Dream Catch Me
acrylic, gouache and vinyl on canvas
198 x 198 cm
Dream Catch Me 2
acrylic and pen on canvas
170 x 150 cm
By Kirra Jamison. Check out her owls, foxes, and other good things. {She's been bouncing around the web recently - no pun intended - but I think I first saw her in the Lady Lavona's Cabinet of Curiosities}
Meanwhile, Victoria over at sfgirlbybay had a guest post by Kelly of Halcyon Days (and y. a. studios) which features the above lamp (and its vintage showgirl inspiration). If we follow the link to Halcyon Days, we find some more webs-with-feather light fixtures, by Dutch artist Jennifer Tee {via all the mountains}:
Falling Feathers
Complex Interiors, Trance-lucent Concrete
She's also got suspended crystals and birds in South of the Border (an allusion to Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun.
Of these, only Kirra Jamison explicitly cites the Ojibwe dreamcatcher, but that is what these say to me. Interestingly, that leads back to the God's Eye. These things seem to be wandering the collective unconscious.
These illustrations:
are by Yasmine Surovec of a print a day.
There are even dreamcatcher dresses in Ann-Sophie Back's autumn-winter '09 collection, 'Ann-Sofie Back burns in hell' (inspired by American stereotypes and horror flicks).
yes its quite surprising isn't it when you come across something so similar to what you have just finished working on. We even joked that it had a bit of dream catcher qualities before it was fully put together.
ReplyDeleteI find it fascinating that ideas like these float in the ether in our collective unconscious. Also, that with an entirely different inspiration, you came up with some similar elements.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment! It's a beautiful fixture.