Month: August 2011

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Sculpture Moment

Paige Bradley's sculpture "Expansion"
Paige Bradley's sculpture "Expansion" www.PaigeBradley.com

Today I saw a photo of a very interesting sculpture on someone’s Facebook page, and I thought I’d share it here.  It is done by Paige Bradley, and you can see her sculpture on her website here.  It’s worth a look even if you only like this one piece, because you can see the illuminated base of the sculpture, plus other backdrops with it.  Also she has a section of her site where she shows drawings, under the tab “works on paper.”

Before I mention my own thoughts about the sculpture, I wanted to ask, what does this sculpture mean/show/evoke for you?  Do you like it?  Why?  There are four different photos of this sculpture on her website.  This one here on my blog is the only one I could easily download, but it’s not my favorite of the photos.  Which is your favorite?

I am not always moved by sculptures, but I particularly like the light coming from within her.  Personally, it reminds me of the light generated by one’s energy centers, or chakras, emanating out into that person’s aura.   Energy blocks, denial, facades or deceptive self- images we hide behind can surpress our energy a little like the opaque parts of the sculpture.  For me the woman shown in the sculpture knows that her true freedom and wisdom comes from within, and from clearing the burdens and energy blocks she has within her own space.   My favorite two photos are on her website, where it shows the illuminated base of the sculpture as well.

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Mini art, the way of the future

Aceo’s have been around for a while but for some reason I’m just getting into them. In case you don’t know, ACEO stands for Art Cards, Editions & Originals. They are miniature works of art the size of trading or playing cards (2.5 x 3.5) and are a great way to own original art or prints at an affordable price. There are little easels you can buy to display them, or you can use a business card holder to display them on a mantle, bookcase or your desk at work. You can even use them as bookmarks or gift tags!

We’ve just added a bunch of these little gems to our etsy store and more will be coming soon. There are lots of prints, but right now only a couple of originals.  I’ll have to get to work on that! Here’s the link to that page.

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“King Corn” movie inspires eating changes…..

King Corn documentary
Food for thought.....

We just finished watching “King Corn” which is a documentary movie we saw “On Demand” with our Netflix.com subscription.  Part of the movie covers how cheap corn is used as feed for cattle, which really isn’t the best for their health.  They are fed on feed lots where they can’t get much exercise due to crowding, and fattened up as soon as possible, in months in stead of years.  One guy in the movie said the cows are basically obese, plus it showed just a bit of how it gives them excess stomach acid and other health issues so they have to be given antibiotics all the time.

Well I think this movie has finally pushed us into changing our food buying and eating habits, at least with beef.  I will document in this blog how it goes for us so you can see if our resolve lasts.  Just check the lower right side of the page where you see categories listed and go to the Food category in the future to see other posts on this.  Up until now we have tried to economize and have bought our ground beef and frozen chicken at Trader Joes, and cold cuts and frozen tilapia at Aldi.  I had already decided to stop buying cold cuts period because for some reason they make me break out.  Because of this movie we will try to only buy beef from Whole Foods and we’ll make sure it’s grass fed not corn/grain fed. As far as our chicken, we are still debating what to do.  I think we are nervous about the cost, but we’ll have to investigate the cost difference between frozen chicken at Trader Joes and chicken pieces at the Whole Foods meat counter.  Most likely Trader Joe’s frozen chicken comes from a factory farm where antibiotics are given liberally.  Now do we change all that now, or just our beef buying habits?  How about you guys, dear readers?  So we’re definitely changing our beef buying, but for chicken we will research further.  Stay tuned!

The movie also discusses how much calories people consume with sodas which have tons of high fructose corn syrup.  We already don’t drink soda, so we’re OK there.  Years ago I heard how soda syrup can be used to clean corrosion off of truck engines, and that was pretty much it for me and soda.