Hello Everyone! I’m live from the studio today, with some good news: my photobook demo arrived not too long ago, and it looks pretty amazing! Collage 26 is a hybrid album: part photo, part collage, where collage is conceived as a photo from a dream world; a snapshot of a mood, an idea, an emotion, a cognition… wherever I happen to wander; the decisive moment exists between the outer world and within.
I’m pretty excited about the concept, and so I might release a fuller album sometime in the near future. In the mean time, check out some stills and snaps from the demo:
“Run First, Fly Later” mug created by RL a.k.a. Wind Ma for personal use. Source: Author
Hi Everyone! Happy Easter, if you celebrate 🙂 I am more so like a leaf twirling about in the wind when it comes to these things, but! I was pleasantly surprised yesterday:
I finally received my “Run First, Fly Later” mug in the mail!
This design started a few weeks ago, after learning that baby barn owls run before they fledge. The original photo was taken by Hannie Heere, an amateur photographer with a penchant for wildlife.
“This young bird could not fly yet and was not afraid,” she told PetaPixel.
Imagine snapping a photo like that as an amateur! Coolness indeed.
Being smitten as I am with owls—and especially their “sneaky” ability to run, I was inspired to create a wallpaper based on Heere’s photo. It was mostly an off-the-cuff thing, driven by inspiration. It occurred to me that so much in life is like that: one needs to walk before learning to run; one needs to run before learning to fly.
Maybe that’s part of the reason why Heere’s photo is so interesting: she captured one of life’s essential maxims in action.
(Bonus points for cuteness!)
“Run First, Fly Later,” wallpaper by RL, a.k.a. Wind Ma. Running owl photo by Hannie Heere.
Well, as a celebration of life, baby barn owls, and Hannie Heere’s photo, I am making this wallpaper available for all to download 🙂
I became so happy with the wallpaper that I decided to make a mug out of it. It took some adjusting of the design for better fit into the longer mug template, but I think that it turned out pretty cool!
“Run First, Fly Later” coffee mug, designed by RL a.k.a. Wind Ma. Turned out pretty good! 😀 Owl photo by Hannie Heere. Mug designed for personal use only.
The mug was designed for personal motivation (LOL) and is currently unavailable for purchase. Nevertheless, I’m grateful that such a cute moment was captured on camera, making barn owlets a fun source of motivation for years to come.
Greetings Everyone! Happy end of March! I was just thinking about how March always seems so endless to me. Today feels like March 32!
Anywho, I bear happy tidings. Those who know me in some capacity know that I’ve always dabbled in the arts. One of my dreams was to become a professional graphic designer, and while I was unable to pursue it after high school (though I spent many a teenage hour on Paint Shop Pro :D), I was able to find my way back to it in recent years, finally earning a credential in Graphic Art and Design from Rio Hondo College in 2022.
Well, while graphic design is not art, it certainly helped with the way that I approached my expressive-type of art. After a year of applied, dedicated study (and another in art history), I felt a bit more confident in embracing the style of art that became synonymous with Wind—that part of me that struggles with calling herself an artist but who likes to create art just the same.
Wind Ma, Mantis (or “After Enlightenment”), 2024, acrylic, metal and gesso on wood panel, 9.5” x 9.5”. Galería Pluma Verde.
While my works currently span styles and mediums, I’m especially fond of the paintings section, which as of now has five works available for sale. Mostly, I’d like for them to find their “forever homes,” if you will. I currently live in LA, but who knows what tomorrow will bring. To my amazement, I’ve somehow amassed a small collection of Wind paintings, which are now ready to find their way out into the great wide world, into the lively walls of a welcoming abode.
Anywho! Let us see what this crazy venture brings! 😀 More paintings should become available for sale within the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned.
Happy Spring! At least, that’s what the calendar tells me today. With the way that this heat wave is going, you would think that we’re right in the middle of a brutal August!
However, Spring it is, and grateful we are for the shift away from the cold nights of Winter 🙂 (Though it’s easy to miss the natural A/C of February weather).
Anywho! I was so looking forward to Spring this year, that I made—and finally launched!—a commemorative print through pluma-verde.framer.art.
“Oh, interesting!,” you might say. “And why Pluma Verde and not, say, ‘robmarie-lopez.framer.art’?” You might ask. Well, thank you for asking, dear reader! Actually, I originally set up this account as a little shop for the art featured in my published books—or, the books published through my small indie editorial, Ediciones Pluma Verde. The selection was mostly in Spanish until a few days ago, when I finally published ARTEFRECUENCIA, a multilingual arts and letters magazine with a few illustrated short stories and other cool stuff.
In light of the fact that there’s a lot of cool stuff that I’d like to share on Framer, the selection has slowly expanded to include non-book related art—which is a plus! Working with art for publication has given me the opportunity to remix works, create new ones, and engage with more creative experimentation overall.
