by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 10, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 4, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 1, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 28, 2020 | collage
friday: this is the second series that i have done using documents that were given to me about a woman named magdolna ven, who was born in hungary. this time i wanted to repeat the use of roses, but instead of adding maps as previously, i used european paintings from...
