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Things are looking up, and there is beauty everywhere! 🩷💚💛⬆️
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“A person who works with their hands is a laborer. A person who works with their hands and their brain is a craftsman. A person who works with their hands, their brain, and their heart is an artist”. - Marco Pierre White 💚🤍🙌
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“Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.”
— Le Corbusier 💛🩵🤍

#fluting
#architecturaldetail
#artdeco
#miamibeacharchitecture
#miamicolortheory
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« Ceci n’est pas une pipe. » — René Magritte 🩵🤍💛🤍🩷

#renemagritte #conceptualart #minimalism #practiceofseeing #miamicolortheory
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“You were only waiting for this moment to arise.”
— The Beatles, Blackbird (1968)

Sometimes, all you have to do is look up. 

Includes Live Photos #shotoniphone 

#blackbird
#lookup
#practiceofseeing
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“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
— W. Clement Stone 💚🖤🤍💙❤️

I included a hyper lapse and a what my camera roll looks like 😊

#miamicolortheory
#practiceofseeing
#geometriccomposition
#colorrelationships
#minimalphotography
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🩷💛🩵💚🤍🌴⚫️

📍 The Drake
1460 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Architect: David T. Ellis, 1937

Pastels are simply colors softened with white.

Blue + white = baby blue
Red + white = pink
Yellow + white = butter
Blue + yellow = green
Green + white = mint

In art, value is the lightness or darkness of a color (or hue).
High value = light
Low value = dark

#artdeco #miamibeacharchitecture #pastel #miamicolortheory #oceandrive
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,” - Simone Weil🧡💙💛❤️

📍 @miamichildrensmuseum 
Architect: @arquitectonicaarchitecture
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Remember- If a potato can become vodka, you can be anything you want to be. 💙🤍😊

📍Southgate Towers, Miami Beach
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More hotels on my Photo Walking tour for Open House Miami with Open House Miami & @miami_cad 
🩷💛🩵🤍💚

Parisian Hotel
1510 Collins Ave, Miami Beach

Geneva Hotel,
1530 Collins Ave, Miami Beach

Thanks to Barbara Baer Capitman and @mdpl1976 for preserving South Beach’s Art Deco, Mimo (Miami Modern) and Mediterranean Revival buildings!

The Miami Beach Architectural District, known as the Art Deco District in South Beach, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1979. It was the nation’s first 20th-century historic district, featuring over 800 preserved buildings—mostly from the 1930s-1940s—concentrated between 5th Street, Ocean Drive, Collins Canal, and Alton Road. 🩵💙🤍🧡🩷

#artdecomiami
#miamibeachartdeco
#decoarchitecture
#openhousemiami 
#photowalk
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Are you ready? “Look Up” by @miamicolortheory continues! Every night from 6-11pm at The Betsy Orb at @thebetsyhotel through the end of February! 🥚🎉

#lookup
#miamicolortheory
#miamibeacharchitecture
#seeingdifferently
#artinpublicspaces

Projected onto a super cool Miami Beach landmark by @shulmandesign

I like to stand in the crowd watching people discover it in real time! 😎🎉
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“Repetition creates rhythm.”
— Robert Delaunay

🖤💙🤍
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One of the stops on my “Open House Miami” (@miami_cad ) Photo Walking Tour is @jessynite “In Your Eyes I Come Alive” at the art deco Avalon Hotel (architect Albert Anis, 1941). Originally presented as part of the City of Miami Beach’s No Vacancy program, the piece uses sunlight to reveal its message through shadow, shifting throughout the day and changing depending on where you stand.

Other pieces of hers in Miami (I love her work!) that I’ve photographed are High Hopes on 71st Street in Little Haiti, (on a @slomo29 mural), “The Sun Is High and So Am I” at Soho Beach House, and “Pleasure” as part of a trilogy inside the Nike Store on Lincoln Road. 

