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IN THE TRENCHES MARY’S PAGES
In creating this page Mary wanted to show how the babies at Hart Island really had no place for someone to see where they were buried. She writes on the tissue-paper, thin "ghost" of a tombstone "NO story, NO obituary, NO service, NO headstone, NO marker, NO visitors,...
IN THE TRENCHES PAGES 11 & 12
Each trench can contain 1000 bodies, so to indicate the numbers I stacked the cutout pages on top of one another and stamped a baby's head on the top of each. Using an old children's primer for the pages I thought that these children never had a chance to grow up, to...
NOOKS AND CRANNIES AT THE LIBRARY
Saw the exhibit called Nooks and Crannies yesterday at the Phoenix Public Library (Burton Barr) showing the paintings of Barbara Kemp Cowlin. They include a lot of familiar corners to us living here, the spaces from the Phoenix Art Museum. In her own words Barbara...
COFFEE GROUNDS AFFIRMATION
If you look close you can see two figures, each carrying a book under their arm walking to the right.
IN THE TRENCHES MARY’S PAGES
Mary sent me some photos by email of what she has worked on. I am amazed and awed by her work. When ever I see what she has done it inspires me to work even harder. She is truly one of my muses and an incredibly talented artist.She has created a series of trenches...
IN THE TRENCHES PAGES 7, 8, 9 & 10
Mary and I decided that the book needed to have some facing pages that go together along with the individual pages we are creating. That made me think that maybe a line up of baby feet with toe tags would be a good idea for that, but I wasn't sure how I would...
EXHIBIT NO. NINE
Last night we had another fine get together of art and eating. By fortunate coincidence my granddaughter happened to be here and she partakes in the event whole heartedly. Her oil pastel, a still life of corks, was amazing. At the end of the evening when we read our...
IN THE TRENCHES PAGES 3, 4, 5 & 6
This week I worked on the next set of pages for the artist book IN THE TRENCHES, Hart Island, New York that I am collaborating on with Mary C. Leto. I wish she could be here with me so that I can ask her if she likes this or that element as I am putting the pieces...
ROOTS OF CHAINS
Last night my friends Margaret, Lisa and Todd came over to crochet some chains for the Mother Tree Project. It was a very relaxing evening. We had some cheeses that Todd brought over, a nice mixture from a soft ripened crème to a deep rich orange French cheddar. I...
IN THE TRENCHES PAGES 1 & 2
After making the paper with Mary C. Leto in her Moon Tide Paper studio in South Carolina I was determined to come home and make all the pages for this book immediately. Well, that was at the end of April. Sometimes I get sidetracked by work, other times by other...
EXHIBIT NO. EIGHT
The past Friday we held our almost bimonthly "art night" where a few friends come over and we eat a shared meal and then get creative. This time I wanted to work on a piece for the project "Domino Mystery". This one is 6"x6". (Mary and I have not decided quite what...
YARNS FOR THE MOTHER TREE
I will be inviting over a group of friends next week to start the chains for the "Mother Tree Project" by artist Helen Hiebert. We are using only natural fibers in earth tones as requested by the artist. These are a sampling of the yarns I purchased made up of hemp,...