The Unique Smell Of SweetGrass Is Closer

Let's Talk LowCountry

The smell of South Carolina Low-Country Sweetgrass is in the air. It's not strong but it's there. 

Like the Gullah Culture it puts a smile on your face. There is something good about having a hand-weaved Sweet-rass basket in the house and an original art work on the wall.

The SweetGrass Culture Arts Festival

 this year will be on

 June 2nd in Mt. Pleasant (Charleston)

under the historic Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge.

 Patriots Point Memorial Water Park will be filled with sweet grass baskets, fine art and almost any type craft you can think of. 

My family can not enter the studio during the whole month of May. It is too pack with energy, canvases and other art work. 

If you love art place this date on your calendar or better yet make it a weekend and enjoy the friendly city. 

Finding the my ladies in their big hats shouldn't be too hard. 

There might even be a gift for you if you are there early.

$3 Billion in Art Sold iN Two Weeks

 Christie's auction house chalked up $1.79 billion in sales after spreading the site's flagship may sales event across two weeks for the first time. 

Sotheby's, an art dealer that is also British-founded, sold $859 million in art, including fetching $157.2 million for a Modigliani nude, in the most expensive individual piece purchase of the season.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' 

sets a record with his $21.1 million purchase of this piece, titled 'Past Times' by Kerry James Marshall

Okras And Its Love Of It

Okra has a long history in the South. There is no Gumbo with out it. It is also breaded and fired. And, there is even a Festival in Irmo, South Carolina that features it as the main attraction. It's called the Okra Strut. However, you ask anyone in the west or North and you may get a weird look back.

Okra Strutt

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A great book to discover some of the South



No Better Way ...

The World Is A Canvas

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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. Oscar Wilde

Pablo Picasso Million Dollar Mishaps

Picasso’s “Le Rêve” was sold at a Christie’s auction in 1997. In 2006,

the casino mogul Steve Wynn accidentally put his elbow through the canvas. Credit Mike Segar/Reuters

 

For the second time a multi-million dollar master piece has been damaged. The first freak accident came when Steve Winn (Casino owner in Vegas) put his elbow through "LeReive."

 

 This second mishap is not described ("Le Marin") but it had to be taken off the auction block to be repaired before any sale.

 

 

Pablo Picasso’s 1943 painting “Le Marin” at a Christie’s preview in Hong Kong in March.

 It was damaged on Friday at a presale exhibition. CreditAlex Hofford/EPA, via Shutterstock

Front Steps

Front Steps

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In the South, the front porch and steps are used to talk, give advice and just about any other form of communication with the family. You could always tell when the person speaking has really messed up. They were usually the only on talking. The rest of the attendees either said nothing or the dreadful ...

ummmhuh



Bringing The Ceiling Down

Ariana Grande 

brings the ceiling down 

to wear. The Sistine Chapel ceiling never looked better.

Making fashion into a master piece at the

 Met Gala 2018

 

 

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling is

painted by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Now that we are here...

click the picture above to find out 

Seven things you may not know about the Sistine Chapel.

Energy Trail

 

 

Energy Trail

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Leave a trail of

Love and Positive Energy

where ever you go. 

Stand in Kaos

Stand

in kaos

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A Sunglasses Morning

A Sunglasses Morning

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Marsh Dancer

Marsh Dancer 

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