Worlds collide and connect so much these days. Technology, and the wonderful world of blogs and virtual media it has enabled, meets up with traditional printed media like magazines, newspapers, books. You find one dot in an article you read, and then another dot to connect to it on a blog. Ping, pong, it bounces around the globe or your office or in your head. Sometimes I feel like there is a new buzzing energy, different from any other time in history happening today, because of all this new connection.
One recent illustration of this phenomenon from my little world, was around the artist/designer Petra Borner. A few weeks ago I discovered her, thanks again to one of my favorite design blogs, design sponge. I linked to her site and was thrilled by her work, her illustration, embroidery work, drawings. Happy, happy was I!
Then last week I was turned on to the wonderful book, into the nature of creatures and wilderness by Katharina Klara Jung. What a great overview of some amazing art that uses nature as an inspiration, motif and subject. And my favorite pieces in the book were these drawings that felt like textile designs, like the one above. Who did them, I wondered. I flipped to the back of the book, discovered that they were by Petra Borner, had forgotten who she was, linked to the site listed, and there I was again, on the site I'd visited just a week before. Loving her terrific work some more.
Not a particularly exciting story per se and this may be where I'm showing my age a bit. For people who've grown up with this sort of digital/virtual crossover coincidence kind of thing, this probably seems like no big deal. But I'm still amazed by it. Thrilled that I am getting access to people and things I couldn't have dreamed of only a couple of years ago. Amazed by the speed to which I can get that access. I think it's luxurious. All this connection, makes me very happy. And now I know about people like Petra Borner who's wonderful, inspiring work is some of the best I've seen in years. Life can be very good sometimes!
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