Hello friends! I hope you’ve been faring well. This heat wave has been killer. Like a cat, I can’t decide whether I prefer being outside or inside for the summer. As an introvert, my existing-at-home time is crucial, but it’s been hijacked by this steaming heat that makes outside being somewhat more tolerable.
But that’s not always a bad thing! In fact, it was a great thing a few days ago, when I turned—well, I turned a fabulous age 😉 My original plans got curtailed by life (as they naturally would), but I managed to pivot gracefully towards what turned out to be an amazing day at Santa Monica Beach 😀
To commemorate the occasion, I’m sharing some of my favorite pics from that snazzy event. Me, the gulls, the waves, the fabulous beachscape, the interesting people… good times!
Hello friends! I’m excited to share that our RedBubble wares are now better accessible through windma.shop, so update your bookmarks!
That being said, I’m happy to announce that I’ve been “hard at work” adding new designs to the shop. While I love the idea of my art existing as prints (some of which, by the way, can now be found at wind-ma.framer.art), it’s also really cool to see some of your art living a second life as a funky design. It reminds me of the 19th century Arts & Crafts ethos, which basically encouraged artful design as a way to imbue daily life with aesthetic meaning/appreciation.
Anywho! You can find a bevy of cool stuff over at windma.shop. Stickers and prints are, of course, cool and less expensive ways to display some of these artworks. However, I’m especially partial to notebooks, tote bags, cushions and backpacks—I think that this is where the designs really shine!
Also, if you’d like to help out and spread the word about windma.shop, I’d be most grateful! ☺️ Feel free to use the banner above to link to the shop (our guestbook is pending—but if you like what you see, drop a comment below).
Something that I love about Downtown Los Angeles is its flowing geometricity. One gets the sense that one object in the environment leads to another in straightforward, visually harmonic ways. There is a minimalistic sleekness in this compact skyline; it condenses and subtracts; it interacts and one can feel at times as if assembling a visual—perhaps spatial–puzzle; “construct your own view,” so to speak.
There is a begrudging charm to this no-nonsense approach to the city grid, which is structured but also surprisingly fluid. Out for a walk today near downtown, I appreciated the curves and slopes of the streets, helping your eyes go along for a jog.
I was going through some of my floral artworks today, just minded to observe the relationships between them in some detail, when three works caught my attention: Blossoms at High Noon, Tiny Apple Blossoms, and Pasadía (original collage).
Mostly, I love the formal connection between them; how one branch leads into the other, establishing a sequence between the works. Juxtaposing these images, it occurred to me that so much of perception is like that, intentionally or non.
These three scenes in particular lead the eye from dimness to clarity to the creative junction of disparate visuals, creating a coherent whole. These florid branches of apple blossoms, seen from afar, have been made dim by the searing clarity of the light behind them. So it goes with life: sometimes a handful of light creates a fistful of shadow. Zooming in to the tiny apple blossoms, we can appreciate more clearly the subtle nuances of each flower. Petals interact in proximity, in natural harmony, in turn perceived as a delicacy by the eye.
So much is derived from the harmony of nature. A sense of balance, of fulfilling logic, emerges from these simple events within and throughout nature, just waiting to be grasped.
The final artwork is named Pasadía (“Day Trip”) because it unfailingly evokes in me that simple freedom of spending a day outdoors, enjoying sights and little treats. These simple but necessary experiences in life help us reset and focus on reality as lived momentum.
Contextualized by the two photographs, Pasadía also strikes me as the culmination of a centered awareness on nature’s details. We are able to access these moments as we live them, as they are encountered the first time, and we are also able to recover them from memory and reinvent them in novel, interesting ways. As such, the pasadía lives outside and within, forever melding across consciousnesses to infuse our present lives with meaning.
Through collage, some of that perceptual layering becomes expressible through reliefs. Here I rather like how light meets paper to create a lived sense of illumination. Shadows naturally frame the work, also evoking the paradoxical effects of lighting.
Hey Everyone! It’s been a minute since I shared some good news. But, fret not, for good news I share: Wind Ma is now on RedBubble! 🎉
And—tooting my horn a little bit, because cool stuff like this rarely happens—RedBubble found my style so “profesh” that they actually upgraded my account to Premium! 😭
So yeah! I encourage you to check out my shop and grab some swag while you can! 😀
There’s 5 designs currently available (I’ll be adding more soon enough), and you can get them on tees, totes, stickers and more. If, like me, you’re a fan of “putting art to good use”, then you’ll probably have a kick out of what’s available! I actually got for myself a “Sneaky Owl” tee and an “Owl St.” holographic sticker (because I am a notorious owler 💕🦉) and both finally got here yesterday!
Shared yesterday on Insta… you can also follow me for more updates!
RedBubble is having some type of sale today—everything is 40% off, so if a good deal’s your thing, now’s the time to strike 😛
Some of Wind Ma’s designs… “Bejeweled” was inspired by Medieval Stained Glass. It makes a cool tote!
Comment on this post or send me an e-mail at contact@windma.net if you have any questions!
Hey Everyone! I’m happy to share that the Collage 26 free e-book campaign was a success! 🎉
Many thanks to all who downloaded the photobook. If you enjoy the photo-collage art exhibit, I hope that you consider leaving a review on the Collage 26 Amazon page (windma.net/collage26). Comments here or through contact@windma.net are also greatly appreciated!
If you missed the free e-book promo, you’ll be glad to know that, in gratitude for the support, the Collage 26 e-book price has been lowered to just $2.99! So… grab it while it lasts!
There is also a print version available at $14.99. There’s something about printed art that hits a bit different, so I hope you consider getting the printed exhibit as well ^_^
Thanks again for the support! I know there is an impossible amount of exclamation points in this post. I think that the level of excitement warrants them, so here’s another one!
