Every Monday I try to post a list of things I’ve found inspiring throughout the weekend, something to make Mondays a little more pleasant. This Monday needed no help, since I took the day off and went to Asheville in search of art (Jay had a school project that involved writing about an exhibit). We started with the Blue Spiral gallery, where we were completely mesmerized by the work of Kyoko Masutani (click any pictures to see bigger):

That’s at least a hundred tiny shoes made entirely of…used teabags!

Most of her work was ink on paper or wood, intensely dense line drawings of repeating, organic patterns, layered on each other. I kept commenting that I was drawn to them like fabric and some of the pieces, from afar, looked like a pile of patterned paper or fabrics, collaged on top of one another.

This sort of obsession with . . . → Read More: inspiration: Asheville