by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 5, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
wednesday: looking for collage elements, i came across these period chairs, which made me think of menstruation. then i was wondering what goes with that? i have this old book from norway about catholic churches. i was telling my daughter about my thought process and...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jul 31, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
friday: last night i collected a few pages from an old child’s primer from 1938. i looked at them over and over for ideas to come to me about how i could make them tell some kind of story. it came to me today to take away their eyes and mouths. i collaged them...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jul 30, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
thursday: corona virus still keeping us isolated. rummaging through my resources i came across some envelopes from 1938: a correspondence to Mr. Harry Jepson in Wolf Creek Montana, from CT Peterson c/o Alexander Pearson in Chicago Illinois, and an unknown person from...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jul 13, 2020 | corona virus series, video
I am experimenting with an app that can make photos talk called my talking pet. i put a painting into the app and then played the dialogue from a sherlock holmes movie from the 1950s. it features inspector lestrade and the husband of the murderer. i recorded each line...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jul 7, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
tuesday: i have a room full of paper, ephemera, photographs and i need to keep working with them. so today i took a book off the shelf called A Dos Negros and decided to use the pages, both text and images, for a new series of collages. it’s all in portuguese,...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jul 6, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
monday: randomly selected photographs with applied stamps. funny thing, the image with queen elizabeth and a group of other people, well, believe it or not, i did not look at the captions before placing this stamp on her head, and it turns out her name is...
