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Apr 7, 2011, 4:03 pm
Here's another new assemblage that was recently added to our Etsy shop, In The Crystal Palace:
Kym Hepworth, Called Back (Emily Dickinson), 2011, mixed media, 10 x 23 5/8 x 3 in.
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Called Back
Just lost when I was saved!Just felt the world by by!Just girt me for the onset of eternity,When breath... Comment - Like
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Apr 7, 2011, 1:47 pm
Here's a new assemblage that was recently added to our Etsy shop, In The Crystal Palace:
Kym Hepworth / King Edgar (Edgar Allan Poe) / 2011 / mixed media / 12 1/8 x 17 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.
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excerpt from the poem The Haunted Palace:
"And all with pearl and ruby glowingWas the fair palace-door,Through... Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2011, 1:56 pm
hey fellas, Happy Friday!
Kym Hepworth, cover of scrapbook album
Kym Hepworth, page from scrapbook album of Hollywood film stars (with Gregory Peck (1916-2003) & Lauren Bacall (1924-)
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall), 1945-46, Construction, 20 1/2 x 1... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2011, 4:15 pm
Kym Hepworth, doll dress, March 29, 2011
Paula Carino and the Scurvy Merchants - Discovering Fire Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2011, 10:31 am
Kym Hepworth, doll dress, March 14, 2011
An earlier spelling of the word bead was bede, from Old English gebed, “prayer.” The Old English verb biddan meant “to pray” as well as “to ask.” By the late 14th century, the word bede/bead had attached to the objects on which the prayers were ... Comment - Like
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Mar 9, 2011, 4:26 pm
I started working on a new piece over the weekend. It's a variation on my assemblage Mary Had A Little Lamb. However, in this piece, Mary is the Virgin Mary and the lamb is Christ. Below is an inspiration for the work:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation), ... Comment - Like
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Mar 3, 2011, 12:00 pm
I'm In Love With This Idea is an exhibit of work by members of the Women's Caucus For Art of Georgia.
WCAGA members who are participating in the exhibition include:
Vicki Bethel, Patricia Bohannon, Marilynn Brandenburger, Jeannine Cook, Angie Dachs, Helen DeRamus, Sally Wansboro Eppstein, Betty... Comment - Like
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Feb 26, 2011, 12:34 pm
As you can tell from the previous post, Robin and I recently opened a new Etsy shop together. I thought I'd write a little bit about the sources of inspiration connected to the shop's name. We kicked around a few other names for the shop before choosing In The Crystal Palace. We wanted a name with ... Comment - Like
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Feb 24, 2011, 3:06 pm
"Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry
"Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy . . ."
-from Christina Rossetti's poem, The Goblin Market
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Robin Miller and I recently opened a new shop together on Etsy. In The Crystal Palace (inthecrystalpalace, if you search by sellers on ... Comment - Like
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Feb 11, 2011, 12:35 pm
each day is Valentine's Day
so why wait?
Happy Friday!
The Replacements - Kiss Me On The Bus
Paul Westerberg - Kiss Me On The Bus Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2011, 9:00 am
Happy Friday!
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and now it's time for some shameless self-promotion . . .
Kym Hepworth, detail, vintage child's hand warmer
What's that? You'll be in Statesboro, GA sometime before February 25th and you're looking for something to do that involves a Valentine's Day theme? Wow! What a coinciden... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2011, 9:37 am
Here's a little known art history secret: she's running away from zombies!
Niccolò Dell'Arca, The Lamentation (detail), c. 1485-90, Terracotta, lifesize, Sta. Maria della Vita, Bologna
(source for image: History of Art by H. W. Janson - 5th ed., revised and expanded by Anthony F. Janson, publish... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2011, 12:58 pm
The thermometer doesn't lie. I might. It's supposed to reach 70 degrees today in Savannah.