#miamicolortheory #openhousemiami #novacancymiami #jessynite #avalonhotel
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LOOK UP by @miamicolortheory is back at The Betsy Orb at @thebetsyhotel nightly for the rest of February, 6-11pm!
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“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” 🧡💙🤍
— Dorothea Lange

#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #seeingdifferently #miamicolor #architecturedetails
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“I prefer living in color.” - David Hockney ❤️🧡💛🖤🩵🤍

Mural by @jenstark on Espanola way, Miami Beach

#miamicolortheory
#jenstark
#espanolaway
#colorandlight 
#miamibeachart
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“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” — Le Corbusier 🧡💙💛

📍 (Formerly “Surf Hotel”) 
444 Ocean Drive
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1936

#miamicolortheory #henryhohauser #artdecomiami #oceandrive #colorandshadow
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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

Leslie Hotel
Albert Anis, 1937
1244 Ocean Drive

Congress Hotel
Henry Hohauser, 1939
1052 Ocean Drive

Cardozo Hotel
Henry Hohauser, 1939
1300 Ocean Drive

Thank you @mdpl1976 for preserving, promoting, and preserving art deco. 

#henryhohauser #artdeco #miamibeacharchitecture #oceandrive #miamidesignpreservationleague 💛🩷🖤🩵
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Loving the new colors of the Miami Beach parking garage! We have great Parkitecture.

🩷🧡🩵
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“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”— Maya Angelou 🩵💛💚🩷❤️

Happy birthday to my creative & talented daughter Mia! 🎉🩵🎂 LOVE YOU!

And Happy Valentine’s Day to all! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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When glass turns architecture into a painting. The Lincoln Eatery reflected, creating waves of blue, green, and gold.
💙💛🩵🤍

#miamicolortheory #miamiart #architecturedetails #urbanabstraction #reflections
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“Rhythm is a pattern in time.” — George Gershwin

🧡🤍🧡🤍
#rhythm #pattern #graphiclines #designinspiration #miamicolortheory
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So exciting to see Seeing Differently: Miami Color Theory out in the wild at @thebassmoa @pammshop @booksandbooks @dale_zine @wynwoodwallsshopofficial @miamibookfair @habitathyett @glottmanshop @studio_af_miami @nisi_b_home @miamibeachgarden and more.
🩵💛🧡❤️💙🎉🫶🥰

Thank you @trapublishing for bringing this book into the world. 💛🙌

This book is an invitation to notice color, shape, and beauty. The more you look, the more you find.

#miamicolortheory #seeingdifferently #artbook #miamiart #independentbookstores
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‘The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.’ -  Alberto Giacometti 🩷💛💙

#colorandform #abstractcomposition #artanddesign #architecturephotography #miamicolortheory
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An Art Deco eyebrow is a projecting ledge above a window that shades interiors from the sun — a climate-smart solution in the era before air conditioning — and gives Miami Beach Art Deco buildings their sleek, aerodynamic rhythm. In this series, curved forms transform a functional detail into a graphic signature. 🩷🧡🩵 

Thank you @mdpl1976 for helping preserve these gems.

#MiamiBeachArtDeco #ArtDecoArchitecture #MiamiArchitecture #ArchitecturePhotography #MiamiColorTheory
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The moment you decide to pay attention with intention — to step out of your head or away from scrolling on your phone — the world opens up. Even in traffic, bright colors and patterns can turn a frustrating moment into joy. When you train your eyes to look for beauty, you find it everywhere.

This a a Leon Medical transport van.
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“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky ❤️🤍💙

Cold days have the clearest, bluest skies.
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“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” — Leo Tolstoy 💙💛
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🔴🟠🔘🔵🟡

“Design is thinking made visual.” — Saul Bass

Miami Beach Art Deco details

#ArtDecoMiami #MiamiBeachArtDeco #ArchitecturePhotography #DesignDetails
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“The same color evokes different meanings depending on context.” — Josef Albers 🧡💛🩵💙🤍

Every time I photograph this building, it looks different. 

