From Antonia and Desmond:
We’ve been looking to buy a cabin for years, but never found one that felt right: close-ish to Cape Town (our home base), super private and located in nature, etc. In early 2017 we found and bought this almost three hectare property close to the beautiful Bain’s Kloof Pass in the Western Cape of South Africa. The pass (25 kilometers) was built in 1849, it was seen as the gateway between Cape Town and the north. We decided to build our tiny dream cabin: thirty square meters of living space (plus a loft bedroom of twelve square meters) and a sixty square meter deck. Our wooden structure cabin is located high on a mountain slope in a nature reserve. It can only be reached by foot or a 4x4 vehicle. We just finished the cabin in time for the national Corona-lockdown we are experiencing in South Africa (extended until 30 April 2020). The best part of this cabin is that it is so isolated, set in Fynbos (natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa) and yet only 1.5 hours drive from Cape Town. Here you can find rock paintings, spot Klipspringers (a small buck with Mountain goat type claws), baboons, Cape Cobras, Dassies, Leopard’s, and many birds, to mention a few. Also, a wide range of flora endemic to this area can be found. In the valley we have a lovely river spot for refreshing swims.
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Tomás Sánchez Landscapes
Costa Rica-based artist Tomás Sánchez paints large scale serene landscapes of lush forests. These pieces are part of an ongoing series dating back to 1974, when the first piece was created. You can find the entire collection here.
The Stump Cabin in the Pacific North West
Contributed by Matt
Fuco Ueda’s “Odd-Eye” at Thinkspace Gallery.
Opening this Saturday, December 10th, 2016 at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, California is the highly anticipated solo show, “Odd-Eye,” by artist Fuco Ueda.
Ueda’s work exists in a dream-space, where the lonely subjects interact with apparitions and surreal elements painted in a glowing incandescent reverie. Symbols of death and loss are focal points within each painting, used to reinforce the idea that we do not inhabit the same plain of existence as these ghostly creatures. Thankfully Ueda is able to reach this dimension where these images lurk and bring them back down to us, like treasures from some long lost land.
“Odd-Eye” will be on display until December 31st, 2016.
Jean Art
UK-based artist Ian Berry uses denim as his medium of choice, everything you see in his work is denim, nothing else, no paint, nor bleach. Berry reshape the material with scissors and adhere layers atop one another with glue. Using blue, black, and gray jeans, he manipulates the assembly of various shades to capture brilliant contrasts of light. He’s able to mimic remarkably lifelike visions of shadows and depth within his textured “paintings.”
Oh wow, thank you so much! Didn’t know I was missed.
Best,
Leah