Beautiful Nightmare

October 29, 2013

Artist Valeria Myrusso specializes in unsettling imagery. I can’t quite put my finger on why this piece below gives off a sense of eeriness, but there is definitely something vaguely creepy about the creature melded with the violin here. It makes me think of being trapped, that this might be something I’d see in a nightmare–and yet it’s just really beautiful.

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A large part of its beauty is in the abundance of detail. All the tiny details, the faces and filigree and even the little floating orbs around the character’s neck come together to give this piece an otherworldly quality. This photo alone doesn’t show half of it, either. Take a look at her page with detailed shots of the piece here. If you like her work, she has more, both in polymer and in other materials, on her website.

Keep at It

July 14, 2013

I suspect many more of you than the standard sampling of our world do actually live a life you want and deserve. Being able to practice and create art feeds the soul and fills one’s life with an immense  joy that is hard to find in other work–certainly for those of us for which creating is as intrinsic as sleeping, eating, and breathing. But in the studio, there are projects, techniques, forms, and even deadlines that challenge us to a point that we want to give up. So whether its the life you have at the moment or a particular aspect of your art you struggle with, remember, you can achieve what you dream of. It is within your reach, in some form, in some significant way. And besides, it’s the challenges and the hope of overcoming them that really gets us up in the morning. If there was nothing to strive for, it wouldn’t be living and what we do wouldn’t be art.

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Beautiful Nightmare

October 29, 2013
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Artist Valeria Myrusso specializes in unsettling imagery. I can’t quite put my finger on why this piece below gives off a sense of eeriness, but there is definitely something vaguely creepy about the creature melded with the violin here. It makes me think of being trapped, that this might be something I’d see in a nightmare–and yet it’s just really beautiful.

369849_600

A large part of its beauty is in the abundance of detail. All the tiny details, the faces and filigree and even the little floating orbs around the character’s neck come together to give this piece an otherworldly quality. This photo alone doesn’t show half of it, either. Take a look at her page with detailed shots of the piece here. If you like her work, she has more, both in polymer and in other materials, on her website.

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Keep at It

July 14, 2013
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I suspect many more of you than the standard sampling of our world do actually live a life you want and deserve. Being able to practice and create art feeds the soul and fills one’s life with an immense  joy that is hard to find in other work–certainly for those of us for which creating is as intrinsic as sleeping, eating, and breathing. But in the studio, there are projects, techniques, forms, and even deadlines that challenge us to a point that we want to give up. So whether its the life you have at the moment or a particular aspect of your art you struggle with, remember, you can achieve what you dream of. It is within your reach, in some form, in some significant way. And besides, it’s the challenges and the hope of overcoming them that really gets us up in the morning. If there was nothing to strive for, it wouldn’t be living and what we do wouldn’t be art.

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