witches brew

This weekend was wet, and cold. A small snow storm instantly brought me to tears, but I decided to change my attitude and look at my cup of warm hot chocolate as being half full rather than half empty. It is true that my sock-less flip-flopped feet are colder these days and I've spent more time in my sweats than I'd like to admit, but I realized hey! what the hell, its time to start appreciating my enviroment! After all, how many people get to live in a four season climate and witness and experience firsthand the constantly changing beauty that is unique and wonderful to every individual season?! How amazing to be able to see the cycle of life changing and molding right before our very eyes!

Saying that, I spent this weekend changing our decor from summer/tropical to fall/Halloween (did I mention that Halloween is my very favorite holiday of all?)! The house now pleasantly smells of burning candles and soup. There are owls and skulls, colorful leaves and gourds mixed with fall flowers picked at my front door and candle light filling the house with warmth and fun ghoulish spirits! I must admit, the change of seasons has inspired me to clean the house, be more artistic and cook warm treats that warm stomachs and hearts as the weather gets colder!

Do I dare say it? Can it be true? I'm loving fall!! Maybe its a brain cramp or some overwhelming sense of happiness that I can't shake being a newly wed, but somethings wrong. I shouldn't be out of mourning for my summer already??!! Wait my feet are cold, that sucks.. I do miss summer... but not as much as I thought I would.

Well anyway, while I try to figure out my mixed up feelings, here is a tribute of an unusual kind to the fall:

Artist and hoaxer, Laura Keeble, became well-known for her reactive piece against Damien Hirst's multiple million dollar art work, skull. However she depicted her 6522 Swarovski crystal version of the skull as nothing more than trash being haphazardly set atop a pile of throw-aways that appears to be ready for pick-up. What a statement!




Damien Hirst created and covered a skull with over 1100+ carats of diamonds and was just sold to an investment firm for over $100 million dollars (talk about elitest, rich white man art). Check it out below! I think I like Keeble's version better!



Keeble dabbles in death with her newest public works of art in the form of spray-painted polystyrene and plaster headstones. The project was based on the theory of magical thinking, looking at belief systems and idol worship(Chanel'lo!!), and creating an intervention that like other works, plays with the viewers perception and creates a pause for thought!