This is the Anamar, an artist/workforce housing building in Collins Park, Miami Beach, designed by @shulmandesign . 

Its palette draws from mangoes, sand, sky, clouds, and water! 🧡💛💙🤍🩵

#shulmandesign #shotoniphone #collinspark #miamibeach #beautyiseverywhere
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“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light.” — George Eastman 💚🧡
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The more you look, the more you find.
(Lyrics by Olivia Dean — Best New Artist Grammy 🏆)
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“These old buildings do not belong to us only; they belonged to our forefathers, and they will belong to our descendants unless we play them false.”
— William Morris, from an SPAB address (1889) 💙🩵💚💛

Six more historic Art Deco gems in Miami Beach:

Lincoln–Drexel Building
1001 Lincoln Road
Architect: Robert Little, 1937

Geneva Hotel
1520 Collins Avenue
Architect: not confirmed, 1953

Imperial Hotel
650 Ocean Drive
Architect: L. Murray Dixon, 1939

Leslie Hotel
1244 Ocean Drive
Architect: Albert Anis, 1937

Lynmar Hotel
735 Collins Avenue
Architect: Donald G. Smith, 1941

Majestic Hotel
660 Ocean Drive
Architect: Albert Anis, 1940

With thanks to @mdpl1976 for preserving Miami Beach Art Deco.

#ArtDeco
#MiamiArtDeco
#OceanDrive
#MiamiArchitecture
#DesignLovers
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“Everything changes, nothing stands still.” — Heraclitus ❤️💙🩷

I’ve shot and posted this wall and shadow so many times and it’s always different. ☺️

Mural by Haas & Hahn: @jeroenkoolhaas @dreurhahn for @goldmanglobalarts / @goldmanproperties at @zakthebaker in #wynwood

#shotoniphone #mural #shadow
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“Lines are the handwriting of space.” — Cy Twombly 🩷🩵🖤🤍

A @punkmetender mural reflected on a parked car, where graphic zigzags bend across the curved surface and even the antenna line curves and distorts.
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“It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.” 💛🌈

Watching people of all ages stop, smile, film, and take selfies with public art here in Miami Beach is a reminder of how art brings people together—something we all need.

Thank you @thebetsyhotel for bringing art into the neighborhood, and @shulmandesign for designing the iconic Orb. Grateful my work will remain on the Orb through February 6.

#PublicArt
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“Historic preservation is not a luxury—it is a necessity.” — James Marston Fitch

Eight Ocean Drive Art Deco hotels:

The Beacon Hotel
720 Ocean Drive
Architect: Harry O. Nelson, 1937

The Breakwater Hotel
940 Ocean Drive
Architect: Anton Skislewicz, 1939

Cardozo Hotel
1300 Ocean Drive
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1939

The Carlyle Hotel
1250 Ocean Drive
Architect: Kiehnel & Elliott, 1941

The Cavalier Hotel
1320 Ocean Drive
Architect: Roy F. France, 1936

The Colony Hotel
736 Ocean Drive
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1935

Congress Hotel
1036 Ocean Drive
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1936

Crescent Hotel
1420 Ocean Drive
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1938

With thanks to @miamidesignpreservationleague for preserving this history.

#ArtDeco
#MiamiArtDeco
#OceanDrive
#MiamiArchitecture
#DesignLovers
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“Color does not add a pleasant quality to design—it reinforces it.” — Pierre Bonnard ❤️🧡💙💚🖤

A mural by Franz Ackermann in Miami, reflected on the roof of a car, where straight bands of color bend.
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“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.” — John Ruskin 🩷🤍🩵💛🧡
A @davidguinnstudio mural, turned just enough that it feels more like a range of mountains of color.
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“Rhythm is repetition with variation.” — William Carlos Williams ❤️🧡💛🩵💚

Mural behind fence by @jessieandkatey at @wynwoodwallsofficial
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