Helen Frankenthaler and the magic carpet

When I was at art school one of my hero's was Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist, and later married to Robert Motherwell.
Not only was she one of the few women working in this genre who was as renowned as some of her male colleagues at that time, but her works have a luminosity and vulnerability I've rarely seen elsewhere.

Whenever I've seen some of these huge paintings, my heart has skipped a beat, as I breathe in the courage and power in front of me.

I am so grateful for her work, she continues to inspire me and nourish my apetite for new frontiers of colour usage and expression.

Tango 1926 by Jacques Henri Lartigue

Not only to I love Jacques Henri Lartigue's photographs, but I adore the tango.( I got this photo from here).

The tango must be one of the hardest things I've ever tried to learn! Not only do you have to keep all your senses alive and sensing, but you have to rigorously follow the difficult and precise steps and moves which make up this wonderful structured dance.

I truly believe it to be a form of Tantra because the male and female roles are so very clearly defined and to do with those very archetypal actions.