Friday Challenge: Heart

Welcome to the Serendipity Treasury Challenge!
The Friday Challenge is "Heart."
We encourage you to make treasuries that somehow employs the term heart; be as literal or figurative or off kilter or conceptual as you want to be.
If you want to find items with the tag "heart" — wonderful! If you want to employ an adage like "from the heart" — go for it! Just somehow employ "heart" in your treasury :)

I hope you choose to participate!
And if you do participate, then please post a link to your treasury as a comment on this blog : )

Happy curating!

by Cassandra Kiss:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c652db43c4f8eefffbba50d 

by Sarah Knight
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6532d68bf46d91a65b0b1e

by pottery123
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6591c18bf46d91959c1d1e

by Frannie's Heart
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c67025737e96d914fd95d10

16 February 2009

etsy:
“calla lilies & tree swallows” by Sarah Knight, etsy seller sarahkdesigns

This piece is a print of a digital collage. The composition consists of a combination of birds, flowers, trees, and a background which varies in color to suggest the elements of sky and ground. The composition is an abstract landscape. It is a landscape based on the use of it’s canonical images: flowers, trees, ground, sky. However, it is abstract in it’s presentation. It is a collage, and it’s trees are not of the same media and therefore visual presentation as either the birds, the flowers, or the sky and ground. The separate parts retain their separate identities as things and as parts created in a medium. And yet the image is cohesive. The image also has an active composition based on the juxtaposition of its separate parts. The composition of the image is primarily dictated by the trees, they are the visual element that contrasts dominantly against everything else in the image in terms of color contrast and in terms of linear structure. But they are not rendered to create a single focal point; nor are they juxtaposed with any of the other visual elements for the creation of a single focal point. They meander throughout the composition, and therefore create activity throughout the composition. Where as the birds are all present in the top half of the image and the flowers are all present in the bottom half of the image; this dictates a traditional landscape totem. In both cases, the tree swallows and calla lilies are present horizontally across the entire plane of the image; in other words they are active across the entire scope of the composition. The plane of varying colors that represents the background also varies in a from top to bottom. The color differentiates between reds and purples, to a light pink which blends into a sage green; lending the impression of a dawn or dusk sky over a green ground. This vertical compositional technique works in concert with the birds and flowers, from a point of color contrast and variance in shade: the top half of the picture is darker and more saturated in color than the bottom half of the picture.
available at:
sarahkdesigns: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5531130

song:
“It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)” by the Rolling Stones from the album It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

artist: Hannah Höch
Johanne Höch (November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978) was a German artist, best known as a Dadaist for her works of collage. She studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin. For a brief period she worked for Ullstein Verlang. She joined the Berlin Dada movement in 1919 through her relationship with Rauol Hausmann. Höch was known to be bisexual and a feminist, the latter of which was often expressed in her photo collages, for which she is best known. But as a Dadaist she was not simply a feminist, she was an iconoclast opposed to propaganda of all scales; from Nazism to advertising campaigns targeted at women. She is probably best known for her work “Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.”

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Introduction to the Plasticity of Happiness

Plasticity is defined as: the quality or state of being plastic; esp : capacity for being molded or altered. With plastic being defined as: formative, creative.

Happiness is defined as: a state of well-being and contentment.

This blog will be a demonstration of the plasticity of happiness. A place where I can wax ecstatic about the things in this world that delight and entertain me; and hopefully you too.

Each week a new entry will be posted. Each entry will highlight fours points of interest:
a work of art on etsy
a song
a famous artist
and
a surprise

I hope you come back for the experience, and I hope you experience some serendipity. And may your happiness be plastic.