Art Hijack

The artworld experience

Handkerchief Art

This project was born from a personal need to get my grandmother’s handkerchiefs out of the boxes and baggies she had stored them in and out in the open where they could be appreciated. All you need is a moment or two to see how beautiful these lightweight fabric squares were. In fact so beautiful, I can’t really imagine using them for what they were intended. Perhaps most of them were there for emergency brow dabbing and neck patting on those sweltering August afternoons. That’s how I’m going to think about them!

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Celtic Art
Background

The ancient peoples now called “Celts” spoke a group of languages that had a common origin in the Indo-European language known as Common Celtic or Proto-Celtic. This shared linguistic origin was once widely accepted by scholars to indicate peoples with a common genetic origin in southwest Europe, who had spread their culture by emigration and invasion. Archaeologists identified various cultural traits of these peoples, including styles of art, and traced the culture to the earlier Hallstatt culture and La Tne culture. More recent studies have indicated that various Celtic groups do not all have shared ancestry, and have suggested a diffusion and spread of the culture without necessarily involving significant movement of peoples.[citation needed]

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Learning The Martial Arts Forms Art By Art
When we consider the best martial arts forms we are speaking of those martial arts kata that result in a the most benefit to the student. To be honest, I usually recommend learning as many kata as possible, then working on the ones that the student prefers, although there can be oddities in this approach. I also hold that one should learn whole arts, first taekwondo, then karate, then kung fu, and so on.

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