Mint

For some reason, I’ve been thinking of Dan Wheeler’s house lately… One of my favorite Mint posts!

I love the color in this dish by fresh365, and I’m doubly intrigued because I’ve never cooked (eaten?) black rice. Bonus points for another asparagus recipe!

“macba bed” via linus lohoff

I’m still operating on the road, so I thought we’d start the week off with some flickr favorites! This one is by Jane McDevitt.

I’m visiting family this week, so I’m going to cut out a bit earlier than usual. Here are some links for your weekend!

+ I wish I had a subscription to the beautiful quarterly interiors magazine Apartamento.

+ If you don’t have space for a garden, this video tutorial on making your own salad bowl (potted lettuces & chard) might be just the right thing.

+ I like the typography on these jars for homemade jam, chutney, and more from Burgon & Ball.

+ Beautifully designed Eames catalog by House Industries (via design work life).

+ Screenprinters! Perfect Laughter has a great trouble-shooting guide.

+ Love this post on running a business and finding balance by Ink + Wit.

+ LOCAL STUFF: This weekend is the 3rd Friday art walk in Durham!

Photos by Amy Jones. For a tutorial on how Amy takes these great TTV photos, check out this post from the archives.

Miyoshi Barosh received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She currently has work at the New Children’s Museum in San Diego and at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.  In addition to showing in New York and Los Angeles, she was Managing Editor at BOMB magazine in the early eighties in New York, and editor and publisher of Now Time in the early nineties in Los Angeles.

Miyoshi is currently in need of experienced studio assistants. She is looking for rocking grannies who are good with knitting needles and / or crochet hooks, who are non-smokers and will work for snacks (if interested, comment on the post).

LP: Ok Miyoshi, Favorite book of all time? It’s a hard one, I know. Maybe just something good you’ve read recently?

MB: My favorite book is either the one I’m reading now, or the one that I’ll read in the future. I hate to think that my favorite book is one I’ve already read, because, then, each subsequent book would be a dissapointment. Books currebtly next to the bed: The Duchamp Effect; Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed; and David Foster’s Oblivion.

LP: Do you listen to music while you’re working? If so, what is it?

MB: I like everything from A3 to Young Marble Giants. Anything reminiscent of Brechtian cabaret is my favorite music right now for the studio.

LP: Describe a good dream you’ve had recently.

MB: I like this phrase, appropriated from Walter Benjamin, because it reads as bombastic manifesto: “the dreams that seep through to daylight and are antithetical to the Work Machine.”

LP: How does the idea of process play into your work?

MB:There usually is a conceptual underpinning, which is often clichéd by phrase, image, or idea. From there I like to layer images, colors, textures…Accumulation allows be to be looser with individual elements because the collected bits create lots of complexity. I like the juxtaposition of jarring elements, I find it reflects our networked lives.

LP: What sort of concepts surround your use of domestic materials and processes?

MB: I started using embroidery, crochet, knitting as well as recycles sweaters and afghans as a reaction to the use of fabricators by Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy. To counter testosterone-driven Pop, it seemed that “handiwork” would add a kind of Kippenberger-esque artworld f**y** as well as tactile, “happy” coziness. I try to use craft materials in a way that’s not precious or traditionally beautiful but has some muscular legs (see Giant Legs above).

Miyoshi’s work is represented by Luis de Jesus Gallery in Bergamont Station

Don’t forget to check out Miyoshi’s work on the gallery’s site.

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Lindsay Preston is an artist and graphic designer from San Diego. In “Lindsay’s Quick Queries”, Lindsay brings you work by contemporary artists, and answers to the questions everyone has been wondering about them, like “pancakes or waffles?”

There’s always something pretty in the slide sideways shop (previously blogged here), and these new screen printed tea towels and pouches are no exception. The tea towel patterns were inspired by walks through the Pacific Northwest forests, and the “Market Weave” zip pouches were inspired by an old book on weaving techniques.