Most recently I discovered the Gee's Bend quilt makers and their incredible abstract compositions. Just wonderful unexpected colors and slightly "off" geometries that make them, I think, paragons of quilts... rivaling anything the abstract painters have done. Inspiring. I discovered them during research for my last show, Alabaster, set in rural Alabama - a show steeped in folk art of a different style, but the quilts inspired our scenic colors and attitude.
Learn more HERE at Gee's Bend Quiltmakers: Souls Grown Deep.
Gee's Bend quilt - fair use of this image, I think
And my other oft repeated how-could-I-forget-this?! discovery of the poems of Billy Collins:
"...The silence of the falling vase
before it strikes the floor..."
I found myself in the little hours, still reading in a cooled bath tub... Wonderful stuff.
More HERE at allpoetry.com
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