• Home
  • NOURISH Gallery
  • Paintings By Carl Barnett
  • Projects
  • Blog
  • PHILOSOPHY
  • Contact
Menu

NOURISH

Street Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Number
art design interior design painting writing

Your Custom Text Here

NOURISH

  • Home
  • NOURISH Gallery
  • Paintings By Carl Barnett
  • Projects
  • Blog
  • PHILOSOPHY
  • Contact

Spaces and things

February 15, 2019 Carl Barnett
George Kroustallis

George Kroustallis

“They inform who we are, inspire our emotions and visit our sleeping dreams.”

Images float through our minds, as we navigate our days: spaces and forms, bodies and things. They inform who we are, inspire our emotions and visit our sleeping dreams. We touch their textures and see their angles, feeling every history they imbue. 

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

“Our eyes graze the surfaces in search of signs of the maker, evidence of the hand that built.”

Objects tell us their stories, as the spaces in which they’re contained, though subtle they may seem. Our eyes graze the surfaces in search of signs of the maker, evidence of the hand that built. This speaks more to a physical need or language to express, than the utility these objects prescribe. A walk amongst a Greek ruin must feel exactly this, may spark the same desire. 

George Kroustallis

George Kroustallis

“It is these things, these spaces and forms, that speak to who we are.”

Bodies in spaces and objects in hand, tell us exactly their function. But it is the associative emotion that runs deep, building the memories that come. It is these things, these spaces and forms, that speak to who we are. They pull at our histories, nudge at our emotions, give us pause to think.

John Sheppard

John Sheppard


Ric Best

Ric Best

Trees

February 13, 2019 Carl Barnett
Madison Square Park - Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Madison Square Park - Carl Barnett Design/Studio

I have an adoration for trees without leaves.

Against an architectural peak.

The winter forms I admit inspire.

Enthralled with the canopy of lines.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Carl Barnett Design/Studio



Significance

February 12, 2019 Carl Barnett
Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Carl Barnett Design/Studio


MEANING


noun

what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import:

the three meanings of a word.

the end, purpose, or significance of something:

What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of this intrusion?




The significance of home in contemporary life.  (I give this space for thought)

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

“Life in all its contradictions surround.”

One cannot look at the world and not see its problems or look out the window and ignore emotion. Life in all its contradictions surround. This is a given, we are awash to life unfolding, parts to its ongoing building and layer within its beauty. 


There is a significance to all this, a meaning, though sometimes even under the microscope of thought, meaning eludes. 


What is significant is our doing, our individual efforts within the collective: how we see and make meaning. It is the efforts within our days that slices through meaning as we dissect and reassemble, creating the puzzle that resonates.

PHAEDO

PHAEDO


It is the day to day building of our homes, communities and social norms that creates the pathway forward. This is not by leaps nor bounds but honest making that life enfolds, bares its teeth and shines its light. 


Nutrition

February 10, 2019 Carl Barnett
Scout Tufankjian

Scout Tufankjian

“It is within simplicity that we find our humanity: that the future relies upon.”

How we live today, can be the nutrition to our future living and the simplicity to our current chaos.

Our choices. Our doing.

The built environment is a facilitator to what’s possible, magnifying our endeavors.

It is within simplicity that we find our humanity: that the future relies upon.

Our words. Our actions.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Spiral Up

February 7, 2019 Carl Barnett
Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

“Sometimes it is necessary to change perception and force the mirror’s angle: refract the light towards a different path.” 

To spiral up is to move away from the depths of doubt, flipping the negative to its polar opposite. Sometimes it is necessary to change perception and force the mirror’s angle: refract the light towards a different path. 

It is this endeavor that defines our current time, where hope finds its strongest need and strength of mind a deeper will. The future as we see it from its shortest path is a challenging vision, one that demands a pulling forward, starting now.

This will be our greatest challenge, a survival of the fittest. Our baby steps will get us started, but the sure footed will build the way. 

This is not meant as doomsday, just a matter of facts. A dialogue of the obvious and plea to the hopeful. 

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

← Newer Posts Older Posts →

POWERED BY SQUARESPACE.