously didn't weigh much). The girl was devistated and spent all autumn looking for each horse spread around the country, wrapped in her clothes.

Be sure to stop by Ulrika's blog to see the other 3 horses.

Video: The Making of Ai Wei Wei's Sunflower Seeds.

"In the political areas  you can see the paintings, all the paintings always have sunflower seeds. Whenever Chairman Mao comes out there are sunflowers around him. That means Chairman Mao is the sun. And those are all the ordinary people who are loyal to the party; are the sunflowers. So sunflowers supported the whole revolution spiritually and in material ways."

via ArtInfo

New Work: Richard Pearse.

I chatted with Richard Pearse recently via email — about his latest group of work. Many of the pieces you see here are featured in Richard's show, WINTER IN THE COWSHED that opened last weekend at KRETS.

I have featured Richard's work a few times (first as a Reader Love post back in 2010). I've never asked him about his process or the time he puts into it until recently, he happily told me:

"I couldn't say how long exactly but if you consider all the cutting, gluing and then
contemplation & consideration time it all starts to add up. It's a
challenge managing time but I try to have around 3 or 4 on the go at
once to keep the whole gluing/drying phase of the process in check and
to obviously keep my mind stimulated by not staring at the same pieces
for too long - well at least thats the plan."

I'm not sure why (or why I am admitting this outloud), but I never actually realized that Richard cut and glued each and every piece of wood within his work. I just thought he was lucky enough to find awesome salvaged wood that he painted. That's what you get here folks, me admiting to being somehow oblivious to completley obvious happenings. Regardless, I now have an even deeper appreciation and love for his work.

Do you have a favorite of in this new group? It's so hard to choose, but I love the one right below.