the new state of mind

usually, when i looked at photographs, i saw memories. bad or good, or almost forgotten. but years go by and we are all growing up. photographs becomes medium for us to keep the moment alive. my new state of mind maybe too simple. but i believe that every big wonderful things started from simple little things. this year must be really awesome for me and agung, because we will meet our son very soon. and we will fill our life with a great greatest and greater memories. it may not always nice, or good, and maybe too cliche for the rest of us. but our memories is ours. whether it is bad or maybe wrong. i really do we can keep learning. keep doing. keep going.
this is some random heart touching (at least for me) daily photographs. i think they are so awesome.

1. Hannah Davis and her travel diary

"We went travelling for 6 and a half months – starting in New Zealand, then we travelled through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.  That was the first half of our trip.  Then we flew to San Francisco (where I have just got to on the blog!) and we travelled around the west side of the states, started running out of money so decided to go to Jamaica before our last week in New York! I haven’t been particularly selective about the photos shown – for myself they are a collection of memories as much as anything. Obviously to someone who doesn’t know us, I wanted the photos to depict a journey which captures that wonderful feeling of drifting from one place to the next – taking in beautiful landscapes and also catching a more intimate glimpse of our lives on the road."

follow her flickr, website, and her travel blog 

2. Anna Gawlak and her photo album

"This is my photo album. Its creation is like spinning a tale: spooling a film, snapping photographs, composing them… The narrative about calmness and naturalness. Calmness is more than lack of movement – I cannot stop searching it everywhere I am. Searching the naturalness means trying to pick out what is true and simple in the world – I cannot stop doing it. But, first and foremost, my own story is about big, big love. I love the world: light, colour, contrast, symmetry, trees, tasty food, buildings, doors, feet, ankles, eyes. I love the human being. Everywhere I am – I cannot stop searching. And all that makes the simple pleasures of life."

follow her tumblr, flickr, or her facebook page

 

jo hamilton

Jo Hamilton is scotland born artist and works in portland. she learnt drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art and recently choose crochet as a medium much later in her career.

“My house is filled with balls of yarn, all arranged by colour on shelves. I can pull them out as I need them for my palate. A portrait can take anything up to forty or fifty hours, but I haven’t actually counted, and I spend just as much time looking as actually crocheting. The pieces evolve from the inside out. I make no graphs, plans or charts; it’s a row-by-row organic process in which I don’t always know the outcome, but have learned to trust my way of working,” -Jo Hamilton

Her pieces are mounted on the walls with the yarn ends dangling giving them a quirky just-off-the-hook air.

in my work I use a traditional basic crochet technique taught to me at an early age by my gran.
I work one knot at a time, from the inside out, row by row. for example, in making the portraits
I always begin in the middle with the eyes and work out from there until the piece is completed.
I work directly from photographs, using no sketches, graphs or computer imaging. each piece
is instinctively composed, handmade, labour-intensive. nothing is planned ahead; I make it up
as I go along. I spend a lot of time simply looking, unraveling, and reworking until I get it right.’

-Jo Hamilton

go to her review here and here. and her official website.

ceramic accecoris

well, i don't wear jewelry in daily basis. but i love love love ceramic. and i really dig what i found in the internet about ceramic jewelry recently..

earring and faceted porcelain combine with silver from talented australian artist, abby seymour

again, abby seymour.

porcelain and red decal ring from artmind

another ring from artmind

color porcelain handmade and one only ring from maaPstudio

beautiful details color porcelain ring

rad idea! ceramic for hair by brook&lyn

ceramic barrete when in use

hexagon porcelain earring from hookandmatter

rosette prize ribbon ceramic necklace from vanillakiln

baby alba

matt and nirimi is such a awesome parents! before their baby girl, alba born, they took a lot of artistic yet personal picture about their journey to meet their baby alba. maybe it is because i am pregnant right now, but just looking the picture makes me realized that it is very important to documentation your beautiful experience for being a parents.

dozen random cactuses

cactus |ˈkaktəs|

noun ( pl. -ti |-tī; -tē| or -tuses )

a succulent plant with a thick, fleshy stem that typically bears spines, lacks leaves, and has brilliantly colored flowers. Cacti are native to arid regions of the New World and are cultivated elsewhere, esp. as houseplants. • Family Cactaceae: numerous genera and species.

DERIVATIVES

cactaceous |kakˈtā sh əs| |køkˈteɪʃəs| |-ˈteɪʃəs| adjective

ORIGIN

early 17th cent. (in the sense [cardoon] ): from Latin, from Greek kaktos ‘cardoon.’

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HELLO

hi there! we know we've been hiding for a lot of while. it is because we make experiment about our vision, which is heavily related to our next final products.
Agugn have been very busy with his letterpress machines and printing stuffs since he make lets go press letterpress printing services and joined a lot of group national exhibitions. while Puti pretty busy in the house making new artwork and take care her belly bum.
we want to apology for our ignorance and our laziness for neglected this page.with this post, we tried to commit more active in or out our offline life.

this is what we make while we gone...

ceramic brooches. hand drawing with glaze by puti.

our last custom bukal bag.

a few crocheted squares, later will attach each others for a summer baby blanket.

sampling for our next final products.

agugn arrange our kitchen with his awesome terracotta hand built vase with tiger orchid from our beloved neighbor.

delivering letterpress machines to surabaya and so on.

agugn's artwork at selasar sunaryo artspace, bandung while he joined a group exhibition called 'bandung new emergence vol.4'.

puti's artwork at the same exhibition with agung in july 2012.

'nirbaya jagratara'- agung's linocut print inspired by our experience for not being afraid and do our best when bad things happen to us. this print has won the first place in trienalle seni grafis (art print trienalle).

puti's attempt to make a silly zine.

puti's attempt to make ceramic rings. she gave up after found out 10:90 failed chances when you hand modeled the ceramic ring.

we bought handmade recycle lava lamp from our good mellow friend in tryptical.

i think that's pretty wrap our stories when we gone. outside that, maybe a new artwork, new progress in our handmade life, and friends come and go. hence, we are still ourselves-only grew older. have a nice weekend!