Category Archives: creativity
Infinity Mirrors: Yayoi Kusama Rooms 6 and 7
Dots Obsession-Love Transformed into Dots 2007, installed 2018 After viewing room 5, the pumpkin room that I could not photograph because of some previous fool, you move down a corridor and then make a turn into room 6 which brings … Continue reading
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors Room 2
Yayoi started working in earnest with the dot and net motifs when she came to New York City in 1957. Her career really took off and she began doing her soft sculptures (see below), installation work and staged performance based … Continue reading
Yayao Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
As I explained earlier The Infinity Mirrors show only went to five museums in the United States as directed by the artist Yayoi Kusama. She very much controls who and how her works get seen. The museums had to bid for … Continue reading
The Last of The Gardens: The Unicorn and the Fabulous Caravan
We have reached the last installment of the Botanical Gardens for this year. I did get a message about what the gardens look like in the winter and to be honest, I don’t have a clue. It has never … Continue reading
The Atlanta Botanical Gardens – THE DRAGON Part Trois
I got a tremendous amount of email this past week asking if I could show more photos of each installation and the detail of each piece. Naturally I am happy to comply so we will still have to cover next … Continue reading
The Atlanta Botanical Gardens – Imaginary Worlds
This is the entrance hall to the gardens where one buys tickets, can go to the rest rooms and take a rest in air conditioning. I love these metal leaves. I could not see where there was a sign for … Continue reading
Jon Gardella’s town in the Netherlands and his studio
Garnered, Netherlands I had to find where Jon was located, no small feat. So if you look at the map, up at the top you will see a blue line north of Groningen which is the major town near where … Continue reading
Design and Symbolism
http://www.jleone.com http://www.zazzle.com/J_leone_designs Well first let me apologize for being late, really late today. My statistics tell me that people went to blog today and found nothing new. But in my defense, we have had endless rain down here … Continue reading
Artistry in Nature
Today we are going to look at Artistry in Nature. When you look at art, figurative art, which is using real things from life; landscapes, humans, cities, animals, as opposed to abstract art, an incredible amount of it is nature; … Continue reading
Gone to Scotland – Back from Scotland
Heavy Flames Rock Band http://www.maharajablues.com Maharaja Blues DA PLANE: So on the plane on the way over, my seat mate was the fabulous Jonathan Browning! He plays in two bands, Heave Flames which is a rock band and Maharaja Blues … Continue reading
Dazzle, Razzle and Zazzle
zazzle.com/J_leone_designs Despite all the disasters, I still worked everyday. I spent a lot of time developing designs, from my photographs for fabric design. Getting a design to repeat across yards and yards of fabric is NO EASY THING. I now … Continue reading
Textures and Patterns
Okay all of you out in the blogosphere a little test for today: look at the four pictures below, take into account what I named them and then take a guess at what you are looking at. After years of … Continue reading
Chihuly Part Deux
By popular demand more of the Dale Chihuly Installations: So many people emailed me about the Chihuly Exhibit that I felt I had to do the second part this week so here are the rest of the installations: I loved … Continue reading
Scale, Size and Perceptual filters
I stumbled onto this book, Visual Intelligence, by Amy E. Herman, while at the library last week. It’s a new book and really interesting in the area of what people actually see. This is of course what my own art … Continue reading
Project Runway
Project Runway is one of the most creative shows on tv. If you have never seen it do yourself a favor and watch it just once and you will be hooked. It is on Lifetime tv and you can watch … Continue reading