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Filed under: Atlanta, Flowers Tagged: Ansley Park, Atlanta, Azaleas, Chihuahua, Dogwood, Flowers, Gardens, Nature, Photography, Trees ]]> http://katiwompus.com/2012/03/28/2202/feed/ 1 jeffstylesme IMG_9926 IMG_9934 IMG_9858 IMG_9850 IMG_9736 IMG_9799 IMG_9818 IMG_9769 IMG_9954 http://katiwompus.com/2012/02/29/2144/ http://katiwompus.com/2012/02/29/2144/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:31:29 +0000 katiwompus http://katiwompus.com/?p=2144 ]]> KAWS: DOWN TIME – High Museum of Art – Atlanta

On February 16th I went to the opening of the exhibition KAWS: DOWN TIME at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. It was a beautiful opening of work by the artist Brian Donnelly, more commonly known as KAWS. Brian is a Brooklyn based artist whose work encompasses a diverse variety of media from painting and sculpture, to editioned toys and other objects often produced in collaboration with designers and other artists. The exhibition was curated by my partner Michael Rooks, the Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High.

KAWS  ”COMPANION PASSING THROUGH” on the Sifly Piazza.

“THE NATURE OF NEED” in the Margaretta Taylor Lobby of the Wieland Family Pavilion.

KAWS: DOWN TIME – the opening on February 16th.

Brian signed books, photos, objects and various ephemera for the many fans and visitors who attended. A conversation between the artist and curator took place in the Alliance Theatre prior to the exhibition’s opening.

 From left to right,  COMPANION, (FIVE YEARS LATER) COMPANION, (ORIGINAL FAKE) COMPANION.

“GLASS SMILE”

A view from the skyway of the Renzo Piano designed Wieland Family Pavilion at the High.

“CHUM“  and  ”GONE AND BEYOND”

“CHUM”

KAWS: DOWN TIME  in the Skyway Galleries

“COMPANION PASSING THROUGH”  on the Sifly Piazza.

 ”SILENT CITY”  in the Robinson Atrium.

KAWS: DOWN TIME – High Museum of Art – Atlanta

This morning I was clicking through photos on my computer, while attempting to organize the seven thousand pictures stored in there. As I was plowing through those images, I came across some of the photos I’ve taken in the rain forest in Costa Rica and I thought I would post some of them here.

These are all pictures of reptiles I find in the jungle, or on the porch at night, around the lights that are swarming with insects like the ones from this earlier post? Sometimes they’re  in the kitchen in the afternoon, or on the highway.

 Usually I take a walk in the late afternoon when the jungle is quiet and the foliage still, just before the birds start their pre-sundown singing and feeding. I like that time of day, after a nap and a few hours in the hammock with a book. It looks dark in most of these pictures, but not many of them are really taken at night, except the boa which was on my friend Helen’s chicken house at Suital Lodge where I have stayed many nights.

 Anyway, here they are.

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Fer de Lance – Suital Lodge – 5.3.8

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Suital Lodge – 5.2.8

Suital Lodge – 5.2.8

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Suital Lodge – 5.8.8

Helen Scharli – Suital Lodge – 5.8.8

Suital Lodge – 5.8.8

Rincon – 1.24.8

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Rio Tárcoles – 4.5.11

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The following five posts consist of a few of the things I saw in Miami at Art|Basel|Miami Beach. 

Jack Whitten

Haegue Yang – paper collage, various envelope security patterns.

 Haegue Yang – Detail

Barnaby Furnas

Barnaby Furnas – Detail

Barnaby Furnas

Chris Johanson

Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse – Detail from another painting.

