Nancy Bell Scott's Blog Posts Tagged 'crushed cans' (4)

Cans On Blue, from Katerina Nikoltsou

This is the second time Katerina has stitched a found can to a K.N. blue painting, but this time we have 3 at once: There the piece is, now on a wall, as it arrived in a large envelope. Katerina may have thought I'd want to cut the cans free and eventually do something else with them, but this is a work of art unto itself from Kat.'s own mail-art sensibility, and I love it. It…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on August 31, 2012 at 3:44am — 3 Comments

Hamburg bottle caps, crushed cans, reptile, rope, dark pink O's, toothbrush--you name it

From Erni Bar, of course, but even extra variety: Cameras in Maine don't like close-ups. Will Erni kindly include in a comment his photo of ALL the bottle caps laid out plainly and beautifully? It's posted now at the E.B. Fan Club, and quite wonderful.

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on August 31, 2012 at 3:34am — 1 Comment

Can Erni get more diverse? Bread art, interactive drink art, wash art, crushed-can trashpo art, and more from the Haptic Werewolf

All in a nice (flowery, I might add) box, one of many to join the studio collection here as functional mail art:

That is scanned bread art. Each is marked on one side as bread art, and on the other side we have "part one" and "part two." They are ordinary, and hard as rocks. In person they are like quietly celebratory beacons with souls of their own. Erni posted a fine…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on July 7, 2012 at 8:49pm — 4 Comments

Erni Bar sends me passion!

Mine, that is: rusty and/or crushed cans--and this time a lid, to boot! This can, though some earlier ones compete well with it, is my very favorite so far. Am IN love with it: It is such a beauty, I have to look at it every day. It doesn't get put away. Here is the other side of it, along with some other amazing crushed cans in this batch: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 8, 2012 at 10:30pm — 8 Comments

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