MATTHEW LEAVITT

Marine agate

I love picture stones, whether landscape limestones such as Pietra Paesina from Italy (see http://on.fb.me/1NcRckv) or beautiful agates with seeming worlds within (http://on.fb.me/1NcRkR9). In this lovely Scottish specimen (probably born in bubbles in basalts that were erupted some 400 million years ago during the closure of the Iapetus Ocean) appears a seeming window into a mysterious beach world on a misty dawn, looking over a calm bay towards distant hills on the other side. One of the best specimens I’ve ever feasted my eyes on.

Loz

 It’s not just a fabric design, it’s architecture in several dimensions. A civil engineer’s perfect map layout of a utopian city. Green gardens freshwater phyto filtered pools, apartments, docks, walkways, bikeways, motorcycle and car tunnels (filtered noise/pollution), Museums for everyone’s creations, shops, workshops, laboratories, fabricators for anyone to reserve, giant nets as exercise architecture. If this were more of the google earth map instead of the google maps version you would see mountains and gardens and waterfalls around them in the green area, and giant reefs you can scuba dive in the blue… I stare at this curtain a little every day. Also the shapes work as buildings cut and from the side.

ink and pencil on card - original artwork by Jodie Bracken