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THE TOMBS
Vintage bottles, HO scale prisoners and guards, hand made skulls and bones along with some fake dirt compromise this series of Hart Island related work. In the 19th century two events took place in the city of New York. One was the creation of the city's largest...
MARK TWAIN’S INDECENT EXPOSURE
A mere stroke of the awl, collage on paper, 6 x 4 inchesOur neighborhood book club decided to read Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain as the next selection. I know, really? That's what I thought. But, oh, what a great treasure trove of material there was to be found that...
PHOSPHORUS AS ART: THE CHALLENGE MET
a matter of highest importance, collage on paper, 5 x 3.5 inchesThe challenge of getting this project done to meet the deadline of January 1, 2011 has been accomplished, with just hours to spare. There was a great deal of thinking about how I would interpret the idea...
WINTER GREETINGS
chair series, winter greetings, collage on index card, 2010This year I decided to not think too much about my winter greeting cards. They have a bit of humor behind them and I hope that people will find them amusing. Each one is an individual collage, and no two are...
PHOSPHORUS AS ART: THE CHALLENGE
I have just met with a group of science women. They study the budget of phosphorus (P) in the city of Phoenix. Not a monetary budget, but the amount of P that comes into and flows out of the city. I was quite fascinated by the flow of this important element, and quite...
CUPS
the cup in the dining room, bargemon, colored pencil on paperthe cup in the kitchen, bargemon, ipad app draw freeWe have been away for almost a month. Our first stop was Washington, DC, then Long Island... across the ocean to a little village in the Var region of...
WORK IN PROGRESS PART THREE
hundreds of bodiesWhen I try to imagine the hundreds, thousands of bodies at Hart Island, I picture figure upon figure buried there. So using some unpainted HO figures I have encapsulated them in an glass jars to represent the ground where they are placed. Although in...
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH, CW POST, LI, NY
Hussey, collage on photograph, 4x6 inchesCutting it close to the deadline, as usual, I have finished my postcard for the CW Post ABAD. The exhibition will be opened November 1–5, 2010. This show will include among its participants Yoko Ono. I am honored to be in her...
CAFE AU LAIT
This is my venture into the world of iPad apps. "Brushes" lets you do a lot less than Photoshop, but the key is that with Brushes, your pallette and canvas are totally portable... I never thought much about drawing electronically, but if David Hockney does it, well,...
BOOK IS BOUND
Now to fill it.
COPTIC BOOK BINDING
I am learning how to bind a book using the coptic technique. My friend Elizabeth will be teaching a workshop at uac and we are trying some of the processes together beforehand. It was a bit awkward for me at first, but soon I got the hang of the sewing and enjoyed the...
WORK IN PROGRESS PART TWO
Using the glue base was a good idea, they did keep standing and it made it easier to drop them into the bottle... more to come.Buried on Hart Island November 1898Robert Kirschner age 35Cause of death: Illumination Gas at 206 Fifth Street, NYC, NYRobert Kirschner...