A special piece from Cheryl arrived today

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

Cheryl is sending me loads of mail to add to my big book of our correspondence! Still lots of empty pockets for you to fill Sweetpea.... This one I have put on my studio wall cos I love it, Cheryl's wonderful use of layers and ephemera, I like the legs dancing across the world to the music above.

[Marie Wintzer]

So beautiful.... this book is going to be the bomb!

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

Synchronicity .... the cosmos is very busy. Katerina acknowledged the Thomas Crown affair in her work Windmills.

[De Villo Sloan]

I am so sucked into this. Ok, you all seem to be leaving out the end of "Windmills":

When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware

That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair.

The song (for once) actually matches the story in the original "Thomas Crown Affair" because it's not a Hollywood ending at all. Steve McQueen and (who was the actress?) become engaged in a high stakes game of emotional contradiction so intense they're ripped apart, and it is also a game of emotional bluffing too. I think the circularity of the song mirrors that. In the end, McQueen has to perform what amounts to a cold-blooded emotional execution simply to survive. Watching his body movements and facial expressions at the end of the movie are amazing. He has to maintain the tough guy exterior - what better choice than McQueen? - but you can see the guy just dying inside, but it's oh so subtle - he was a great actor. He pulled off the greatest bank heist in history or whatever, conned everybody, but - of course - lost the one thing that would have been his happiness and salvation. And he KNOWS it. Only his crime was the one thing that made it possible to meet the woman. The relation of the song and the film have always fascinated me. And then you have the reflective quality of "Windmills" too - replaying the scenes over and over again, pieces of them, parts you'd forgotten - seeing all the things you might have done well after the fact. Great one folks, thanks for letting me rant.

[cheryl penn]

De Villo - just thanked Katerina for :

Like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending or beginning...

like the cirlces that you find

In the windmills of your mind.

And you mention the wheel turning round and round.  The never ending motin of human interaction -its great when the  world is in unison, when its in tune.  Bifidus - somedays it DOES need staples to hold it down :-)

[De Villo Sloan]

Assuming it is a playing card - such a great metaphor. I HAD to add this Steely Dan lyric. I don't think it's really about gambling (because we know the house always wins) it uses cards, I think, to speak about risk, fate, truth, honesty, love all that stuff that maybe Cheryl is alluding to:

Now you swear and kick and beg us 

That you're not a gambling man 

Then you find you're back in Vegas 

With a handle in your hand  

Your black cards can make you money 

So you hide them when you're able 

In the land of milk and honey 

You must put them on the table, yeah 

you go back Jack do it again,

wheel turning round and round...

 

[De Villo Sloan]

cp-sa - feet & music = musical chairs? some1 said cards? deal me in! nothing up your sleeve. gb - the s key stuck? i'm on you like a cheap suit

[Bifidus Jones]

Great work, Cheryl--lots of movement going on, but those legs and staples keep it from flying off the planet.

[De Villo Sloan]

love the piece at the top with the sheet music and the3 strips of  different materials. and then further down a playing card? how cool. a nod to chance or fate? really interesting piece. i don't think this is Cheryl Penn work we're ued to. always like it when people push their boundaries. thanks for posting

[cheryl penn]

WOW! That was fast - I posted yesterday afternoon :-) By the way, I got the slip to collect the lost post last week.  From a strange post office. After it had already been returned to you.... One extreme to the other...