Katharina Grosse

Barry McGee

Barry McGee

Barry McGee

Wim Delvoye

Detail

Aaron Curry

Franz Ackermann

Filed under: Art Tagged: Aaron Curry, Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Barry McGee, Franz Ackermann, Painting, Sculpture, Wim Delvoye ]]> http://katiwompus.com/2011/12/07/1454/feed/ 0 jeffstylesme IMG_7819 IMG_7491 IMG_7823 IMG_7791 IMG_7792 IMG_7766 IMG_7871 http://katiwompus.com/2011/12/07/1424/ http://katiwompus.com/2011/12/07/1424/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:42:22 +0000 katiwompus http://katiwompus.wordpress.com/?p=1424 ]]> Art|Basel|Miami Beach – 11.29 – 12.3.11

Tobias Rehberger

Kees Goudzwaard  - oil on canvas.

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Kees Goudzwaard – oil on canvas.

Kees Goudzwaard – oil on canvas.

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Ricky Swallow – patinated bronze.

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Ugo Rondinone – bronze cast, lead.

RH Quaytman – oil, silkscreen, ink and gesso on wood.

This a collection of photos I made in Costa Rica over the last few years. They were photographed usually in the night, sometimes in the day, with a variety of different light sources, from flashlights to natural light. At times I am kneeling on the ground, leaning the camera on a wall in the rain, or  standing on a ladder on the kitchen steps about twelve or fourteen feet up, swatting at the thousands of insects that are swarming around the porch light and my head. These creatures are often moving, which makes it difficult to get a good shot, but I keep trying anyway. You can sort of tell how big they are by the size of the wood grain that they are resting on, but more often than not they are quite small.

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One morning I found a small mantis on the porch.  It was about 2 inches long. We had another big one that would have measured 8 or 9 inches, but I couldn’t get close enough for a video. I love how it turns it’s head while it’s looking at me, making sure I don’t get too close, all the while doing that little dance. (I think they are actually trying to imitate a leaf or twig that’s being gently blown around by the wind?)

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Here’s a video of him doing his dance.

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This cicada is about one quarter of an inch long.

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This butterfly I have never seen before or since.

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This tarantula was living in the kitchen when they were doing the construction. It was about 4 inches in diameter, but very well behaved

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Just amazing.

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Yikes!

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Nice gold trim on this one.

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Sometimes they are even beautiful in death. {Click on the photo for a closer look.}

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This is a moth, not a butterfly. I got up in the night to an earthquake and found it on the railing outside the cabin when I ran outside. It was only about an inch and a half across.

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Sooo not what I like to see on the *%$#*^!$* wall in the middle of the night.

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This walking stick was about 10 inches long with great camo.

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Those are big rhinoceros beetles with my friend Céline. She found them in the forest.

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This was quite a large walking stick, maybe eight or so inches in length.

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The moth below was about three quarters of an inch across. It looks like a cross between a stealth bomber and a leaf.

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Don’t ever touch one of these, you will be so sorry.

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This grasshopper was about 6 inches long, the one below was much smaller. I love the holes in it’s knees and it’s green socks.

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I don’t know what this insect is, but he was on the wall of the kitchen in the morning when I went to make coffee. It’s always interesting to see what insects remain on the wall under the porch light in the morning after the sun comes up.

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No clue what these things are, but they’re very small.

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This moth is about three quarters of an inch long and really beautiful. I must have swept hundreds of them out  the door of the cabin for years until I realized they are actually insects and not leaves. They are perfectly camouflaged, down to the little holes on the back of the wings, the stem on the top in the front, and I love how the wings overlap in a sort of asymmetrical way.

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I don’t even want to talk about this one. It was on the wall of the cabin in the morning also, but it wasn’t under the porch light – they’re not attracted to light. They come out in the dark usually, to creep around and look for something to eat.

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This insect was on the side of the cabina one night after dinner. I have no idea what it is, but I think it’s supposed to look like a piece of leaf that was chewed off of a plant by a leaf cutter ant. It is exactly the same shape – must have been around one half of an inch long – as those pieces of leaves often are when you see them going across the ground, being carted away by the ants.

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This is a very little bug.

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