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,...
CURRENT PROJECTS
"In the Trenches" collaboration with Mary C. Leto15" x 12.5" x 3.25" artist's book (edition of 3) on handmade paper, printing and multi mediadepicting the dead babies buried on Hart Island, NYCinspired by the Hart Island Potter's Field and the work of Melinda...
year: 2008
Sometimes you just sit and sit and hope for inspiration. This year I could not seem to put together a real comprehensive plan. Jake had made this fish linoleum block earlier in the year. I liked it a lot. Hmmm, what could I do with it? I was thinking of old school...
year: 2007
This year’s greeting begins with an official wren and mistletoe theme. I thought that I would put together a card that had an vintage image of “picking” mistletoe, along with a linoleum block that Jake had carved of the wren. I read that in some cases the wrenboys...
flopsie revisited
friday: so i was feeling like i was doing my collage of flopsie's letter a disservice to use elements that were not of the period and i made four new designs using only period based ephemera. for the text i used a book that was published in 1888, from a story called...
george and flopsie
thursday: while i was thinking of a new idea to use up some of the ephemeria, i thought about all these letters that i have. i hesitantly took one out of the mix and ripped it up. i am now sad that i did this because it's from a collection of 95 handwritten letters...
søket etter nancy drew
thursday: søket etter nancy drew, the search for nancy drew. yesterday i found i had an old nancy drew mystery, but in norwegian. i thought of what nancy might have been like as a girl, and dug through my photos to find some old images. i drew these from the photos,...
as it is written
monday: i spent most of the day working on these collages. i did a series of 12 drawings on the ipad, based on collected photos. then i pulled pages from an old handwriting analysis course book and printed the images onto the pages. i added wallpaper swatches for...
drawn to food
jacob and i have been doing a food blog, we draw ingredients and finished dishes of foods we make to help us keep track of our recipes and calories. jacob started the drawings, so i continued mine in his style. we have invited kyria, my granddaughter, to join in, and...
national parks
wednesday: after talking to my sister-in-law about ken burns new series "the national parks" i knew i had some maps of them. i put these together with some text from an old children's reader that talks about birds and dogs and bears. i added the wildlife conservation...
abbreviated
wednesday: i spent most of the day making collages. i could have stopped earlier, but i was motivated by the fact that i wanted to finish listening to my book on audio, the eighth detective. A thrilling, wildly inventive nesting doll of a mystery, in which a young...
ivanhoe and dagwood
wednesday: an american icon vs a very english one. in our american tale of hero we have dagwood bumstead, disowned by his wealthy family because he fell in love with blondie, a flapper. Protagonist Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood...
glass negative
sunday: while i was on the library of congress website i also came across this woman, from the collection of c. m. bell, late 1800s. i will need to start a digital portrait collection soon.
images
sunday: today i wanted to represent an asian woman in the fragments collection, but i don't have any in my old photos box. so i went online to library of congress. i also painted this woman.
a strange story
friday: how do you make things out of all disparate parts? i have so much paper, old books, magazines and ephemera. it would be nice to use them up. but of course before i do that, i have to look at images on the internet (really i am making an excuse to waste some...
bullish
monday: what does a bunch of bulls and a few cocks represent? my goal was to depict greed, corporate power, a liar for a president and the downfall of democracy. i used these vintage images and printed them on a deed that was given to me by mary leto. there were about...