Final piece for the Natural History/Advertising project.
Source: http://ruineshumaines.tumblr.com
Gwen John, Cat, c. 1904-08
From the Tate Gallery:
Gwen John adored her cats, and depicted them frequently. This one, a tortoiseshell named Edgar Quinet, appears in most of her cat drawings, sometimes with her kittens. The name was taken from the address where John lived in 1904 when she first had the cat, 19 boulevard Edgar Quinet in Paris. When Edgar Quinet ran away in 1908, John was devastated. In a letter to a friend, Ursula Tyrwhitt, she wrote, ‘when the cats make love I run to see if my sweet is one of them’. She composed a poem to her loss, ‘Au Chat’, which she sent to Rodin.
Ballet dancers
Diane Meyer: Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten
We’ve stumbled over this collection of photographs dressed with a poignant twist by artist Diane Meyer over at Flavorwire, and we just fell in love at first sight. Have a look.
The act of blurring certain portions (if not, all) of a photograph is not exactly groundbreaking, but what makes Diane Meyer’s work stand out is that she takes personal photographs taken at various points and places of her life, and obscures sections by meticulously sewing each pixel in.
