I know I'm weird

Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

— Fabien Barral

      Haha, how true. Among my friends and family I'm considered to be kind of off and I never really expect them to understand me. Even though I am different they still love me. I appreciate them all more for loving me despite me being kinda of off. 

Studio Time!

In this edition of Studio Time, I'm exploring weird growths!

Another Quote: Look No Further, Heaven is right here

Heaven, I believe, is right here, just waiting for us to create it.
— JESSE SCACCIA


Thorough out my childhood, I've experienced and seen the ugly on a daily basis but even as a child I recognized beauty and longed to create it. And I did because drawing and making things were the only times I felt content and happy. The things I made made me happy and made other people happy and isn't that what heaven is all about: being happy.

Material Expriment

Tree disease

As a child I always believed that trees were these old, wise beings but of course science class challenge all that is fantasy. Even then I had already noticed that trees could die but it didn't make sense to me that trees could die at young ages instead of just aging.
Mr.Guffanti, my science teacher, noticed my interest and explained to me that trees can in fact get sick. Almost makes you wonder just how human-like that even plant life can be.

Serial planes: Tree Diseases

So for my project I'm exploring fungi and the way it looks on trees. Usually, fungi is found on dead trees but fungi could actually be the cause of death for a tree. The reason I want to do tree diseases was because it struck me odd that trees could get sickening really shouldn't since we we're all living.

Reading Terminal: Food chain

March 5, 2013
Reading Terminal Market Debuts Food Chain, A New Public Art Installation Now On Display
Posted by Aaron Horton
Filed in: ARTS ATTRACTIONS NEWS
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Food Chain is currently on display at Reading Terminal Market. (Photo by M. Edlow for GPTMC)

Reading Terminal Market’s new art installation is officially on view. Appropriately titled Food Chain, the piece is With Art Philadelphia’s first public art installation and was created by artist, textile designer and author/illustrator, Alex Stadler of stadler-Kahn.

Food Chain is constructed out of polychromed papier mache and carved Styrofoam and is the first of several art installations by local artists that will be popping up around the city over the next few months.

Also, in celebration of the Flower Show, Reading Terminal Market has extended their hours this week. Through Saturday March 10, Reading Terminal Market will be open through 7 p.m. and will stay open until 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 11 — giving attendees some extra time to enjoy the market and check out the new art installation.

Check out more photos, including a behind-the-scenes look, of Food Chain below.

Food Chain at Reading Terminal Market
When: Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Where: Reading Terminal Market, 51 N. 12th Street
Cost: Free
More info: www.readingterminalmarket.org








(All photos by M. Edlow for GPTMC)

About the artist:

Alex Stadler is an artist, textile designer and author/illustrator, based in Philadelphia since 1993. He is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and in 2010, he started stadler-Kahn textiles, producing scarves in New York City made from Italian merino and cashmere. In June of 2012, he opened stadler-Kahn at 1724 Sansom Street, a design shop featuring his stadler-Kahn scarves and other design work, shown alongside a mix of fine art, vintage pieces and anything else that intrigues him. Stadler is the author/illustrator of over ten children’s books and as an independent designer, has created work for Comme des Garcons, Nina Campbel ltd, Todd Oldham, babyGap and Token.

COMMENTS

I've always thought art on public display is a lot fun because its not only free but the art is almost always flamboyant or funny. This article also touches on what I've been noticing around me in the city. I see little pieces of art in the most random places where they weren't before like at 15th and 13th station on the L- train.