Posts tagged research.
Today I took lots & lots of photos at the Lincoln Park Conservatory for an upcoming flower study. It was such an amazing retreat from Chicago’s gray skies & cold winds.
Found this in an old notebook today. The structure inside the wing in so crazy and small, I can’t wait to draw it HUGE.
I’m nearly through Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” and decided to pause a moment to visit the wikipedia page on ‘Time’… which subsequently led to about 30 tabs of related tangents.
MY MIND IS CAVING IN ON ITSELF.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TIME.
THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO.
Ever since I saw this exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago, I’ve been obsessed with the typography of the 1925 leaflet. Until yesterday when I came across a little book labeled “The Moon”, I had no idea there was a whole series of similarly laid out leaflets of other 1920’s Field Museum exhibits. I don’t know why I find them so attractive, but I kind of wish every book I put out looked like them!
I read the most amazing book today, Be Here Now by Ram Dass.
On a whim, or maybe not at all on a whim, I picked up this book at Powell’s Books yesterday and started flipping through it. Regrettably, I had really only purchased it for the illustrations. Scrawled across each page are sometimes beautiful, sometimes profound sketches drawn from the text. At the time, I had no idea how intensely relevant the words would be to me.
Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, published this book with the Lama Foundation after a life-changing stay in India. Years before, he was dismissed from teaching psychology at Harvard University for his experimentation with human consciousness… and LSD.
The book, Be Here Now, is an introduction to moving towards enlightenment, clearly articulating the thoughts of those who find themselves questioning the drama of Life.
I’ve started collecting information for my next project. Everything is in the beginning stages right now, though I know it will focus on the relation between solar influences and life on Earth. I’ll post more as it comes along!
