Yes, I've been away. But only away from my computer. I wish I had been somewhere fun gathering beautiful photographs or making art, but instead I've been cleaning my attic for the last 6 days. Oh my goodness. I never thought I had that much stuff. And it's been a resolution to get this job done since January of 2011. Impending guests got me motivated. You see I really do have to offer more than that scruffy (sort of) finished attic room to the unlucky guest who draws the short straw. So I pitched in and got rid of things, organized things and cleaned things. Now please understand that my house in OLD. I was probably cleaning up 200 year old dust. My husband is now calling me "the attic rat" because of my intrepid exploits crawling into corners where no woman should go. I even found 4 rolls of wallpaper wrapped in a newspaper from 1907! But it is done! And done well. And now I can offer a very nice, fresh room to that second guest. Yay!
The above work is by Kumi Obata, a Japanese illustrator. These are etchings, and I love their simplicity and graphic beauty. If you would like to see more of her work, go over here.
i would happily join you in helping to clean the attic. sounds like quite an adventure. full of wonderful discoveries for sure.thank you for introducing us to this amazing artist. best wishes, lari.
ReplyDeleteLari, I bet you have amazing treasures that were hiding in your attic. I would have backed my car happily into your drive and helped you clean :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this amazing artist, I love the sparseness of the imagery.
Boy, that would have made attic cleaning much easier with the two of you there to help...and take stuff away!
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