Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
I cheated you out of art on Friday so today I take the first step towards making that up to you. This weekend we attended Kansas City’s 75th annual Plaza Art Fair. This is always an enjoyable and inspiring fair and this weekend’s was not a disappointment. In addition to the most perfect weather imaginable for an outdoor fair, there was a great deal of art to tempt the eye. I will share some of these throughout the next week, or weeks. Today I bring you the art of Mark Orr.
Very little is revealed about the person who is Miel-Margarita Paredes on her website, but one thing is obvious, she has quite the talent in metalwork.
Calling forth images of the Nautilus in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the octopus teapot was all it took to have me sold on her work.
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was – but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.
– Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
This is a Friday Favorites that has been on the back burner for some time and since this past week has been almost entirely about books I decided it was the perfect opportunity to combine the art of literature, the art of photography, and the art of the female form into this week’s Friday Favorite.
Thank God its Friday! And that means it is time for yours truly to share another artists’ work that fills me with Thrills!Chills! and Excitement! It is positively Phantasmagorical! It is the work of Ryan Heshka.
