is that heart still beating?

A Blackman Cruz's heart, table light by Mangi, silk rug by ABC and sofa Cipria by the Campana Brothers

They Say Know Thyself

give me a hint
"odipus complex, borderline multiple personality disorder, PTSD, hyper focus ADD, extrovert-dominant/promotor, highly addictive personality type, otherwise perfectly normal"
SWEET

I Say ESCAPE From Yourself

The Giola lagoon in Greece
OMG, looks like he's swimming for his life!

Ari Van Riet X-Rays

RUN BABY RUN....Oh no, straight toward the street!!

SOLARIS

escape in great literature

I don't really know why I spent most of last year's falling-asleep listening to Solaris narrated by Alessandro Juliani. After all his American accent troubles me. Our hero is a Russian astronaut sent by the USSR, not one of those NASA officials who always sound like everything is under control. Nothing is under control in Solaris as it is the story of a planet out of control. You see, Solaris knows how to play the human mind but how and why? Kevin's mission was to find out, only to emotionally succumb to the planetary, plasmatic mermaid at landing.

But when I think about it more deeply, why not an American? Is Solaris not in part, the story of pragmatism's defeat? Human's pragmatism!

I adore seeing the original movie by Tarkovsky and loved reading and having the book read to me. Needless to say, Lem's deeply evocative and poetic writing will blow you away.

Hotel Grotta Palazzese Bari, Italy

do yourself a favor and check out this site www.topdreamer.com
escape in extraordinary travels

Giancarlo Wood and LED Outdoor Seats

escape in awesome design
Think of a soft evening on Japanese patio, those strewn about like big rocks around a vaporing water source...

Dogs

as a spotted hyena
escape in the narcissistic love of them

Cecil at Fort Hunt Park near Mount Vernon, Virgina

Talking about little devils

I don't know about yours but I can honestly tell you that I do not have the best of dogs. She nips my house guests and is jealous like a cat.

I found mine roaming by the Chesapeake Bay in Cecil County, Maryland bloodied and starving. I named her Cecil after Maryland's Cecil Cornelius Calvert Baron of Baltimore III and the Cecil Body Shop across the field :-)

Almost a dream come true: Small Erected ears, Big wide paws with a fine drawn black face smothered in cream eye make-up. She runs fast and heavy with her powerful short legs and dives in the Potomac river for rocks like an otter thanks to an XX-large chest...if she sees a muddy puddle, she's in it. a super tiny wolf to scare the bad spirits away. Her eyes fire dark red-yellow glares. She looks like an animal who could climb a tree. She happens to be a dwarf, Norwegian Elkhound with some GS ancestry.


I love my little wet delinquent.








by the way notice the fantastic colored wall paper in the hallway from Farrow and Ball, England.

Alejandro Mila

escape in heroism

Dorothee Mainka's Homelesness Chair

escape in abandonment

Sofa's Cipria and Papposu from the Campana Brothers for Edra

escape for the raw fun of it

Bear Chair by AniaKanicka

escape BaCk in ChildHOoD

Gentlemen au Bacongo by Daniele Tamagni

pick this one up from wewaistetime.com an other downright fantastic blog

Escape in Fashion

Silk Rug Ethos by ABC

escape in stern religiosity

Bejamin Rollins Caldwell Chair

escape one kind of prison just to find yourself locked up in other

Henry Darger's Warfare

escapefromthem ALL

A few words on one of my favorite artist and a documentary about him: Henri Darger and the Realms of the Unreal.
Follow this link to read more about a great documentary on one of the most extraordinary outsider artist of the 20th century. It's called "The Realms of the Unreal" by Jessica Yu. The documentary, often narrated by children, brilliantly animates his spellbinding works of art.
Henry Darger is revealed as the men, we all deeply suspected that he was. A men, deeply troubled by a Dickensien childhood spent as an orphan in asylums for the mad. It's heart breaking but marvelous to see him succesfully escape in the world of pure ART.
The film doesn't linger on Darger's most disturbing imagery. And because of this, I would go as far as to suggest that "The Realms of the Unreal" would be highly appropriate for a young teenager, as an introduction to the many forbidding concepts that underpin most avant-garde art.
Hey, if they read you Grimm's Bleubeard as a child than you know what I mean...After all Darger's heroines "the Vivianes" are victorious, mostly....
F.Y.I. the site abduzeedo.com is amazing...check it out!
http://abduzeedo.com/henry-darger-art-any-mea

Fortuny: Glycine Papiro Tapa Peruviar

Escape in Uber Wealth every room of your palace upholstered in Fortuny fabrics....yards and yards of the stuff at $600.00 the tiny yard.

If you don't know who Fortuny is or what this is all about, I'd suggest visiting the website fortuny.com.




But in a few words, Mariano Fortuny was a Spanish painter and a fashion designer who lived and worked at the onset of the 20th century. A time when the world was aflamed with new ideas about art and design as it drew closer to civilizations that had been unaccessible to it, previously. Tribal art becomes the rage but also a desire to revisit the grandeurs of Europe's past. Things fell apart quickly with the destruction that was brought upon Europe by the First World War but for a time European artists shinned very brightly, in deed.

To realize his vision Fortuny set up shop in Venice where the level of artisanry could not be rivaled. There, he created the most astounding collection of printed cotton fabrics . They are both sumptuous and quite simple. They breathe like fresh water colors and often gleam with pure gold. Their method of production is a secret!

Yomama by Wangechi Mutu

Escape in high Art......well worth it.

Lamp Big Sure by Mangi Home for jdm

you got the gist .......