Blog post undate for Katerina Nikoltsou - Like the Circles of Your Mind

[cheryl penn]

Mail Art Received Third Week of February 2011

This I think is one of my all time favorite pieces from excellent mail art friend Katerina.  The paint quality is fantastic - high gloss on white interspersed with Katerina's now signature tracing paper. 

My second favorite set of lyrics in the whole world - well, for today that is - as a woman, Katerina knows we are FULLY entitled to change our minds at ANY given second :-)

Like a tunnel that you follow

To a tunnel of its own

Down a hollow to a cavern

Where the sun has never shone

Like a door that keeps revolving

In a half forgotten dream.

You KNOW I was listening to this when I made all those envelopes - right?? Now I'm going to make some more - this time inspired by YOU.  I LOVE it - thank you Katerina :-)

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This piece of mail arrived together with all the others I blogged - but - I saved the best till last :-)

Katerina sent a beautiful boekie of palimpsestic-like pages, made with tracing paper, collage, bold orange textured paper and ephemera.  Although not a palimpsest in the true sense of the word (to rub away),  beautiful images are created by SEEING THROUGH to the other side (yes you know my expression!)

an exploration of the essence of transparency - a compound image.The turning of the nearly transparent pages gives them different backgrounds and permutations of image. A negative and a positive image - there is a residual concept in the use of these materials - thank you Katerina - an EXCELLENT contribution to The World is a Town Project - o I'm smiling - have been for quite a while - and especially now as I revisit this work - thank you.

 

Oh, its been an uptight few days what with loosing important things, including Horizontal Alex. :-( BUT Katerina came to the rescue (AS USUAL) and her haptic boekie arrived :-)

It was in one of her very recognizable envelopes, wrapped in tissue with - is it O Sweet Basil, or Run out of Thyme?

No thorns and nasties with this one - THANK YOU Katerina - AND for coming to Alex's rescue - where would we all be without you???

Mail Art received 17th November 2010

Katerina's Upright Alex arrived. He was Uptight because he was soggy! Rain makes havoc of invasions - ask History!

I dried him off under a warm wind, wiped his tears, ironed his wrinkles and told him not to worry - Mom Katerina said she had made him again - and he wouldn't be Upr(T)ight he would be horizontal, with a hinge! Alex is happy again :-)

Last week I received a beautiful envelope from Katerina. (20th October 2010)

The envelope was printed bright sky blue, in contrast to the redness of the autumn card inside. Spring skies in Autumn days.

I can sense the migration of birds to new lands - the swallows leaving Europe and coming towards Africa - this is beautifully captured in this print. With the building of the new King Shaka airport in La Mercy Durban, all bird watchers are worried about the plight of the marsh swallows. They fly from Europe in their millions to nest in the marshy grounds which lie to the south of the airport. They rise at about 4 to feed and fly, so authorities SAY that there are no flights from 4 - 6pm??? An international airport??? The red sticker? Here it means 'sold' when on an art work - I'm sold Katerina - thank you!

[De Villo Sloan]

vintage crown windmills o-so-hollywood with da shades

[cheryl penn]

Ok - great - I'm on it  :-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

I'm in...to make yet another series of little boekies of this melody...(that is not leaving the circles of my mind yet!)

Get us together, Cheryl! ;-)

[cheryl penn]

Ok - so how about everyone who is interested in this song makes a limited edition booklet (same as Crimson Giant format, and same as Katerina has made and we swop?? IF you would like too I will ask Lauriana and Les too???

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Thank you dear friends. "the Thomas Crown Affair", the first with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, is an all-time favorite of mine...from the years of college and grad studies, when American cinema was so "artsy" in its titles and innovative with photography. Love Legrand music, anytime, any where. And I never saw the "new version", so can't compare.

I painted and printed up that batch of papers some weeks ago, and when I saw Cheryl's "circle of my mind", I knew I just had to make a few boekies with the painted papers for the SA connection! 'Glad you like them, they are special words for me, too.

[Marie Wintzer]

Goo-Goo eyes at this! Wow...

[De Villo Sloan]

TY - I thought the Sting remake of the song was, as you say, Fab. The second film version is an art crime, the first a bank robbery. The Steve McQueen version is from the 60s or 70s, but I always thought it should be taken more seriously as a classic. In Russo/Brosnan you don't get the whole relationship thing. The first is just an amazing psychological study. Oh - I did a rant about this on the Lesley Frasier blog too. It really struck a chord, so to speak.

[cheryl penn]

LOVED the Thomas Crown Affair - only saw the second one with Rene Russo (gorgeous!) and Pierce Brosnan - Sting did Circles of your mind - it is FABULOUS - in fact ALL that music was great - loved the jazzy piece where they were replacing the painting - the men in bowler hats Magritte style :-) Number 1 Katerina - That would be Shaun Phillips :-) Rod not Enid - what are you sending? I could do with 150 million years :-)

[Rod Summers / VEC]

Hmmmm... I surely could not compete with the beautiful works that Katerine has sent you.... so, as you enjoy a good story, I'll send you some of what I do best.

rod not enid

[De Villo Sloan]

Wow. hate to admit it but one of my all-time favorite lyrics too. It was originally used in the film "The Thomas Crown Affair," not the more recent but the original with Steve McQueen - one of the more fascinating studies of human relationships I've ever seen.