Charlayn von Solms
@charlayn.bsky.social
Sculptor, lapsed academic
I use assemblage to create contemporary art based on the compositional strategies of Archaic Greek oral-formulaic poetry.
https://charlaynvonsolms.com/link-in-bio
I use assemblage to create contemporary art based on the compositional strategies of Archaic Greek oral-formulaic poetry.
https://charlaynvonsolms.com/link-in-bio
Can anyone account for the whereabouts of @wildobliquities.bsky.social at 7:30 am, August 13, 2025?
December 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Can anyone account for the whereabouts of @wildobliquities.bsky.social at 7:30 am, August 13, 2025?
Compilation of scale studio drawings for assemblage sculptures (from left: Penelope ΑΡΕΤΗ, Kirke ΦΑΙΝΩ, Menelaos ΒΟΑΩ, and Helena ΑΕΘΛΟΝ). Ink, and marker on paper.
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Compilation of scale studio drawings for assemblage sculptures (from left: Penelope ΑΡΕΤΗ, Kirke ΦΑΙΝΩ, Menelaos ΒΟΑΩ, and Helena ΑΕΘΛΟΝ). Ink, and marker on paper.
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
Here's a Curator Rob rampant
December 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's a Curator Rob rampant
Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ, assemblage (fishing buoy, spring calipers, hand-forged calipers, camping stove, light fixture ceiling hook cup, combination square blades, pencil sharpener, tracing wheel, saltshaker, gate valve head, toast rack parts, pepper grinder, wood, paint).
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ, assemblage (fishing buoy, spring calipers, hand-forged calipers, camping stove, light fixture ceiling hook cup, combination square blades, pencil sharpener, tracing wheel, saltshaker, gate valve head, toast rack parts, pepper grinder, wood, paint).
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #sculpture
Astute as always. What does not translate well on this medium is that each of these sculptures is part of a set - an element within a system - where each work echoes aspects of the others. This particular series posits the viewer as a wandering 'composer' whose interpretation creates a new poem.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Astute as always. What does not translate well on this medium is that each of these sculptures is part of a set - an element within a system - where each work echoes aspects of the others. This particular series posits the viewer as a wandering 'composer' whose interpretation creates a new poem.
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
December 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
December 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"Eris whose fury never tires, sister and friend of manslaughtering Arēs, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she raises her head to the sky ... She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them."
(Iliad.4.440-445)
(Iliad.4.440-445)
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Eris whose fury never tires, sister and friend of manslaughtering Arēs, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she raises her head to the sky ... She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them."
(Iliad.4.440-445)
(Iliad.4.440-445)
"Those, again, of Tricca and the stony region of Ithome,
and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos,
these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios,
skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon."
(Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)
and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos,
these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios,
skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon."
(Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Those, again, of Tricca and the stony region of Ithome,
and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos,
these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios,
skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon."
(Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)
and they that held Oikhalia, the city of Oikhalian Eurytos,
these were commanded by the two sons of Asklepios,
skilled in the art of healing, Podaleirios and Makhaon."
(Entry 25, Catalogue of Ships, Iliad)
I though you lot only yodeled when you're up in the mountains eating cheese fondue.
December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I though you lot only yodeled when you're up in the mountains eating cheese fondue.
Does this count?
December 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Does this count?
If you're going to own a signed first edition, this is the inscription you want it to have:
December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you're going to own a signed first edition, this is the inscription you want it to have:
An embryonic Polyhymnia.
*Please, please, please may she prove to be a more co-operative subject than her sister Melpomene (who was an absolute nightmare diva attention-seeking maniac)
*Please, please, please may she prove to be a more co-operative subject than her sister Melpomene (who was an absolute nightmare diva attention-seeking maniac)
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
An embryonic Polyhymnia.
*Please, please, please may she prove to be a more co-operative subject than her sister Melpomene (who was an absolute nightmare diva attention-seeking maniac)
*Please, please, please may she prove to be a more co-operative subject than her sister Melpomene (who was an absolute nightmare diva attention-seeking maniac)
"Too complex, too strange". That's the exact feedback I keep getting 😮.
Maybe I've gone about this all wrong. Instead of looking for an art dealer, I should convince a machine parts dealer to sell my work 🛠️
*added bonus: they would recognize most of the stuff I use 😆
Maybe I've gone about this all wrong. Instead of looking for an art dealer, I should convince a machine parts dealer to sell my work 🛠️
*added bonus: they would recognize most of the stuff I use 😆
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Too complex, too strange". That's the exact feedback I keep getting 😮.
Maybe I've gone about this all wrong. Instead of looking for an art dealer, I should convince a machine parts dealer to sell my work 🛠️
*added bonus: they would recognize most of the stuff I use 😆
Maybe I've gone about this all wrong. Instead of looking for an art dealer, I should convince a machine parts dealer to sell my work 🛠️
*added bonus: they would recognize most of the stuff I use 😆
"who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans?
But their number I could not tell nor name
(not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths
and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me)
if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer
the daughters, did not remind me"
But their number I could not tell nor name
(not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths
and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me)
if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer
the daughters, did not remind me"
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans?
But their number I could not tell nor name
(not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths
and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me)
if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer
the daughters, did not remind me"
But their number I could not tell nor name
(not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths
and a voice that was unbreaking, and if a heart of bronze were within me)
if the Muses of Olympus, of Zeus the aegis-bearer
the daughters, did not remind me"
In that case, count me in. Here's my version of her:
"Melpomene Act" (2025), assemblage
"Melpomene Act" (2025), assemblage
December 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In that case, count me in. Here's my version of her:
"Melpomene Act" (2025), assemblage
"Melpomene Act" (2025), assemblage
Composite portrait of four generations of Princes of Orange by Willem van Honthorst, 1662
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Composite portrait of four generations of Princes of Orange by Willem van Honthorst, 1662
Um, count me out. This is their leader. The sight of him put the dread and fear of the palace upon all the nations under heaven. We have heard the reports of him making people stand in holes and tremble in anguish.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Um, count me out. This is their leader. The sight of him put the dread and fear of the palace upon all the nations under heaven. We have heard the reports of him making people stand in holes and tremble in anguish.
But, dogfish are small, sleek and hunt in packs, while Huxley is a large moplike trip hazard.
December 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
But, dogfish are small, sleek and hunt in packs, while Huxley is a large moplike trip hazard.
