Weekly 5 is a round-up the past week’s creative news, discoveries, and happenings in my world!
Best thing that happened in my world this week:
They say “April showers bring May flowers” – and it seems like we got a bit of an early start. We’ve been gifted a little more rain here in the desert. Our plants love it. One of my favorites so far this season is the trumpet-like flowers blooming on the motorcycle frame in our backyard. The vine has been a work-in-progress for the last five years. Last year was dry and it didn’t do so well, but this year it’s coming back around!
The mouth-watering, muted magic of Olive
From Introvert Drawing Club on Substack
If you flip through a photo album from the 70s, you’ll find the color olive gracing the glassware, light fixtures, patterns, and shag carpets. Punchier, more saturated colors shine more brightly when olive is there working its muted magic.
Artist discovery: Val Kilmer (1959-2025)
Val Kilmer’s abstract series is born from the perspective that matter isn’t matter, it’s energy. And energy is viewable or instigated by thought or perception according to modern physics. This metaphysical reality stretches so far beyond physical reality that images help satisfy our inability to grasp the infinite. The abstract icons with their depth of layers and infinite shoreline edges reference the fractal notion of zooming/falling infinitely into the image. Kilmer notes the “black-hole” nature of these pieces. They are windows into another world.
©Val Kilmer
Tia Keobounpheng’s Vibrating Textile Geometries Merge Modernism and Sámi Lineage
From COLASSAL
On wood panels, Keobounpheng weaves colorful threads to create precise geometries in vibrating color. She says, “My exploration into geometry coincided with learning that in my known familial histories, there was a suppressed Sámi lineage through my great-grandmother’s line, thereby completely changing the narrative of our Finnish heritage.”
©Tia Keobounpheng
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