Claiborne Colombo is an artist, Creative and Design Director based on Lopez Island, WA.NOTES
Making art and designing things where the land meets the sea. A digital journal and visual record of Claiborne’s art, life, design, and inspiration among all other things…
Stereotypes Of Color.
interesting commentary on color especially that of the cultural push that pink is girly.
“ Before it was seen as a “girly” color, pink was gender neutral and commonly worn by men. When pink was chosen as the symbolic color of breast cancer, there was a feminist backlash. And when Chicago decided to make one of its subway lines pink, some scoffed. A writer for The Chicago Tribune said it was “strange” to have a pink line “in a city known for … deep-dish pizza and Chicago Bear-loving beer guzzlers.”
Geometric Wool.
the beauty of mexico brought home in this amazing wall hanging i’m absolutely in love with by evokethespirit
Instagram, Art and artists.
Artists are taking control, telling their story and finding people who want to hear it.
How To Be A Revolutionary Feminist Artist, While Hardly Noticing.
Barbara Nessim’s work may seem playful and even innocuous, but in fact, that’s what makes her endless combinations of colors and lines so dangerous. Since the 1960s Nessim has been at the front lines of both illustration and feminism, crafting an…
One Art
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
– Emily Bishop
Good Reads
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
Art 101: How to Think About Conceptual Art | Artspace
A historically minded primer on the often-intangible medium that, in the hands of artists from Duchamp to Lawrence Weiner, helped transform art as we knew it in throughout the 20th century