The Art Of Patty Grazini.

Recently while in Ballard, I was introduced to the paper works of Patty Grazini. 

Her pieces are based on NY Times articles about petty criminals from between 1885-1915. This rat (it's all paper!) was my favorite. Go check them out in Ballard at the Curtis Steiner space.

http://pattygrazini.com/

Laura Makabresku

Laura Makabresku's subtle crestfallen photos posses a stillness and a silence that haunts me. 

I love them.

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{available soon}

Liber Novus

For those interested in psychology, archetypes, the occult, or Jung, this rare item is now available. Not only is it available, it's free for download.

Carl Jung's "Liber Novus" aka "The Red Book" is a 205-page manuscript written and illustrated by Jung between approximately 1914 and 1930, which was not published or shown to the public until 2009. Until 2001, his heirs denied scholars access to the book, which he began after a falling-out with Sigmund Freud in 1913. Jung originally titled the manuscript Liber NovusA New Book in Latin), but it was informally known and published as The Red Book. The book is written in (literally meaning calligraphic text and contains many illuminations.

Thanks to justinfinity. Head over to his tumblr for the download link.

All Sorts Of Remedies

If your in NY I highly recommend:

Herbert Pfostlz
ALL SORTS OF REMEDIES

OBSERVATORY is proud to announce the opening of our new art exhibition by Herbert Pfostl.

Please join us on Saturday, November 21st at 7pm to celebrate:

Opening: Saturday, November 21st at 7:00pm
Exhibition: November 21, 2009 – January 8, 2010
Gallery Hours:
Thursday and Friday 3-6pm
Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm

Enter through Proteus Gowanus gallery

Small paintings as parables of plants and animals and old stories of black robbers and white stags. Fragments on death like mirrors from a black sleep in the forests of fairy tales. All stories from the dust of the dead in fragments and footnotes like melodies of heartbreak and north and night and exploration–breakdowns. About saints with no promise of heaven and lost sailors forgotten and the terribly lonely bears. The unknown, the ugly – and the odd. Collected grand mistakes, noble errors from many sources. Sinking signals - conscious or not – sonatas and last letters and great insults. The impossible tears in landscapes of ocean or stranded whales. A going far back to coals and cruelties and sobbing like songs in whiskey and blood. Of soldiers’ last letters and all seven seas. With pirates and wars and prayers in holes in the ground. Of fallen women and orphaned children and drowned slaves and burned saints.

More information at OBSERVATORY.