All Blog Posts Tagged 'Marie' (61)

So Bifidus Jones won the word project and features on Marie's boekie.  If I only would have known that, I would have returned mine, and Bifidus would have still won.  The photos in this boekie were inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology about the creation of the earth and sky, according to the Book of the Dead.

Thank you Marie, it's nice to blog you. …

bearing an immensely delicious creation born from Marie's ever-ever stellar touch & vision... (...and the lore of Marie-Ariadne bears an indelible new mark...) (My very first Marie original too!!! ^_^)…

As the saying goes; "those who live by the scroll, die by the scroll".  Or is that the needle?  In this case there are no needles, but the ever present paperclip that has no purpose of being there at all.  Yes, deep meaning here of what one is and what one is suppose to do.  (Note to self: Don't write blogs before breakfast.)

An ad for one of the first color…

Scene VI of course is after scene V but not always in that order.  But what does this all mean you ask? 

Well ever pot of gold has its rainbow.  And ever rainbow has its Marie.

Thank you…

Psychodelic envelope...great lead in to the Hippie Dippy trashpo collage(rolling papers included) sent in by Not Hi Ng.  Many thanks No Thing, this is very cool! I knew when I saw his old van that Nothing, No Thing or Not Hi Ng was a keeper! :)

Much…

"Utopology and what we know of it" has me thinking from the start.  A very unique style from Marie that comes in a form of Boekies.  Or any way this is how I see it.  I must admit I had truoble with the text, so before going to bed, I asked my wife if she could read it.  She picked it up and started reading it out loud.  "What, you can read it?"; I said.  'Yes, it's easy" she replied.  So I sat back and listened as she read me this bedtime story.  Even if we don't live in Utopologia, Life is…

closeups of a few pages of Marie's boekie. and a beauty it is.…

'Not a sole in this coal hole

Not a whole nor a whole

Will I walk faster if I tie my shoelace'

A powerful piece Marie. Your ability to attach words to an image, a respectable gift. ありがとう Love this piece.

Cheryl Penn has alreeady done a very nice blog about this piece which can be found here: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-new-alexandrian-library-south-africa-boekie-collection-blog-2?xg_source=activity

However, I would like to point out some of the finer details of Marie's work.  In the past few pieces that Marie has sent me,…

Marie in Japan sent me this lovely mail art piece.  It is a series of paper squares on a string with knots  between each square.  I couldn't just show it with one single photo.  So here it is in all its glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ORlLCxEBuA&feature=youtu.be

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Cheryl Penn gave Marie's entire series the thorough blog that it deserves, and here is one that I was thrilled to receive: 

Just beautiful, Marie, from a brilliant series. Thank you so much!

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This is a wonderful piece that I found myself playing with for hours.  No scans or photos can give you an idea of what it is like and what it can do.  So I have decided to make a video of it to show you.  So watch this space on the 16th of May when I hope to have it finished.

Until then, here is a photo Marie also sent me.  You can see Marie in the shadow taking…

exquisite and delicate. beautiful and haunting. 

Made with printed tissue paper and bound with threads tied in small knots. 

Marie's poem is as follows: 

"the sight of a reason,

the same sight slighter,

the sight of a simple

negative answer,

the same sore Sounder,

the intention to wishing,

the same splendor,

the same furniture."

my oh my. a graceful and bewitching boekie Marie. I love it.…

AH those French ladies know how to use the English language to their advantage.  This reminds me of a very funny event.  Once I went to a swimming pool in England and saw a sign that said "No Heavy Petting in the Pool", and for the life of me could not understand what it meant.  I asked a lady in the pool what the sign meant, and she slaps me across the face.  “Wise guy”, she said, and did the breast stroke to the other side of the pool, and told the life guard to keep an eye on me.  I…

A couple of amazing Mail Art projects received in Book form... one from Marie Wintzer and another from Rob of Inkovia, both from the opposite side of the Pacific...

Marie's envelope was fascinating in and of itself--an impressionistic cityscape depicting people walking among the streets, between buildings, old and new, on a sunny-yellow day.  It's BEAUTIFUL…

This two-piece art from Marie wants to hang by its delicate threads: I know it does! yet haven't figured out yet how to do it well. And that's fine, because just holding it is enjoyable, and calls up many associations aside from the wonderful ways Marie uses text: there is also the swimming aspect in this work, and that movement is mesmerizing. I love it, as I do the book that…

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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It would be great, and I looked forward to it immensely:…

This is my first ever blog posting, so—please—I beg of thee, forgive me any foibles or gaffes that may reveal themselves in the prosaic ramblings that follow…

Multiple works of artifice have recently found themselves lodged in my mailbox and this post-ing is a celebration of the DIVERSITY of talent that exudes from all corners of the planet—truly!—represented by a small, but ever growing, microcosm of creatives burrowing within the electronic village called IUOMA.  Though the…

Many thanks to Marie in Virginia, USA for this assemblage postcard complete with string attachments and colored additions. Hand torn and cut cardboard base with gorgeous 2 cent stamp. Work speaks to working with hands, fear, order/disorder and design. Still…