Wondering if She Still Has Feelings - The Sequel
A little over a year ago, I wrote about a love-at-first-sight encounter with a piece called "Wondering If She Still Has Feelings" (pictured above) by local artist Bridget Sue Lambert. After that, Bridget and I started chatting online, and sensing the depth of my ardor, I think, she ended up offering me a discount on said piece. It now sits proudly in my foyer, waiting for me to figure out where in my home it ultimately belongs. I am as riveted as I was on the day we first met. Every time I look at it, my heart soars a little bit.
When have you finally gotten a piece of art you longed for?
posted by Amanda @ 12:12 PM
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I first saw the work of Jennifer Sanchez a few years ago on www.beholder-art.com, and fell in love immediately. It is, quite literally, eye candy, or rather, art candy. It made me happy with its colorful swirliness. But being a full-time grad student, I just didn't have $1000 to spend on art or anything else. I forgot all about her. Later, on a tip from a friend, I signed up for a feed from www.20x200.com, a site with the tagline "Great art $20. Really." A few months later, a fantastic Jennifer Sanchez print popped up and I recognized her work right away. I grabbed the last of the mid-size prints in the nick of time. When it arrived, I ripped open the package and almost sobbed. It hadn't struck me until then how much this particular print reminded me of the giant "Birth of a Line" macaroni sculpture I did in my first year of architecture school.I had flunked out, couldn't take the intensity, pretentiousness, and late nights. But for years afterward I lugged the macaroni sculpture from apartment to apartment. With each move, a few more pieces broke off. Once my cat peed on it. But I couldn't let it go, this symbol of my dream deferred. When it was infested by grain pests, I finally tossed it, not without a good deal of heartbreak. But here it was again. It had come back to me, my 3-dimensional pasta sculpture, reborn in 2-dimensional form. The hundreds of pieces of penne, bucatini, mostaccioli, and fusilli transformed into a brightly-colored swirly vortex, refusing to let me go.
There's a store in Albuquerque, NM (where my sister lives) that specializes in Mexican folk art. I fell in love with alebrijes, fantastical creatures sculpted from paper mache and painted in bright colors. A particularly beautiful (and enormous) alebrije stands in Oyamel restaurant's window at 7th and D NW. I've collected three sculptures, each about a foot tall, all by the same artist. They have wings, fins, hooves, horns, daggar-like teeth, a single eye, or multiple eyes...and they make me very happy.
Fell in love with Camille Rose Garcia and bought this piece, Arctic Cavern Hideaway:
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424917884/117794/camille-rose-garcia-arctic-cave-hideaway.html
I knew she was my sister when I learned her influences were Walt Disney, Philip K. Dick and punk rock. Her style also influenced my latest tattoo.
A truly divine question.
I wold love to answer on traditional artwork, but the one that came to mind is about wearable art.
The "longed-for" comes not from the time between first seeing it and then possessing it, but rather, an expression of the hidden fashion critic and female finally finding a style to match her taste after many years away from a feminine wardrobe.
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A little over ten years ago: A short, shine-finish, dark red, cherry blossom patterned, mandarin collar shift dress with matching fabric buttons by XOXO from a new, upscale clothing store on The Commons in Ithaca, NY... a place where "upscale" and "Generation X" didn't go together.
This enviro-tomboy, who admits to wearing oversized EMS t-shirts with "Evolution of water travel" t-sirts in those days, fell in love. Hunted many shops before finding the perfect velvet shoes. It turned into a semi-formal outfit like no other at my small high school.
Still love the dress. Wore it during an "Asian" party on my patio last year.
"wold" = would
These stories are wonderful - thank you all so much for sharing!
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