Kym Hepworth, daffodils, skeletons and zombie apocalypse!
excerpt from Zombie Apocalypse! created by Stephen Jones (entry from Maddy Wood's diary, age 13, dated Sunday, May 5):
"A thin stream of smoke rose u... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2011, 10:00 am
Kym Hepworth, daffodils day 12
Kym Hepworth, vanitas
Kym Hepworth, day after day
Badfinger - Day After Day
Kym Hepworth, detail of daffodils on day 12
Kym Hepworth, cloudy day Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2011, 2:36 pm
Robin and I are no strangers to take-out food. Thought I'd share our good fortunes with you:
fortune cookie (your dearest wish)
fortune cookie (unusually successful)
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
The Beatles - From Me to You Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2011, 9:00 am
A more organized person than myself would have started her flower series with this post:
Willem Claesz. Heda, Still Life, 1634, Oil on panel, 16 7/8 x 22 7/8 in., Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
from H. W. Janson's History of Art on Dutch Baroque still lifes:
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Jan 30, 2011, 9:00 am
On weight:
Kym Hepworth, detail, the weight of flowers
Kym Hepworth, more weight
pressed to death: Giles Cory and the Salem Witch Trials, 1692:
"Immediately after the second set of trials an event occurred that was as shocking as anything that had happened during the whole of the witch-hunt. Giles... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2011, 9:00 am
On weightlessness:
Kym Hepworth, light as a feather, stiff as a board
Sven Turck (1897-1954, Denmark), Levitation of a table, 1940-45, 22.3 x 29.5 cm., Gelatin silver print
(image source: The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult by Clément Chéroux and Andreas Fischer, et al., published by Y... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2011, 10:14 am
"The color of the flowers
has faded
while I contemplated it,
as my body
passed through the world."
- Ono no Komachi (834-880)
Kym Hepworth, detail of quilt 1
Kym Hepworth, daffodils, stripes and shadows
Kym Hepworth, detail of quilt 2
Kym Hepworth, daffodils and stars
Kym Hepworth, detail of qu... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2011, 9:00 am
Kym Hepworth, daffodils in the rain
Kym Hepworth, raindrops on yellow vase
Kym Hepworth, time
Kym Hepworth, shadows Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2011, 9:00 am
playing with complementary colors:
Kym Hepworth, daffodils with purple lights
Kym Hepworth, yellow vase with purple lights
playing with Photoshop to create a different mood:
Kym Hepworth, inferno
Kym Hepworth, fairyland
I'm not the only one who has tried to capture an image of the wee folk thr... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2011, 9:00 am
Victorian mourning card from my collection
"The art and jewelry of the Victorian era was heavily laden with images of symbolism. By understanding the symbolic meaning of various flowers, gem stones, tombstones, and other objects, we are better able to interpret the important intended messages of th... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2011, 9:00 am
Kym Hepworth, Emily Dickinson (yellow)
"Nature rarer uses yellow
Than another hue;
Saves she all of that for sunsets, -
Prodigal of blue,
Spending scarlet like a woman,
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly,
Like a lover's words."
- Emily Dickinson
Kym Hepworth, study of yellow in nature
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Jan 22, 2011, 2:18 pm
Here's something I like to think about:
Kym Hepworth, French vocabulary card: to think of, to dream of
Kym Hepworth, dictionary 1942
Ye olde Funk & Wagnalls dictionary (above) defines the word preserve as follows:
1. To keep in safety; guard or rescue from destruction, death, loss, or detriment; p... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2011, 10:00 am
Happy Friday!
Thursday 3:45 pm
Thursday 8:10 pm
Friday 9:10 am
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Botany album cover by Grace May Boyer, Newark, Ohio, June, 1901
Hoop Petticoat Daffodil - page from Grace May Boyer's Botany album, 1901
1. Poet's Narcissus 2. Daffodil 3. Narcissus - page from Grace May Boyer's Botany al... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2011, 11:34 am
If you're in the Atlanta area, looking for something to do with your big bad self - something that involves looking at art, perhaps? - well, you're in luck because an exhibition of mixed media work has recently opened at Georgia Perimeter College.
