Cheryl Penn How Text Lies from South Africa

[Ruth Schowalter]

Cheryl Penn communicates in a mysterious way, perhaps asking the viewer of her image to "read" it based on the knowledge background he/she brings to it. Combining torn text, a photo of text, sewing in red zig zag lines, she stamps the message: How Text Lies.

Overall her work is engaging, complex, and challenging. The work I show here came in a brightly painted envelop with Ruud Janssen's "zalop" on it. In addition, Cheryl treated me to an entire string of South African fish stamps (six of them)!

 

Thanks CP!  Hallelujah!

[Marie Wintzer]

Got mine today, yeeeeey!

Text lies/lies

[Ruth Schowalter]

Yes the physical and intellectual dimensions! CP, I will be getting something in the mail to you soon and will let you know when I mail it! Again, thanks for such a TERRIFIC work! I am thrilled!

[cheryl penn]

Thanks Ruth and Momkat - how text lies? Complex for sure - Physically on the page and through our inability to trust our perceptions of interpretation. And then again - our impotence to sometimes communicate correctly through our personal use of language. How text lies in peace treaties - well lets not go there :-) X

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Oh, this is great, Cheryl! Is it a sequel to mine? Maybe we can collect all the "TEXT" and it form a book?

Mysteriou segments...we wanting clues to its "meaning". Well, maybe its context? Or its inspiration...

p.s. Always loooove those fishies! xx