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written by Jenny Brown on jennybrownart.com
in search of sun cups at night
We spent a lot of time debating whether or not the blackened landscape was beautiful or horrific. My opinion kept changing daily. I had gotten the idea to put my bright blue wool socks on one morning… I thought they might cheer me and everyone else up, but I was wrong. Even in times like these, quick fixes are still quick fixes, and I never wore them again. I think everybody knew there was nothing to be done but to take stock of our new surroundings and accept them. Nobody really wanted to be there, what choice did we have?

Exhausted, we spent long days dusting snow off the frozen ground and trying to dig holes in it. I was put in charge of maintaining an abandoned free-standing chimney that must have been attached to a house at one time. One day when I was wading through the bramble that had grown around it, I decided to stick my hands in the opening of the chimney to see what I could find… I pulled out a curious collection of items: a frozen and dried lime, a dirty sponge, some nails, a hairbrush. I wasn’t sure what to do with them or why they were there… I had hoped for something simple… a bundle of photographs, maybe a book? I spent long hours lining the objects up on the ground in different orders and looking at them to try and figure out how they fit together.

Night time was spent making escape plans, though we all admitted our new world was almost beautiful in the dark… the sky was always starless and velvety, and the remnants of the forest became a charming menagerie of tunnels and hiding places. Fact was nothing but fiction in these moments and we sometimes were hesitant to sleep because we didn’t want to miss looking at our surroundings in the night light. It was the only time I felt calm and hopeful. As the sun rose each day, we found ourselves silently wishing that all that imagined beauty from the night would really be before us.

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I stumbled upon Melissa Kretschmer's work on booooooom.com.  For those of you looking for some new inspiration, booooooom.com is fantastic for modern artists.  They are always updating on their website daily.  Now Melissa here, in her Plane Series, gave me a tremendous sense of calm.  Having a very stressful day, coming across her work was an amazing treat.  I love her movement here, the black boxes are obvious the first focal point of moment but it's not overbearing, we notice that are eyes are taking us somewhere however, the yellow boxes and stalling us from moving outside of the pieces. 

This piece here the black bars keep you here keeps you centered, while the white lines leads you out.  I love how energetic this one is to me.

This one, the black bars keeps you trapped, but in a peaceful way.  I don't know much about abstract art, I only took one class o it so far but from what I learn it's more about how you feel in each painting, it doesn't matter what it is about because everyone can feel something different.

_by Jonah Samson www.coolhunting.com
Jessica Eaton's series, "Cubes for Albers and LeWitt" may be highly technical and conceptual, but the end result is dizzyingly beautiful. Based on Joseph Albers' focus on the "discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect," Eaton's images add "multiple exposures and colored lights" to plain, monochromatic cubes to create enchanting graphics.

The photographer starts with a set of cubes painted only white, black and gray, then shoots them under red, green and blue gels to capture the vibrant final pictures. The reflective value of the cubes controls levels of light and dark, while the layering of the primary colors creates a broad range of hues. One may be shocked to realize that the resulting images, made using only Eaton's 4x5 camera, have not been digitally manipulated.

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Eaton's work recently appeared on the cover of Art News magazine in "The New Photography," and she is currently showing at the FOAM museum's "Talent 2011" show, at the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal for the 2011 Quebéc Triennial, and at Higher Pictures in New York.