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Decor from glass artists

BY KIM COOK  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chris Ahalt’s menagerie of blue whales, pink hippos and gold giraffes looks like a flotilla in a really fun dream.

Their balloon-animal bodies are gathered at the point of attachment in a tight little knot, tethered to a tiny lead weight.

But they aren’t latex. Ahalt, who lives in Minneapolis, makes the whimsical yet realistic-looking creatures out of blown glass.

“Balloons, to me, suggest celebration, children and wonder,” he says. “The animals that I pick appeal to those child-like sensibilities as well.”

But there’s profundity in his designs, as well. He crafts animals that are facing endangerment; rendering them in glass, he says, highlights not only their beauty but their precarious existence.

“The thrill never gets old of thwarting the glass’ desire to fall apart, and it’s always a victory when a piece comes together,” Ahalt says.

“At times I do wish I’d chosen a career in something a little less temperamental,” he laughs. “Glassblowing can be a really frustrating medium. There are countless hours lost to broken glass.” (www.thechesterfieldgallery. com) There are lots of other artists, too, willing to take the risk.

Danielle Blade and Stephen Gartner, glassblowers in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, create vessels and lighting inspired by the environment outside their rural studio.

“Both of us have strong ideas about beauty. We have spectacular gardens here, and it’s wonderful to wander them,” Gartner says.

“We’re trying to bring that walk in the woods into our living room,” says Blade.

In their Strata collection of vases and vessels, tones of warm, earthy color are blown into layers that evoke geological terrain.

A pendant light rendered in different hues brings to mind the gaseous planet Jupiter. Some of the design duo’s objects come topped with surprising touches like a delicate snail’s head; a sliver of animal bone or antler; or a curling leaf. (www.gartnerblade.com) Casey Hyland blows softly tinged blue and white glass into vessels that look like droplets of sky with wispy clouds. He’ll teach you how to blow your own ornaments, mugs and paperweights in classes offered at his Louisville, Kentucky, studio. (www.hylandglass.com) Loy Allen rests delicate glass monarch butterflies and dragonflies on bud vases and perfume bottles, using

creations; for example, she encases chandeliers, or piano keys and sheet music, inside her tables. O2, available as a side or coffee table, suspends 100 Murano glass balls inside a transparent cube to give the effect of bubbles in water. And the base of Yaroslavsky’s Luna table was also blown from Murano glass; the sphere looks like she plucked the moon from the sky and rested a glass top on it. (www.lianayar.com) 

This photo shows one of Chris Ahalt’s “balloon animals,” which are blown out of glass, and tethered to thin copper rods attached to small lead weights. With the pieces, Ahalt calls attention to the fragility and beauty of endangered species, in a whimsical way. Chris Ahalt, The Associated Press

a technique called lampworking, in which the glass is molded over a small flame. A native South Dakotan, she’s inspired by the plant and animal life around her Hot Springs studio, as well as by the Art Nouveau movement. (www.loyallen.net) Corvallis, Oregon-based artist Eric Bailey’s little creatures include sleek, racer-striped lizards, tree frogs and colorful snails that clamber impishly over bottles and cylindrical paperweights. (www.artfulhome.com) Beyond objects, some glass designers are producing furniture.

The “canvas” of a coffee, dining or side table can give an artist space to do extraordinary things.

John Foster, another Minneapolis-based artist, assembles multiple cut crystals of various sizes into his Sparkle Palace cocktail table, which looks like a giant molecular structure. When light shines through it, prisms cast a rainbow around the room. (www.thefancy.com) Designer Liana Yaroslavsky is known for avant garde

In this photo provided by Gartner/Blade, an Amethyst covered jar and bowl from Danielle Blade and Stephen Gartner are shown. In their Strata collection of vases and vessels, tones of warm, earthy color are blown into layers that evoke geological terrain. Some of the design duo’s objects come topped with surprising and exquisite touches, like a delicate snail’s head; a sliver of animal bone or antler; or a curling leaf. Jonathan Wallen/GartnerBlade, The Associated Press

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Ideas from Frida Kahlo’s garden

BY MAUREEN GILMER  TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Everyone saw her home, Casa Azul, in the movie “Frida,” the biography of Mexico’s most famous surrealist painter. The family house is in Coyoacan, where she grew up, a suburb just south of Mexico City. Today it is Museo Frida Kahlo for those intrepid enough to brave the trip to this lovely old town. And though wandering the house and Frida’s studio is an exceptional experience, there are some great ideas outside in the garden.

The grand courtyard of Casa Azul was where Frida kept all her pets: the hairless dogs and monkeys, birds and fish. The living spaces are separated by lava-lined planting spaces that support narrow tall trees. Cooling pools, deep green canopy, lava-lined beds and her collection of pre-Columbian gods are a physical reminder of Aztec life in the Valley of Mexico. The curious garden has changed since she died in 1954, now totally shaded. Yet if you study old photographs of Frida there in the day, you’ll notice that same garden was more open and sun-filled.

This transition from full sun to eventual shade is something that happens in all landcapes with trees. They begin in sun until canopies mature, then as shade increases the sun-loving species die out and shade plants replace them.

The corner house in Coyoacan is first a colonial one, then later as studio and bedroom wing were added by Diego in a simple modern style. Newer construction uses indigenous stone, simple lines and large windows that illuminate the studio and look down over the garden. Between the studio and bedroom is the hallway to the garden door where Frida’s bed remains today. She asked that it be moved there toward the end so she could look out and

see the flowers and animals.

