Might have to paint this one! photo via uuiuu

                                Fresh mural painting (16 x 8m) by french graffiti artist Tilt in London
                 that represents the Union Jack made of the lyrics from Anarchy in the UK by Sex Pistols.

 Oxidized Mirrors by David Derksen Design: Transcience

Hildur Yeiman: Garden of Enchantment

 Giuliano Bekor shot this incredible cover entitled Beauty for Harper’s Bazaar.

Frame play

Sherrie Levine: Mayhem

Handa  jumping by Yaman Ibrahim 

‘Cardinal Sin‘ a new work by Banksy at the Walker Art Gallery  Liverpool

John Baldessari

My husband is a natural pro at taking shots,
LOVE this one from his phone of the Central Park Reservoir.

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Really cool conceptual photography project by French photographer Alain Delorme.

Regine Ramseier created this beautiful exhibit for the ArToll art lab, hanging over 2,000 dandelions from the ceiling.
Inspired by the cycle of life and death, she invites visitors to hold their breath and appreciate the moment.

Carlsbad Flower Fields in San Diego

Balancing act – via piccsy

I love this photo but wouldn’t love to be one of the students here!

Teeth wall- How cool is this!

Transparent  Bliss – Photo by Johnny Miller

David T. Waller  Rainbow Toy Car Installation

I’m gonna keep dreaming about these windows and this light!

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As the year comes to a close I’m filled with tremendous gratitude. This year was filled with many new experiences which opened new doors for me and I believe really helped me grow as an individual and an artist. To all my readers, fellow artists, friends, collectors and customers, I give you all a HUGE THANK YOU! !! Your comments and support are invaluable to me.  I hope you all have a wild time ringing in the new year and may all your dreams come true in 2012!!

>>Here’s a collage I had fun putting together today of some favorite  pieces sold in my Inspira Metro Jewelry Shop / 2011<<

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Why should we live if we must die? It is one of the questions Danish artist and fashion designer, Nikoline Liv Andersen puts forth in this exhibition, “Slowly Seeping Through My Hands” which opened in Denmark back in November at the Horsens Museum of the Arts and which will run until February  5th 2012.  The exhibition includes the clothes she created along with artworks that evoke fairy-tales and grotesques suggestions, motives of her visionary works . With a plethora of bodies, thick fabrics, flowers and fruits, life’s transience is reflected upon, man in defense against death and the body in decomposition. Through baroque vanitas-settings and references to the myth of Sisyphus — society’s eternal quest for financial abundance in a life that undoubtedly lose all worldliness at the end — the project expresses a life without meaning that will inevitably end.

  The color palette, the materials, the hair, the MONKEY!!!  Incredible!

My collection describes a dream of a childish world with eternal time to play in conflict with the busy and claustrophobic adult reality. I’m inspired by infertility in modern literature, for instance “Momo” by Michael Ende, where real values are only visible if you slow down, enjoy and reflect. The child is the knowing person. I’m always fascinated of telling a story with my clothes, styling, music and setting. I try to work aesthetic with sometimes harsh and thought-provoking subjects.

Since I was little, I had an endless fascination with aesthetic and visual story telling. My heart is beating and my fingers are itching to dress and dress up. I see it as a duty and a great motivation to push the borders of what you are able to wear and not to dwell in the land of compromises where existing target groups are being pleased.

 Straw dresses

She became fascinated with plastic drinking straws and developed a technique to sewing them onto pieces of fabric to create garments.  What blows my mind is how by adjusting the height, angle, and color she created varied textures with the same plastic pieces.

Yes, there is another monkey up there

Beautiful balance

 Just thinking now if Nikoline ever collaborated with Nick Cave it would be pretty cool.

This jacket is crazy!!  I would have to have two,one to wear and one to hang on my wall.

For the past six years Nikoline Liv Andersen has occupied herself (besides one extra year and a master’s degree at Denmark’s design school) with a number of exhibitions in Berlin and Reykjavik, and an internship with John Galliano at Dior, acquired a degree in illustration, and received a scholarship from the Danish Government Art Fund. Now she has won a catwalk show as part of the +46 Awards and will show her collection on August 16.

“I am in constant battle with the lack of fantasy in the adult world so I try to emphasize that conflict in my collections. The naive and sometimes a bit romantic designs get a certain edge when placed in contrast with reality.” Explains Nikoline Liv Andersen when quizzed by +46 on the forthcoming collection.

I’m wild about these overflowing sketch books of hers which clearly reveal her highly creative and charged prolific mind.

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