ANTHONY ZINONOS

These simple and minimalist collages are making me so happy today.

Life around here has been complicated.  We are in transition, on hold, paused.  Uncertainty, especially extended uncertainty, can be brutal.  It could be said that I am not a particularly patient person.  In my defense, order and stability seem like basic necessities in a home with two little ones.

While we are swimming in amazing possibilities and potential opportunities...everything remains just barely out of reach. So frustrating!

This  past weekend my incredible husband sent me on my way.  He knows me well enough to recognize when I need a break.  Occasionally it is important that I be alone with my thoughts.  It seems to be the only way I can process all that bounces around in my head.

After some alone time in Chattanooga, I went on to Nashville to spend some time with Mary.  The trip ended up being the perfect mix of work and play.  I can finally breathe deeply again.

I'm back home and feeling reenergized, inspired even.  I am determined to focus on what makes me happy instead of wallowing around worrying, complaining while I wait.

Thanks, as always, for following along!

Anthony Zinonos is a freelance collage illustrator based in Norwich, U.K.

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CHAD WYS

Seemingly so simple, incredibly clever...I am a huge fan of Chad Wys many talents.  

 I often explore/exploit the idea of objecthood: how we decorate our lives with arbitrary, as well as meaningful, things; how we objectify the ones we love and the strangers we see; how we objectify pain and death; how we objectify complex and sensitive cultural histories. I'm also deeply interested in understanding the reception of art, the reception of objects, and how extrinsic and intrinsic influences affect individuals' reception of the visuality they experience.

My readymade works frequently deal with the re-contextualization of decorative art objects. By retooling the object and then re-presenting it before the viewer I intend to add new layers to the conversation that takes place between the observer and the object in its original state. By reclaiming these objects I mean to acknowledge how our possessions (can/do) define us. In so many innumerable ways the bric-a-brac of our lives becomes a unit of measure of our own worth—I wish to subvert this measure. I enjoy infiltrating this territory of being and I revel in pointing to the superficial and the wonderfully imperfect character traits in all of us.

In a world of new, now and more- I find his art and his philosophy to be insightful and meaningful!  Thoughts?

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all images and selected text:  Chad Wys