The Planet On The Table

for April's National Poetry Month I've been sharing some of my favorite poems....

Installment 10 by Toni Pepe from the series The Gesture of Tradition

The Planet On The Table
by Wallace Stevens


Ariel was glad he had written his poems.
They were of a remembered time
Or of something seen that he liked.

Other makings of the sun
Were waste and welter
And the ripe shrub writhed.
His self and the sun were one
And his poems, although makings of his self,
Were no less makings of the sun.

It was not important that they survive.
What mattered was that they should bear
Some lineament or character,

Some affluence, if only half-perceived,
In the poverty of their words,
Of the planet of which they were part.


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A note on the photograph, I went to school with Toni and she is a dedicated, passionate artist. I love her work! I'm like the president of her fan club! You should totally join too...

Hope you are enjoying the poems- I didn't realize I posted them back to back, but I'm really loving pairing the imagery with words....

TPD at the PAC. be there.

my good friend toni pepe is going to be giving a talk tomorrow at the Philosophy & the Arts Confrence at Stony Brook Manhattan. it's a free event so if you're in the nyc area put on your corduroy elbow patch blazer and stop on by. she'll be talking about her new work, The Gesture of Tradition and showing a few images and embroideries from this series. i'm so proud to be friends such a talented, intelligent lady... good luck tomorrow toni!

all images toni pepe

check out more of toni's work here.

mail love and other stuff...

these past few weeks have brought me some amazing mail- one of my favorite things. so many, many thanks to these kind friends..

Chad ~ Mon Petit Fantome...

mr. Mon Petit Fantome, (who jeremy calls the Kevin Bacon of the etsy world because there seems to be three degrees between him and any etsy shop- he's just that nice!) sent me some mix CD's and this lovely little print he used for a note..

Alyssa ~ BrooklynRehab

I got a set of Alyssa's Uninvited Guests Doilies that came awhile back in the smartest packaging. these little doilies were wrapped in a gingham paper, like a table cloth. so good. i put them up in a little corner and you can see Chad's bear there close by in the second picture too...

Nicola,
is one of my great friends from school. she makes a-ma-zing baklava from an old family recipe. It's seriously delicious and insanely good. how amazing is it to get fresh, homemade baklava in the mail?!! **i'm pushing her to make an etsy store and pretty soon there should be one up.
any one interested?!**

she also sent me these tiny, vintage books which upon seeing i literally screamed in delight...

toni,
also a friend from school, sent me a curious new friend, but how the hell did she get the rhino in that little box? ha! so fun to receive. the package also had a vintage embroidery hoop, and a small, vintage glass bottle. the bug liked it too...

other wise this weekend has been spent lazily working. heres what i've been making of late:
new little/big constellations. here's a 5" Orion...chad, alyssa, nicola and toni thanks for all the mail love!!!

moustaches, cake and thanks...

firstly, many thanks to TheBline who included my red cross in her picks for the week, check it out. this is my first blog mention!
a belated birthday message to my good friend toni, who is an amazing artist. i visited her in boston for her birthday and wanted to share...thanks to Something's Hiding in Here for the perfect gift, a mustache on a stick. this one is "the barber." so good. i had a hard time giving it away. and yeah, she's eating a marshmallow wearing a 50cent necklace...
i also made her a little watercolor mounted on a page from an old german book. i was so happy with how it came out. i was sketching these little homes and decided that i should play with watercolors, and while i worked mi gato, the bug, kept me company. love it. but don't be fooled hes kinda a jerk...