by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 6, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
thursday: so thinking of periods, i have always been weirdly drawn to medical illustrations. i found these gynecological ones on archive.org and printed them over layers of old italian lesson books, italianite design and maps of rome. i wanted to express the control...
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 21, 2020 | collaboration
when we redid the laundry room there was a weird area over the sink where the paint did not stick. it bubbled up and peeled off. today jake and i created some heads from an old photo that i had collected and we pasted it up in the spot. now i love...
