Fall Foliage

Image from A Well Traveled Woman.

Tying Flies

Shawn Davis, Chemistry Teacher by Day and Fly Tyer by Night

More images and copy at The Anthropologist.

Details in Dress

edging on the cuff

the watch isn't bad either

buttons down the back are always a hit

it is always fun to have a great lining in your coat

the arm party

 Top and bottom images from Guerreisms second, third image from Vineet Kaur, fourth from Have Less Be More.

Black and Blue

Image from Guerreisms.

John Derian's Homes

apartment in the city

2nd home

shop items

great floor

Styling by Jocelyne Beaudion represented by Art Department.

How does your workspace look?

Image from Life of Polarn Per.

Color by the Book or Books by the Color?

do you organize your books by color?

Image from Emblem Antiques

Reflections from the Saints

"Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death."

– St. Stephen of Hungary

Day of the Dead

Artisans Oaxacas Fine Art Gallery

Photo by Robert Weil.

Breathtaking

Image from Life of Polarn Per.

Sitting at the Counter Breakfast

There is nothing like sitting at the counter and watching the cooks work. It has made us dizzy before. There is an art to getting it all done at the right time.

Photos by Robert Weil.

Beate Gutschow

About Beate Gutschow: She was born in Mainz, Germany in 1970. Gutschow went to the School of Fine Arts in Oslo, Germany, as well as, the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany. She is widely know and has show her work across Europe and the United States. She took part in an Artist Residency at ArtSway and has shown her work at the Contemporary Museum of Photography in Chicago.

About Beate Gutschow's work: Gutschow's works is really about challenging the ideas of truth and fiction. In this series, LS Gutschow has constructed images of landscapes. In the images of "natural landscapes" she has collaged images to create the perfect landscape based of the rules of painting landscape from the 17th and 18th century masters. The construction and composition of these images give us clues to the "created" reality that Gutschow is presenting to us. The nature landscapes are cast after painting from the 17th and 18th century while the building landscapes are fabricated and have no clues to an actual location. Also the building landscapes were shot with black and white film and the grain becomes an evidence to the changes in the imagery. Gutschow expresses that she wants the viewer to question it, to ask questions about what it is, what it can mean or be.  

“Landscape (nature) never looked like this. In my work ideal means not to exclude the

ugliness, it means to construct reality.”- I like this quote from Gutschow because she speaks of creating Reality... instead of creating fiction or a false view.

This is the image that first attracted me to the works of Beate Gutschow.

Copy from Ashley Selbe with images from Google.