Sam Furness
@samfurness
Designing collective experiences and beautiful things that cultivate curiosity and creative ways of being.
Sam Furness
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There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.
Gordon Livingston Quote
Chengdu - China’s Park city
“I the sculptor am the landscape”
Thea Hawlin • ‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
Barbara Hepworth
Whenever I drive through the countryside and up the hills, I imagine forms placed in situations of natural beauty and I wish more could be done about the permanent siting of sculptures in strange and lonely places.
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
This intermingling of art and life was central to Hepworth. Just as she lived with nature so she lived with her sculptures: “It’s lovely to live with a sculpture, because it changes in every possible light; all through the day, moonlight, artificial light – any light – it’s always changing”
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
When we walk in the world we connect to our surroundings, on a basic level our feet tread the paths that many have taken before, looking from afar we become a moving and present part of the earth we live on, we acknowledge our place in it, even through the notionally insignificant movement of simply getting a breath of fresh air.
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
“Our fingers are our tools” was an instruction Josef Albers gave to students before inviting them to explore simple materials like straw, corrugated cardboard, and newspaper.
Our Fingers Are Our Tools - Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
“It is often misty at the threshold,” reflects writer Maria Popova.