CRAFTED by Cheryl Penn...gentle threads, sharp pins and the sweet smell of linseed oil

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

It begins coming from an asemic-ZALOP envelope and it just has to be good!

Deep and dark, with warm brown tones and asemic "lace" with gentle threads from stitches.

What mystery is that "shadow" amongst the pages?

Open to ORGANIC: more asemic lace and earth auburn tones spread on with bold wide strokes 

INDUSTRIAL: with glimmers of metal piercing those warm tones, disrupting the calm...

Opening full fold to reveal zig-zag zalop stitches and a message, oh, so true:

"Copying Haptic Renders It Unhaptic"! For what you see here in these scanned images

on this blog, is not HAPTIC for you...ah, but as I hold this piece, feel-the-art and textures, 

smell the oil paints, hear the flip of the papers...for me, it is very HAPTIC!

...because by folding and unfolding, by "interfering"..I make Haptic Happen!

ouch! sharp pins, cold steel...thesis/antithesis...opening it full fold, revealing the impact:

CRAFTED! Beautifully and dynamically!

A work of art in deep tones from the South Africa Connection!

"FEEL-the -ART"! ...unless

Many thanks, Cheryl. This is an ORGANIC.... CRAFTED ....GEM!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

too early in the Greek morning for trout...even at the Neiva river...I'm "flux"ed from the weekend. 

[De Villo Sloan]

[De Villo Sloan]

Bruno, you brought A LOT too it. It's not exactly the stream of consciousness - more like a river with unexpected turns and sudden plunges into the rapids. Everything is in flux.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

and the dishes from Sunday dinner...

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

"Copying Haptic makes the piece Unhaptic", taking the clue from Cheryl. It is often stated when we photopgraph or scan and try to blog mail art received: "it doesn't do it justice", "Wish I could scan it better". "You can't get it in this scan..."etc. Above, in the photos, we can at least SEE the images of the art. But as we now know that "haptic" evokes the other senses as well, we really have here "unhaptic" art.

What I HAVE in my hands, feeling-the-art, its textures,its aroma, its sound, cannot be "copied" here at all. I HAVE Cheryl beautiful HAPTIC Art...and this is the most I can do to want to share it with you. And it is all about sharing... the art...and the thoughtful / thought provoking discussion that is the art, too.

Good things being talked about here...it makes one want to get to the library...(or google!), gotta do some research...

 

[cheryl penn]

oooo dusting Bruno - the search for meaning falls outside the parameters of time :-))

[cheryl penn]

I'll need - what do you call them in  America - an Aide??? :-)))

[De Villo Sloan]

Ok Cheryl, another big thing is didactic and non-didactic. You are clearly didactic. And that's cool too. Many artists are and they provide valuable points of view. In that spirit - I give the remainder of my time and yield the floor to The Mail-Art Senator from South Africa!!!

[cheryl penn]

One more thing while I have the floor :-) - no content with intent - we enter the invasive world of mediocrity where "I dont know, I just felt like it" rules as king.

[cheryl penn]

ok - one thing I can say right now - a maxim I AWAYS use - content with intent. Unless we're unconscious (even when we're awake!) EVERYTHING we do has intent - we eat to live, we breathe to live, we love to feel alive - there is reason if one is 'aware'.  Why not in art?  I have always thought of theoretical approaches as just the SPRINGBOARD to greater things, never an end in themselves.  Did I INTEND the reader to access The Island of Dr Moreau??? In the first work (this is a derivative) - most definitely!! In this, the reference was for sure more obscure.  Bruno - I too FAR prefer  more informal telling ABOUT the work - not a telling of the MEANING of the work - that for sure is for the viewer - I think I'm doing circles too :-))