David Stafford's Blog – October 2013 Archive (3)

Jay Block and the Space Raiders

Jay sent me this space cadet meets Southwestern basket mash up. There's no way he could know this but it just so happens that I have been raiding a comic book site called Comics Plus and trundling home like a overburdened bumble bee with all these wonderful comic book downloads (what a horrid word. It sounds like someone taking a shit). The…

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Added by David Stafford on October 8, 2013 at 12:45am — 4 Comments

Marie Wintzer Collection

Marie's work does not always lend itself to the scanner and this piece is particularly delicate. It's like trying to scan a dragon fly in flight. I'm speaking of the upper left quadrant here. It's a primitive kaleidoscope with images pasted on different layers of transparent film that you rotate. It's what they used before lenses came into view. Sorry if my scan…

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Added by David Stafford on October 7, 2013 at 11:35pm — 5 Comments

Stephanie Blake

I received this from Stephanie a couple of days ago but it wasn't until just now that I realized this piece contained something for the neglected sense of smell. Stephanie's Luck pieces according to the ArtForum article I read are "seemingly random images thrown together like coins in an I Ching reading but revealing, in the end, the path forward." Let's just…

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Added by David Stafford on October 7, 2013 at 10:00pm — 5 Comments

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