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Curves and Zigzags is the third work from an ongoing series of free-standing walls that straddle painting and sculpture. Comte’s practice embraces all media with equal ferocity and she uses this series to examine what happens when two-dimensional painting is superimposed on three dimensional structure. Unlike graffiti artists her walls are built specifically for the work they carry. In Curves and Zigzags, the painting starts with a stringent geometric composition that gradually morphs into a more organic wave like pattern reminiscent of Bridget Riley optical paintings or the gardens of Burle Marx. Playing on the constant exchange of dualities – nature and culture, order and chaos, geometric and organic form – Comte’s wall suggests a walk through the shifting sands of abstraction and on to a place where beauty and contemplation sit side by side.
I love Little Zigzag Falls, tucked away in the National Forest. It's quite accessible, but I don't think many people know about it. It looks really nice right now with all the snow melt coming down. A lot more water now than last September when I visited here. The sun came out RIGHT as I got here, making the shooting of this waterfall tricky.
fabrics: parson gray curious nature, cloud9 cut out and keep, moda bella solids
WIP blogged here: imaginegnats.blogspot.com/2012/06/dogood-blocks-and-zigza...
This is a project I drew up and pieced earlier this year. I used half-square triangle paper for the boats and the zigzags. This quilt is headed for Sutter Memorial Hospital's Pediactrics Unit. Blogged here.
The Yuyuan Garden (豫å›) are located in the center of the Old City of Shanghai, China, next to the Chenghuangmiao. They are considered one of the most lavish and finest Chinese gardens in the region.
The garden was first established in 1559 as a private garden created by Pan Yunduan, who spent almost 20 years building a garden to please his father Pan En, a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, during his father's old age. Over the years, the gardens fell into disrepair until about 1760 when bought by merchants, then suffered extensive damage in the 19th century. In 1842, during the Opium Wars, the British army occupied the Town God Temple for five days. During the Taiping Rebellion the gardens were occupied by imperial troops, and damaged again by the Japanese in 1942. They were repaired by the Shanghai government from 1956-1961, opened to the public in 1961, and declared a national monument in 1982.
Today, Yuyuan Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares (5 acres), and is divided into six general areas laid out in the Suzhou style:
Grand Rockery - rockery made of huangshi stone (12 m high), featuring peaks, cliffs, winding caves and gorges. This scenery was possibly created by Zhang Nanyang in the Ming Dynasty. This area also contains the Sansui (Three Corn Ears) Hall.
Heralding Spring Hall (Dianchun) - built in 1820, the first year of the Emperor Daoguang's reign. From September 1853 to February 1855, it served as the base of the Small Swords Society (Xiaodao Hui).
Inner Garden - rockeries, ponds, pavilions, and towers, first laid out in 1709 and more recently recreated in 1956 by combining its east and west gardens.
Jade Magnificence Hall (Yuhua) - furnished with rosewood pieces from the Ming Dynasty.
Lotus Pool - with a zigzag bridge and mid-lake pavilion.
Ten Thousand-Flower Tower (Wanhua)
Garden areas are separated by "dragon walls" with undulating gray tiled ridges, each terminating in a dragon's head.
For more information abou the Yuyuan gardens, Shanghai and China, please visit my website: www.abookaboutchina.com/travelguide/Shanghai
I love how it turned out! I used a black and white polka dot binding, did stippling in the aqua sections, and did three lines in each zig zag. One of my favorites!
The construction of Little Moreton Hall began around 1450, but it is best known for its picturesque Elizabethan additions, especially its gatehouse, built from the 1560s onwards. Unlike Hardwick, Burghley and Longleat, Little Moreton Hall is not grand, appearing old fashioned with its asymmetrical half-timbering.
Rather than quoting Renaissance details, it relies on pattern to engage the viewer. Diagonal stud work is mostly used, creating chevron patterns that zigzag across the façades, interrupted occasionally by windows. On the top floor, a long gallery with its grid of windows stretches across, somehow supported by the groaning storeys below. Through this love of pattern, and its glazing scheme, the house struggles to be up-to-date.
Being black and white, Little Moreton it often called a ‘magpie house.’ Like a magpie’s nest, the hall seems like a motley collection of remnants, and it is this haphazard nature that Britton captures in this topographical engraving. At this date, Little Moreton really was tumbledown, the roof rotten, the windows boarded up, a world away from the hall’s current restored state, with its gardens clipped into neat patterns, echoing the façades
I found this in an antique shop in hamilton missouri. I gave $35 for it. It came with 1 left hand needle plate. it runs smooth and easy. works great on the treadle. It treadles effortlessly.
I just got done installing it in this treadle cab. that i got in Desmoines Ia this summer. I've been wanting a zig zag machine that looks old and this fits the ticket. I have another one but it is newer and was going to take a bit more modification to make it work in a treadle. this one didnt. This one looks a lot like the Nicchi BU zig zag machines I've seen.
"E.S. Perry Iridinoid London". An offset pen nib. I actually got this in a small box of old bits and pieces when my grandmother's house was cleared. It might have been my grandfather's. Writes quite well.
O eixo Monumental visto do setor hoteleiro Norte... são as linhas retas de BrasÃlia
Gonne Explore on Aug 10, 2008.
You can read more about this project to mod a canvas bag at www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/makebag.
Hansel and Gretel are alive and well
And they're living in Berlin
She is a cocktail waitress
He had a part in a Fassbinder film
And they sit around at night now
drinking schnapps and gin
And she says: Hansel, you're really bringing me down
And he says: Gretel, you can really be a bitch
He says: I've wasted my life on our stupid legend
When my one and only love
was the wicked witch.--Laurie Anderson