Still Life Structures
June 3, 2009 by Janice
We have a snail mail art project just beginning . I have something like 45 postcards to send out to artists and non artists from all over the world. Yep. That’s a lot. Here’s my idea for what I am going to do:
Since this started on Twitter, thanks to @Art_News, and these are part of the Across the Tracks Blues Series that I am developing now, I am using these post still life photos. See up there, in the little slide show.
What does that mean?
It means that I will take the basic lines found in them and do 45 drawings from that. Like some of the thumbnails, you’ve seen me show here. That’s all.
And get it? They will truly be “post ” cards. (Artist just realized that and is cracking her self up, well she hasn’t had coffee yet so give her a break.)
Will I leave it at that?
No. Across the Tracks Blues is about innovation and integration. And I am making that up as I go along so nope. I’ll play. And I am very excited about that. So they will become little paintings/drawings. Maybe collages. Dunno yet. But it’s important to make a decision about what part of me I am going to send.
For me, it’s a sense of self, a sense of place, and a sense of time. I get to play right in those in between spaces that I like so much. I couldn’t be happier if I were strapping on my boots and heading out to some barrier island. Hm, well not quite the same, but same in a different way.
It’s a chance for me to explore.
The bulk of my cards are going to the original artists’ group that signed up on Twitter. A dozen of them though are going out to a special group of people that are doing an ad hoc exchange with me. Some of them are not artists, but all of them are creative and willing to explore too. So I am clearing space on my refrigerator door for when everything starts coming in in July. ..Or maybe that shelf over my desk…or that wall I look at all the time…
It’s going to be fun. And the stamps will be cool and I get to strap those metaphorical boots on and spread the moments of discovery around.
Now that IS fun.
And don’t you love to play with your work?
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Janice,
What a cool sneak peek! I am nearly ready to go on our little group project (there’s an email coming, right?), and just thinking like the “real” artist I sometimes-but-not-often-enough am has been so envigorating.
Very psyched to see how yours turns out. Happy, happy…
Regards,
Kelly
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… invigorating…
Ah, well.
Kelly’s last blog post..Inspiration Points: So That’s What’s Up With Her!
It IS invigorating… and yes, there is an email coming as soon as the address list is complete.
Very cool project. And you plan makes it seem doable. I was wondering about that number ‘45 or so’. Seemed like a big thing to bite off.
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Hi Fred,
LOL “45 or so” could be a big number. It isn’t small that’s for sure. But I have a plan and a thing…nothing better than knowing a trick or two…now can I pull it off?
There’s the question…