A PAINTER’S TRANSFORMATION

The original house was not blue; we know this from childhood photos taken by her photographer father. Painting the house blue was done later, when she and Diego lived there. Today it still features that color known as “azul anil,” believed to prevent evil from entering. Since then even more colors have been added giving the space a more festive overall appeal.

CANARY YELLOW FURNITURE

Today the courtyard is used for visitors after they’ve toured the house. The traditional painted Mexican furniture is bright canary yellow, a color that is complementary to the blue so it really pops. Imagine your own garage sale finds painted like this against a blue background.

SHADE PLANTS

Few flowers bloom at Casa Azul due to the tall tree canopy that shades the garden. The space was sun-filled in Frida’s early days, when vintage photos show white hairy “old man” cactus and other sun lovers thriving there. The current gardeners have preserved the madonna lilies that grow all over Coyoacan like weeds. They also exploit impatiens, our shade garden annuals that grow large and lacy in that mild winter climate. Other plants common there are grown in pots along the many low seatwalls. Spider plants and sansevieria, both frost-tender, are common here, as well as a series of leatherleaf bergenia in terra cotta pots.

Photo provided by the Phillips Auction House shows Diego Rivera’s “Baile en Tehuantepec.” Phillips Auction House says that the painting that has sold privately for $15,7 million dollars sets a world record price for any work of Latin American art. The figure nearly duplicates the previous record of Latin American art set for Frida Kahlo’s “Dos desnudos en el bosque,” which sold for more than $8 million dollars at a Sotheby’s public auction on May 12. 2016 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Phillips Auction House, The Associated Press

MONUMENTAL ART Both Diego and Frida were avid collectors of pre-Columbian statuary and architectural pieces yielded from the early excavations of Aztec ruins. Much of her chunky jewelry came from actual finds in the diggings. The reverence for the history of Mexico prior to Cortez demonstrates the strong nationalistic fever of the day that drove so many of Rivera’s mural subjects.

It takes a lot of guts to paint anything azul anil because it’s such a super potent color,

but once it’s there as a background, the entire space changes. It did so in that old colonial with the modern expansion, and then with color and artifact and stone, the garden evolved from a creative woman’s oasis that now can be felt by everyone willing to visit the “place of the coyotes” to experience firsthand the place she called home.  Maureen Gilmer is an author, horticulturist and landscape designer. Learn more at www.

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Say bye-bye to vocal fry, filler words and other presentation challenges

BY LEE PRICE  MONSTER.COM

You’re on. It’s your turn to speak, present or tell a group what you think. How do you respond? If you’re like most people, your heart starts to pound, your voice shrinks and you stumble over every third word. Don’t freak out.

This is a common reaction for many speakers, whether they’re on stage in front of a crowd or just presenting to coworkers in a meeting.

The good news is that you can overcome these pesky hang-ups once and for all.

We asked speech experts and coaches for their tips on avoiding common public speaking roadblocks. With a little practice, you can send these three bad habits packing.

BAD HABIT: RELYING ON FILLER WORDS

Why it’s a problem: People use filler words (“um,” “ah” “like,” “you know,”) when they’re uncomfortable with silence or lacking confidence, says Jeremey Donovan, author of How to Deliver a TED Talk.

How to overcome it: Record yourself to understand where you’re using filler words (are they mid-sentence or between sentences?) and train yourself to simply pause instead of using the filler word. “One of the things that really helps me is knowing that other people appreciate the pauses,” says Donovan. “It’s a gift to the listener because the listener needs

time to process what you’re saying.”

One technique Donovan uses: “I pause for one beat at whatever feels like a comma, and for two beats whatever feels like a period.”

BAD HABIT: VOCAL FRY

Why it’s a problem: Vocal fry is the sound you make in your throat when you run out of air as you’re speaking. Matt Abrahams, who teaches business students at Stanford how to give more effective presentations, lumps vocal fry with other “vocal graffiti” that distract our audience.

How to overcome it: “Any technique that helps people relax can help vocal graffiti,” Abrahams says. “Take deep belly breaths, meditate, try tensing everything up for a few seconds and then relaxing.” Then, at the end of a sentence, “get rid of the air purposefully, and land on a down tone.”

Donovan recommends a similar exercise: Take a huge, deep breath and deliver one sentence at a time to get a sense of what it feels like to have enough air in your lungs.

Next, record yourself speaking to understand what the vocal fry sounds like, and practice eliminating the vocal fry through breathing.

BAD HABIT: SOUNDING COLD OR AGGRESSIVE

Why it’s a problem: Many speakers struggle to sound warm and friendly while still commanding authority. When people focus too much on sounding formal, assertive or smart, they can come off as cold and aggressive.

“Excess formality often comes off as lowconfidence,” Donovan says. “Excess formality is like showing up at a business casual workplace wearing a tuxedo.”

How to overcome it: Ita Olsen, a speaking coach in Malibu, California, says that overarticulating is one of the ways people can sound excessively distant. Instead of articulating every letter, she says, the trick is using a strong intonation on the parts of

the words that have the most information, and not on what she calls the “grammar glue” the less important sounds like prefixes, conjunctions and prepositions. “Don’t try to sound smart,” she says. “Just try to reach people, get in touch and love them. That’s a way to get out of yourself, and that’s what gets people to like you.”

Abrahams says that sounding warm is also about word choice. He suggests using inclusive language (“you,” “us,” “we”). “Speak from the perspective of your audience,” he says. For example, try saying “what we learned today” versus “what I showed you today.” 

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