All Blog Posts Tagged 'Cheryl Penn' (40)

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.

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Ether is one of Cheryl's favorite words, and after meeting it several times in our conversations I became fascinated by the concept behind it. Ether is a word that is so multilayered that it is impossible to simply give one definition of it. This word needed a book! We started exchanging chapters for it, in an experimental "let's see where this goes" kind of…

I have learned a little bit more about Cheryl with every piece she sent me. Over the months I got some insight into the way she works, which was also fabulously summarized in the "Overlapping (paper/thread/space)" piece, and I became acquainted with the fascinating concept of Re- .

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Most Days happen just like that. Most days are just Blanks and Fragments of Days, proportions variable. 

What happens in the Zalop Space inbetween? Is life happening in bursts of Time?

Blanks - Maybe just…

The other day I broke into a Building. A deep scarlet Building, a human Habitation. That Building got broken in several times before, I could tell, even though it was very well kept. It was a Secret place.

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- Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? -

This is part of a painting (oil painting I think) Cheryl was working on, which she cut up and then repainted on. Beautifully earthly and homely and clay..ly (sorry for the horrible word, you know what I mean, something…

Mia's eyes are of such beautiful and rare green. But it looks like the deep serenity that we used to find in them is gone.

Did she cry? Is she upset?

Almost surely. Because this wound, oh my, it must hurt badly. And it doesn't look like it is going to…

It was nice to see Cheryl's circled envelopes in my mail box again. Because it all started with those same circles on her envelopes several months ago (well, it was the circles of my mice back then, but still).

Cheryl's chapter is traveling deep into the machinery of one's mind. Those circles and wheels aren't just going to turn on their own, are they :-)) Just…

Another great surprise in my mail box when I came back to Tokyo. Cheryl is sending me a large piece of violeen vylene (thank you Lesley), which has a texture that lies somewhere in-between paper and fabric, very interesting. I've already tested a small piece of it on something I have sent out, but the possibilities are endless I think. It can "sustain" stitches, and that's probably the next thing I will try.

Also in the package,…

Today I give you four very special ladies. They might seem a little bit different at first, but they are one of us. And we are one of them.

Cheryl is a heck of a painter, and no less of a story teller. She is working on another volume of The Chronicles of Lyrehc, and those are some of the characters of the book. I think I would read such a book in one go and start all over again. And again. Looking at those paintings and reading Cheryl's words, I find a lot of that magic that I…

Bone (n.) 1. The dense, semirigid, porous, calcified connective tissue forming the major portion of the skeleton of most vertebrates. It consists of a dense organic matrix and an inorganic, mineral component.

One fine day a mad but oh so talented woman in South Africa decided to make a book of bones. This has to be one of the greatest books…

Another super-galactico mail from Cheryl Penn has made it to my lucky mailbox. No angry in here, says the envelope (laugh!). I hear you, Cheryl...

The puzzle of family unfolds, complex and rich, beautiful and mysterious. This is another one of those pieces I just couldn't stop taking pictures of. Gorgeous!…

This title must sound rather puzzling to you, but let me try to explain. A few months ago when I just met Cheryl she asked me what (on earth) I was doing in Japan. I told her a little bit about my job which, in a very small nutshell, consists of drawing circles around mouse brain cells after they have been in a square or in a round box. A tiny drop in the huge sea of the research going on in the field of learning and memory. I think we are both fascinated by the way memory is encoded in our…

The wind has been bringing me fabulous things. Things that most of the time leave me speechless. It's true that mail between South Africa has proven to be anything but on the wings of the wind, but it is so worth the wait.…