(invitation designed by Don Dougan)
Mixed Media: Te... Comment - Like
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Jan 7, 2011, 3:37 pm
Kym Hepworth, sweet Goo
Mr. Goo
told me
to tell you:
Happy Friday!
Also, he wants to know when you're planning on feeding him??? Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 2010, 6:25 pm
Below is an excerpt from the novella, A Good Marriage, by Stephen King from his collection Full Dark, No Stars:
"At some point she found herself remembering the year in early childhood when she had gone around the house looking into mirrors.
detail of 19th century fashion print
She would stand in ... Comment - Like
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Dec 17, 2010, 10:21 am
Now where were we before I rudely interrupted us by going on vacation? Oh yeah, picture frames. Robin built this one for me.
Kym Hepworth, detail of work in progress, Mary Had a Little Lamb
The Cure - Pictures of You
Kym Hepworth, pictures of Robert Smith
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Dec 14, 2010, 10:47 am
Below are photographs of the Historic District on Jekyll Island decorated for Christmas.
entrance to the Historic District with live oaks, Jekyll Island, GA
Christmas decorations at night, Historic District, Jekyll Island, GA
The blue Christmas lights on the live oaks at night were both lovely and ... Comment - Like
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Dec 3, 2010, 9:15 am
ghosts from the past - photographs of our old apartment
Kym Hepworth, fireplace, Barnard Street, Savannah
Kym Hepworth, book on windowsill, Barnard Street, Savannah
Kym Hepworth, toy in motion, Barnard Street, Savannah
Kym Hepworth, still life, Barnard Street, Savannah
Sufjan Stevens - All for Mys... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2010, 2:33 pm
Kym Hepworth, detail of work in progress, Mary Had a Little Lamb
Here's what the dress looks like on the backing board. The color of the scan is a bit off - more pink, less purple. Now Robin can build the frame, I'll get the other elements together, and then Robin will frame it for me. He'll make i... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2010, 12:21 pm
Kym Hepworth, detail of work in progress, Mary Had a Little Lamb
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2010, 8:16 pm
November News
It's that time of year again -- Robin and I have work in Small Works 2010 at the Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Small Works is an annual juried exhibition for the holiday season featuring work by SCAD students, faculty, alumni and staff. All work is priced at... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2010, 12:45 pm
a page from Mother Goose No. 2 Painting and Crayoning Book
I didn't like the proportions of the doll dress - it was a little too short, stout and stocky, so I cut the lace hem off of a doll slip . . .
doll slip
and sewed it onto the bottom of the doll dress. Aside from that? Bead, bead, bead.
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Nov 18, 2010, 4:28 pm
Kym Hepworth, detail of work in progress, Mary Had a Little Lamb
Here's a new piece I'm working on - obviously, it's very much in progress. I'm sewing a mix of opaque white, luster white, clear, and pink seed beads onto a small doll dress. I'll post more images when it's a little further along.
Unt... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2010, 6:30 pm
Kym Hepworth, angel
excerpt from the short story Another Halloween by Alison Lurie (1926-):
"Anyhow, it got to be another Halloween . . . It was an unpleasant night: cold and wet, with rain leaking down through the bare trees, and drifts of greenish-grey fog rising from the pavement . . .
When we ... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2010, 9:47 am
"The element of perversity in Khnopff's work is very marked - and has one strange characteristic of its own, in that the feminine types he used in his compositions all seem to be based upon his sister, whose beauty obsessed him. Dumont-Wilden gives an eloquent description of the kind of emotion Khno... Comment - Like
I'm a mixed media beadwork artist from Savannah, GA and Hesitation Waltz is my personal art blog. My work is inspired by mourning art, Dark Romanticism and Gothic literature and explores the themes of love, loss and grief.
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