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Black and White...

...and a bit in between.

Do you have this in your collection?

It just went on my wishlist.

Lovely!

P.S. Want to create your own wishlist?

Go {here} to create a universal wishlist (it allows you to add items from any website.)

Once you have the wishlist feature in place, visit the emporium and look for your list to appear on the bottom right of the page. I use it not only as my "wishlist" for gifts I'd like to receive, but just as an organizational tool to keep track of items I like and may buy for myself or the house or gifts for others.

all images above via:

BLACK & WHITE

(and a bit in between)

by Celerie Kemble

Visit the emporium to order this book or to browse my picks for home, garden and more:

enter

linen & lavender

visit our new site:

www.linenlavenderlife.com

Is this what we might call...

...the skull-inary arts? (!)

Artist's Statement:

{Currently, I use ceramics as my material in my method of expression, incorporating various decorative styles, patterns, and symbolic forms as my principal axis in creating my works. The decorative styles and forms I allude to and incorporate in my works each contain a story based on historical backgrounds and ideas, myths, and allegories.　Their existence in the present age makes us feel many things,; adoration, some sort of romantic emotions, a sense of unfruitfulness and languor from their excessiveness and vulgarity.And on the other hand, they make us feel tranquility and awe that can almost be described as religious, as well as an image as an object of worship.By citing such images, I feel I am able to express an - atmosphere- that is a part of the complex world in this age.In fact, the several decorative styles and forms I cite simultaneously hold divine and vulgar meaning in the present age, having an irrational quality that contradict each other, which I feel express an important aspect in the contemporary age in which we live.Also, the technique of ceramics has a tradition that has been a part of the history of decoration over a long time, and I feel the delicateness and fragile tension of the substantial material well express my concept. -Katsuyo Aoki}

Visit:

Katsuyo Aoki

to view other extraordinary works by the artist.

Amazing!

visit our new site:

www.linenlavenderlife.com

Linen, naturally.

Love the simple, casual design of this ottoman cover. Natural linen is a favorite of mine (surprise, surprise) and if there is a white slipcover somewhere in the mix, all the better. I never, ever tire of the combination. It is always fresh and appealing to me. (Of course, gorgeous floor-to-ceiling stone as a backdrop doesn't hurt either!)