Breaking up without breaking - from Cheryl Penn

[Marie Wintzer]

 

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.

 

 

 

The book contains photographs of a large painting at various stages of the process, and a "real life" piece of it, materializing an idea that was birthed way upstream of today, framing it into the present. A strange feeling of literally holding a piece of idea in my hands.

 

 

The flow of this particular idea follows the line that goes from constructing, layering, building up, to de-constructing, breaking up, dissecting out. Something has been created with the purpose of being dismantled.
The painting shouts out "don't break me please", but its existence solely relies on fragmentation (although on one of Cheryl's pictures the word Don't is lying in the shadow so that the painting seems to be begging to be broken).
Which made me think, can one break up without breaking?

 

 

Find a way through. I am thrilled the piece I got contains the wonderful word FIND. Layered onto a map. This to me is an indication that the process of breaking up does not end here, with this piece of painting. There is more in it and more to it, but a different person is now taking over. Up to the recipient to dig deeper and continue with the fragmentation and the (re)search. And forward in the flow of ideas, perhaps the branching of a small-new river from a much larger one?
Thank you for this fab 1/28, Cheryl! I certainly would like to have as many "ideas whose time has come" as you do! But I know from experience that your ideas always lead to other ideas. Inspiration, I think. So, thank you!!

 

 

PS* unnecessary quote of the day from Unknown: A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven.

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle:

you affect a thing by measuring it.

by even just treating something as art, you have changed it.

[De Villo Sloan]

breaking up is hard to do

 

Doo doo doo down doo be do down down
come on come on
down doo be do down down
breaking up is hard to do.

Don't take your love away from me

don't you leave my heart in misery.
If you go then I'll be blue
'cause breaking up is hard to do.

Remember you don't say goodbye.
Can't we give our love another try.
Come on babe let's start a new
'cause breaking up is hard to do.

They say that breaking up is hard to do.
Now I know I know that it's true
don't say that this is the end.
Instead of breaking up
I wish that we are making up again.

I beg of love away from me

don't you leave my heart in misery.
If you go then I'll be blue
'cause breaking up is hard to do.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

What you wrote interested me, though, DVS, even if it turned out to be totally off-base. :--)   I'm curious, would this be an example of what you meant (I have to ask, because it has been a while since I hung around a campus!):  ripping an old collage artwork off of a canvas; it leaves some pieces on the canvas, but what you have in your hands, while basically the same original piece, is changed, has some holes, etc.; and the back of it shows in its rawness how the original was constructed.  The back becomes a new work, or basis for a new work.

[De Villo Sloan]

sophistry! snake oil salesman! pull hats out of rabbits! friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your shoes to throw at the sore-bone!

[cheryl penn]

Hello :-) - thanks for posting Marie - you still win the photography prize! Process based art practice - that would be where I'm at - DVS we've discussed before the concept of 'finished' and 'beauty' - a butterfly alive for a moment cannot be compared to a pinned one forever in a glass case.  The day I did this painting - I had a particularly bad time with a friend :-) (all good now!) so I was certainly FEELING the process. And then, to remake - thats always good. Hence the see-sore. A piece of an idea - good one Sweet Pea - thank you :-) 

P.S. Hello Nancy and S.H :-) X

[Nancy Bell Scott]

I love the idea of this, and the execution, so to speak.  Thank you for posting, Marie.

[1cgqtuoblpeqc]

i love the colours on this one.

it really drew me into the picture