by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
The dominoes were placed in the grate by some anonymous hand. We don’t know if they were old when they were placed there, or if they got old sitting in the grate for over 40 or 50 years. When Mary found them they looked almost burnt, the white paint on the...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
We spent a few hours today getting some prints done for my husband, Jacob (who is also an artist). Our friend, Mary C. Leto, will be taking a booth at In the Spirit, the Art and Craft of Hand Papermaking, sponsored by Friends of Dard Hunter, in Atlanta. She kindly...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
I love the feel of clay and the way you can manipulate it into a three dimensional space. I have missed that feeling and so signed myself into an open studio space. Most of the people in the class are potters on the wheel with the exception of one man and myself. I...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
MAKING POST CARDSPart of the “job” of making art is also the marketing of it. There are many ways to get your work on the internet and do some self promotion. For the portraits of ageism I decided to do a simple glossy post card. There are so many coffee...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
by Patricia Sahertian | Sep 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
