Posts in the “FASCINATIONS” category
Queens of Halloween
by angeliska on November 10, 2011
This Halloween Season was a flurry of fancy parties, fabulous shows, and numerous costumes – a few of which I will attempt to recount in the following snaps from a week of spooky fun. Coco Coquette’s astounding Beautiful Monsters show (…)
Las Catrinas
by angeliska on November 3, 2011
Alas, this year’s flurry of activity and happenings left me entirely wrung out, and in a state of disrepair, having been bogged down with whatever malaise has got everyone around me likewise gripped in its throes. Thus, I find myself (…)
Tintinnabulation Station
by angeliska on October 21, 2011
Inspired by both elaborate historic costume and animal architecture, Tintinnabulation Station’s shape is reminiscent of a beehive or igloo. The piece is a tipi-canopy created to resemble a meticulously constructed bird’s nest or spider’s web. Once inside, any movement made (…)
Double Rainbow Honey
by angeliska on September 14, 2011
♥ Lisa Bettany shot this amazing photo of a Double Rainbow Over Manhattan after a recent storm in NYC. In order to counter some of the disaster-fraught gloom looming ’round these parts of late, I’ve ordered up a double helping (…)
Dreams of Fire
by angeliska on September 6, 2011
More than 60 fires have erupted all around my city. Over 500 homes have been consumed by flames. Recently, I dreamt of fires erupting in my ancestral home, the home that my great-grandmother, and my grandparents lived in. My mother (…)
Magic Windows #23
by angeliska on August 7, 2011
To christen and complete my newly cleaned and decorated studio, I got a little half-moon Siamese fighting fish that Colin named Finnegan. He’s adorable. It’s been a long time since I had a fish. The last betta I had, Nico, (…)
The Left Eye of Horus
by angeliska on August 3, 2011
Horus was the ancient Egyptian sky god who was usually depicted as a falcon. His right eye was associated with the sun Ra. The eye symbol represents the marking around a Peregrine Falcon’s eye that includes the “teardrop” marking sometimes (…)
Dithyrambalina: Musical Architecture in New Orleans
by angeliska on July 27, 2011
So! I am very excited to announce that Colin and I will be collaborating on a piece that will be part of amazing project called Dithyrambalina: The Brooklyn-based artist Swoon, who may know from her beautiful wheat-pasted cut-out street art (…)
Magic Windows #22
by angeliska on July 26, 2011
My, it’s been an age since I last made a foray into the world of Magic Windows! I’m not sure why, exactly – other than that I have heaps of photos tucked away where I can’t access them without the (…)
Happy Birthday Pandora!
by angeliska on July 22, 2011
Today marks a very special holiday indeed – the birthday of my dearest darling, Miss Pandora Gastelum. In lieu of getting to celebrate her whelping with her (the travesty of why this cannot be is detailed below), I am writing (…)
