Advanced Readers Copies and Cardboard Boxes
February 5, 2010 by Janice
Sumi Ink, Herbs de Provence, Fireside Pies and Newspaper, Janice Cartier, February 2010
Advanced Reader Copies, Janice Cartier, February 2010
Cardboard Boxes, newspapers, Advanced Readers Copies? …or “found materials”? Just a few things that need to be recycled or traded, but they offer up other possibilities to the inquiring artistic mind.
Like, hm… that little box is really nice white bristol board on the inside, and that Fireside Pie box is a nice thickness of corrugated cardboard, malleable yet strong. And that newspaper, well, we saw what I am doing with newspaper at the moment. And those books…dare I cut them up? Or paint in them? Play with images and text? Perhaps turn them into art objets as well, experiment?
Look like art materials to me.
The artist smiles.
As Fats Waller says, ” One never knows do one? ”
Hm…
Can I really cut up a book?
Can I cut into its pages?
Or turn it in to something else, embed its phrases into other places?
Or can I create a little world inside that little box?
And that pie box…what could that become?
Do I want to play in three dimensions?
All I know is…
They must go…
Or open up another door,
Become a path to play on.
Become, “What ifs”
The artist smiles again.
Kind of an artist’s favorite question.
Naughty Margaritas? Or brandy at five? It’s Friday after all. And I think we’ve earned it.
( Note: In case anyone has a “she’s going to kill the puppies” response to cutting up/drawing/painting in these ARCs…email me if you collect…)
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Re-use and re-purpose rather than trash and burn is the greatest kind of flattery! Live on old junk in new eclectic forms.
Fred,
LOL…cardboard is one of those less celebrated but indispensable artists’ thinking tools… I thought you might get this.