Mail Art Received Third Week of February 2011
This I think is one of my all time favorite pieces from excellent mail art friend Katerina. The paint quality is fantastic - high gloss on white interspersed with Katerina's now signature tracing paper.
My second favorite set of lyrics in the whole world - well, for today that is - as a woman, Katerina knows we are FULLY entitled to change our minds at ANY given second :-)
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half forgotten dream.
You KNOW I was listening to this when I made all those envelopes - right?? Now I'm going to make some more - this time inspired by YOU. I LOVE it - thank you Katerina :-)
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This piece of mail arrived together with all the others I blogged - but - I saved the best till last :-)
Katerina sent a beautiful boekie of palimpsestic-like pages, made with tracing paper, collage, bold orange textured paper and ephemera. Although not a palimpsest in the true sense of the word (to rub away), beautiful images are created by SEEING THROUGH to the other side (yes you know my expression!)
an exploration of the essence of transparency - a compound image.The turning of the nearly transparent pages gives them different backgrounds and permutations of image. A negative and a positive image - there is a residual concept in the use of these materials - thank you Katerina - an EXCELLENT contribution to The World is a Town Project - o I'm smiling - have been for quite a while - and especially now as I revisit this work - thank you.
Oh, its been an uptight few days what with loosing important things, including Horizontal Alex. :-( BUT Katerina came to the rescue (AS USUAL) and her haptic boekie arrived :-)
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vintage crown windmills o-so-hollywood with da shades
I'm in...to make yet another series of little boekies of this melody...(that is not leaving the circles of my mind yet!)
Get us together, Cheryl! ;-)
Thank you dear friends. "the Thomas Crown Affair", the first with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, is an all-time favorite of mine...from the years of college and grad studies, when American cinema was so "artsy" in its titles and innovative with photography. Love Legrand music, anytime, any where. And I never saw the "new version", so can't compare.
I painted and printed up that batch of papers some weeks ago, and when I saw Cheryl's "circle of my mind", I knew I just had to make a few boekies with the painted papers for the SA connection! 'Glad you like them, they are special words for me, too.
Hmmmm... I surely could not compete with the beautiful works that Katerine has sent you.... so, as you enjoy a good story, I'll send you some of what I do best.
rod not enid
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