Petra Collins

Kiki Smith: 'Constellation' at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (1996)

Tea Casket

ca. 1770

Containing two canisters for tea (green and black) and a larger one for sugar, this chest could be locked to secure its valuable contents; both tea and sugar were expensive commodities during the eighteenth century. The polychrome pastoral scenes and Italianate landscapes, combined with Rococo-style gilding against a pink ground, create an opulent effect.

A man who would come here of his own free will. A man who has come here with the power of a king by representing the law. A man who would come here as a virgin… A man who has come here as a fool! THE WICKER MAN | 1973

a glass frog's underside

portraits of pat

I’m going to make a new font called Times New Bastard

Designed in the late 1940s by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, Case Study House #9 was built in the Pacific Palisades next door to the Eames House on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The interiors of the steel-frame house featured concrete flooring, wood-paneled ceilings, and multiple levels in an open floor plan. The house was commissioned by John Entenza, the editor of California Arts and Architecture Magazine, the publication that sponsored the multi-year Case Study Houses project. (Photo: Julius Shulman, 1950; © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) Photo restoration by Modernist Collection.