That is what Cheryl calls this splendid book, a book "sort of about current things, and things a little past": …

(Photos are of Vispo Book 2 chapters in so far, and in no particular order, plus Katerina's from Book 1)

Blogjam is over, time for a…

"A Case for Complex Aesthetics" from The School for Complex Aesthetics being the Foundation of Simplicity:…

Have you ever dreamed that you were falling into a pothole? Have you ever imagined what would happen then? No? Well, in this case, Cheryl did it for you. Her Dream series is growing in complexity and twists, and the poetry that comes along with it is ever so unique and sharp and chiseled.

We are still orbiting around Her and The House,…

Genki people, I missed you too much, I couldn't be without you for very long. I received a LOT of mail art last week and I don't know if I will have time to blog it all, but here is a copy-paste from last week's Marie's Mailbox blog. Sorry it is a bit long but I didn't want to post three separate blogs.

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Bound by Life (chopped up and happier now, she says) - from Cheryl Penn…

GOTIJ, INDEED!!  Some lovely women of South Africa have sent me enough art to roll around in!  No; I wouldn't roll around on it!  But it's plentiful enugh to make me feel spoiled!  Some solo work, and some collaborative...  And amazingly it all of it arrived on the same exact day.  It must have been a plot to overwhelm my ocular senses with artistic delight...

First to suffer the blow of my letter opener was a nice thick envelope from Lesley Magwood Fraser:…

Cheryl and I have an ongoing collaboration called The Book of Ether. Maybe you were not around when it all took off, so I will start by quoting Cheryl and her short version of what Ether is: an alternate existence created in the mind due to internet connections. This is only the very short version, of course, and every chapter unveils a little bit more…

You all know Cheryl's Mona Lisa mail-art call. It's got so many fantastic contributions, better than a museum! Cheryl made a boekie with the first four entries when the project was still very young, and I am the happy owner of one of them. Here are a few pictures for you.

Oh, I almost forgot the poem, I couldn't quite figure out wether it was from Keats or…

I knew Cheryl was working on this boekie and it kept me waiting in excitement. I wanted to see what the Arthur Rimbaud Symbolist School of Subtle Aesthetic Obscurity (now the School for Complex Aesthetics) was really about. I enrolled in the School quite a while ago, without knowing much about it, just because everything that is coming out of it has a very…

I wonder how Mona would have reacted back then had she known the extent of her future fame. Which woman has provided more inspiration, undergone more transformations through the ages? Cheryl once again found the perfect starting point for a mail art call. What is an original artwork?

There is only one Mona, yet there are millions of it. There…

I have been waiting for the third of Cheryl's Dream Series (but not necessarily the chronological third) for several weeks. This forced awake state was well worth going through, because the dive into the next dream is just priceless. With this book we are leaving the House on the Hill and the Castle for a while, and the detective story is put in brackets. Instead, we…

Do you remember the House on the Hill? The place where Cheryl's Dreams are taking place [Dream Series- The Beginning]? We had a peep through the curtains a few weeks ago, and saw a mysterious Shadow. Walking up the Hill again today…

During the last months we have seen some of Cheryl's Dreams resurface. Most of them were wintery Nightmares, inhabited by blinded Pigs, haunted by Monsters of all kinds. This recent series is a continuation of it, but also a new start. We are clearly slipping into a warmer and less tormented season. Without ever leaving the Fantasy behind, of…

Transgress

1. To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep

2. To act in violation of (the law, for example)



As far as the page is concerned, I think that Cheryl is transgressing it with every piece of art she is sending out. Guilty as charged. Her books never look like any other books that ever…

Finally done! My book containing all of Cheryl Penn's mail so far. One year! But it's full now, I have to think about the next one...

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And the trip in Time and Space and Fantasy continues with this envelope from Cheryl. After reading the mysterious message on the back of the envelope I couldn't wait to open it.

What was urgently sent to me was..... a piece of…

I think I got it now. One of the reasons why Cheryl is such an outstanding artist is because she is also a very good storyteller. Almost anything will sparkle her imagination, and her ability to create new stories knows no borders.

But just like her books are not "orthodox" books, her stories aren't either.

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Heart Matters so much that it needed a few additional boekies from Cheryl, and I am the VERY lucky owner of one of them! As Cheryl says, the more it Matters, the Better.

With ensuing Consequences.

Every time…

Word lovers will be thrilled today (as I was), Cheryl is sending me three absolute goodies, putting on the balance text and image and how we perceive them. The first of them, "How text and image lie", was the original piece, which gave rise quite rapidly to additional thoughts and ideas, new work to complete her concept.

My first thought when I opened the…