Jeremy Miranda

The other weekend in Portsmouth, NH I came across Jeremy Miranda's work 

at the amazing Nachotta Gallery & Store. 

see more/buy here 

Fields of Flowers

Yes, these are fields of tulips, and yes I came across them on weather.com.

(And then I forgot to check the forecast.) 

VAN BUUREN HOUSE

The most memorable part of my Belgium trip,

 was visiting the Van Buuren House in Brussels. 

Purchased in 1928, the home was made into a "living academy" 

of rare art deco furniture, carpets, 

stained-glass windows, sculptures and international masterpieces. 

The gardens that surround the house are just as incredible. 

The home was turned into a museum in 1975 after Alice's death. 

Images my own, a couple from the site.

CUBA

Fruits,

Flowers +

Guns.

Cuban posters from the 1980's,

 promoting nationalism, solidarity, feminism, tourism and the like.

here

EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS

Yes, we are alive.

On my way to Dover Street Market in London, 

I made a pit stop at Robilant + Voena gallery 

to check out David LaChapelle's Earth Laughs in Flowers. 

These large Baroque style still life (photographs)

are quite something in person. 

 (Watch)

...And much more London to come!

pssss

 “Hamatreya” (1846) by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), 

in which flowers articulate nature’s ridicule and contempt for human arrogance

 in the pretense to dominion over earth.

"Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds:
And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough.
Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys
Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;
Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet,
Clear of the grave.”

gardens

maybe one day we will each have our own

until then, we can dream through these pictures

more here