Breaking up without breaking - from Cheryl Penn

[Marie Wintzer]

 

You might have seen similar pieces by Cheryl on IUOMA blogs all around the world, but the thing is, each of those booklets is a truly unique piece of art. An exploration deep into the flow of ideas, an idea in its own right.

 

 

 

The book contains photographs of a large painting at various stages of the process, and a "real life" piece of it, materializing an idea that was birthed way upstream of today, framing it into the present. A strange feeling of literally holding a piece of idea in my hands.

 

 

The flow of this particular idea follows the line that goes from constructing, layering, building up, to de-constructing, breaking up, dissecting out. Something has been created with the purpose of being dismantled.
The painting shouts out "don't break me please", but its existence solely relies on fragmentation (although on one of Cheryl's pictures the word Don't is lying in the shadow so that the painting seems to be begging to be broken).
Which made me think, can one break up without breaking?

 

 

Find a way through. I am thrilled the piece I got contains the wonderful word FIND. Layered onto a map. This to me is an indication that the process of breaking up does not end here, with this piece of painting. There is more in it and more to it, but a different person is now taking over. Up to the recipient to dig deeper and continue with the fragmentation and the (re)search. And forward in the flow of ideas, perhaps the branching of a small-new river from a much larger one?
Thank you for this fab 1/28, Cheryl! I certainly would like to have as many "ideas whose time has come" as you do! But I know from experience that your ideas always lead to other ideas. Inspiration, I think. So, thank you!!

 

 

PS* unnecessary quote of the day from Unknown: A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

It has been a reality for a very long time.  Isn't that freedom of choice, though?  I hate the idea myself, but would you want to take the option away from artists who choose to sell their artistic idea?  It may make some of the atmosphere ugly for you or me, but we are free not to sell anything if we don't want to, yes?

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

since everyone around here knows stamps, they probably make a good analogy:

 

someone creates a stamp,

carving it out of rubber.

then begins using it on their outgoing mail.

a second person sees the imprint of the stamp

and decides to contact the stamp-maker

and buy the stamp. then they start making

imprints with the stamp for a fee for people.

you pay them X dollars, and they set the stamp in ink,

and stamp out a print of it for you.

but not just that, they give you a slip of paper,

a legal disclaimer, saying you are not allowed

to copy that stamp you purchased.

not even drawing it freehand,

taking a picture of it is also forbidden.

the abstract notion of that stamp

belongs to them. they own the conception of it.

 

this is the world of IP, "intellectual property."

it is quite absurd, but a reality nonetheless.

people do this, and get away with it. :-(

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

[cheryl penn]

OWNING the MAKING goes without saying!!!!!!

Marie :-))) - YAY! I'm parched - its a desert out here :-) X

[Marie Wintzer]

Glad to see the party is still going on :-))) help yourself with drinks, I'll be back with more canapés....

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

yes, but what DVS is talking about is OWNING the MAKING!!!

[cheryl penn]

MAKING the art is for me the fantastic, not the owning :-) X

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

more thinking on this has brought me to consider something else;

something of a mixture of topics here i think.

 

the fact that although they want to "buy the idea,"

they will never be able to buy the art, or the idea of the art,

because, a businessman cannot see the art,

cannot feel the art, cannot experience the beauty of the art.

much as a seeing person cannot pay a blind person

for the beauty of a bird's song in the early hours of the morning;

the simple fact that they have treated the art, or its conception

as a commodity has changed the art by its perception.

once a price tag, even just a perceived price tag touches a thing;

even a conception of a thing; it is no longer art,

unless your art is the art of buying and selling.

 

just some food for thought while i was making breakfast.

but now i have to go eat. ;-D

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

[cheryl penn]

Thor not Their.