This is the art of designing in multidimensional space – each layer clearly had to be meticulously designed on its own before being spliced together, else they wouldn’t work together so harmoniously. So many things could (and probably did) go wrong; I’d like to see the original models to see what changes were made between the conceptual models and the final piece, but they probably no longer exist.
Month: December 2019
Thursday
This isn’t your typical Tiffany glass vase; it’s not as schooled and elegant, the lines aren’t as crisp and clear, but you can definitely tell it’s from Tiffany as opposed to anyone else. It just has that panache.
Wednesday
This ring is tiny. Not just small, tiny. It’s like pinky ring sized for me, so it’s hella wee, like a standard size 5.5. You would think this wouldn’t be a pinky ring for Akhenaten, though, so he probably wasn’t the biggest guy to start with.
Tuesday
It’s not so difficult to believe that things like pens and inkpots haven’t changed at all over the millenia.
Monday
Nice to know that the bureaucratic way of life hasn’t changed in thousands of years and we have the records to prove it. Also nice to know that handwriting standards haven’t slipped, either… and that cursive is still elusive in most written languages.
Sunday
A lot has changed in St. Louis over the years, including urbanization, city blight, gentrification, etc., and that began as early as 1888 in some parts of the city. This painting embraces a kind of optimism about the pre-WWII industrial expansion that was going on in parts of the city and shows it off in bright colors and flashy ways that belies the truth of how the sprawl actually became more of a problem than a solution.