this is always a fun day and for once it wasn't sweltering.....loved the doll.....bought the booties for a friend's baby......and the messenger bag for my son. More details at the links below:
i ♥ dad...all dads need a new shirt...JL's are hand tailored locally in i♡NY ...meticulous details....gorgeous fabrics and colors...now 30% off this week...11 Little W. 12th st NYC...http://jussaralee.com/
This is always a fun outing, good stuff...bad stuff...weird stuff...handmade goods from real people nationwide and locally.
Public art Madison Square Park more info about the Spanish artist, Jaume Plensa and his sculpture below.Over the past three decades, the celebrated Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa has established an international reputation for creating public sculptures that are both monumental in scale and emotionally engaging in subject. Working in a wide variety of materials, Plensa has invigorated the practice of figurative sculpture with works that examine the intersection of the human form, language and communication, and global citizenship. Echo, a new site-specific sculpture for Madison Square Park, marks Plensa’s long-awaited New York City public space debut, and constitutes the largest monolithic work of art to be presented in Mad. Sq. Art’s seven-year history.
Echo, Plensa’s commission for Madison Square Park, depicts a nine-year old girl from Plensa’s Barcelona neighborhood, lost in a state of thoughts and dreams. Standing forty-four feet tall at the center of the park’s expansive Oval Lawn, Echo’s towering stature and white marble-dusted surface harmoniously reflect the historic limestone buildings that surround the park. Both monumental in size and inviting in subject, the peaceful visage of Echo creates a tranquil and introspective atmosphere amid the cacophony of central Manhattan.
Plensa’s sculpture also refers to an episode in Greek mythology in which the loquacious nymph Echo is forced as punishment to repeat only the thoughts of others. Plensa’s Echo plays on the narrative of this Greek myth by depicting a young girl’s face in a state of reverie, translating this sculptural portrait into a physical monument of the internalized voices of the thousands of daily visitors to Madison Square Park.
http://www.madisonsquarepark.org/things-to-do/calendar/jaume-plensa-in-madison-square-park
I just came across this interesting blog by Lloyd Kahn, founder of WHOLE EARTH CATALOG. What a treat to be able to get insight and his POV from his home base in Marin County, CA.
Next Saturday my friend, Jussara, will be hosting a trunk show for me at her boutique in the meatpacking NYC. Jussara has been making amazing hand tailored suits for the past 10 years from her shop in the meatpacking area. Every detail is meticulously considered and designed to be timelessly classic but modern and relevant for chic urban lifestyles. I love all my gorgeous clothes from Jussara, I just throw one of her jackets on over my usual casual studio outfits and I'm ready for a meeting/lunch date. 
Many of my friends love to visit my studio and see me work and check out all the equipment and tools. I like to recycle and reuse everything if I can. This image above is the preparation of silver scraps getting ready to be melted together to make one big sheet or wire of silver that can be made into something else.
If this summer finds you in either Great Barrington or Amagansett please visit my friend's newly opened stores where I will be showing my jewelry with lots of bright fun things for summer:
I collaborated with the costume designer, Susan Lyall, to create special pieces for Jodie Foster (director/actor) in THE BEAVER which received a standing ovation at this year's CANNES FILM FESTIVAL.
