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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 26, 2020 | collage, corona virus series, stamps
wednesday: we keep hearing about russian interference in the media. i wonder why can’t something be done about this? if we knew this was happening in the last election, why is it still an issue? here’s my response. old russian language book, a couple of...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 24, 2020 | collage
monday: using an ad from the stanley brush company of the 1930s we can see what was being sold to women and how they were made to feel they needed all these products. i used blue card stock as the background and mod podge glue for these. i need more glue sticks. view...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 24, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
monday: i worked on this series last week, starting with found magazine article on mental illness in the 1950s. it made me think how women were portrayed in that era and how behind the scenes, at home, in treatment and in hospitals there was so much abuse. view...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 12, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
wednesday: yesterday i spent the afternoon cutting up this old book from new zealand published in 1932 called children in the summerland. it’s by a psychic who believes that you don’t have to worry about your dead children’s clothes in summerland...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 7, 2020 | collage, corona virus series
friday: thumbing though old history text books, this one from 1958, you find a lot of lies. stories told from the patriarchal, racist and misogynistic point of view. i used a story of the first thanksgiving, that in itself a myth, using painting of ships from england,...
