CRAFTED by Cheryl Penn...gentle threads, sharp pins and the sweet smell of linseed oil

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

It begins coming from an asemic-ZALOP envelope and it just has to be good!

Deep and dark, with warm brown tones and asemic "lace" with gentle threads from stitches.

What mystery is that "shadow" amongst the pages?

Open to ORGANIC: more asemic lace and earth auburn tones spread on with bold wide strokes 

INDUSTRIAL: with glimmers of metal piercing those warm tones, disrupting the calm...

Opening full fold to reveal zig-zag zalop stitches and a message, oh, so true:

"Copying Haptic Renders It Unhaptic"! For what you see here in these scanned images

on this blog, is not HAPTIC for you...ah, but as I hold this piece, feel-the-art and textures, 

smell the oil paints, hear the flip of the papers...for me, it is very HAPTIC!

...because by folding and unfolding, by "interfering"..I make Haptic Happen!

ouch! sharp pins, cold steel...thesis/antithesis...opening it full fold, revealing the impact:

CRAFTED! Beautifully and dynamically!

A work of art in deep tones from the South Africa Connection!

"FEEL-the -ART"! ...unless

Many thanks, Cheryl. This is an ORGANIC.... CRAFTED ....GEM!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

See? good things can get "buried" in these here blogs...they can get blogged down? ;-)

Anyway, glad you found it and now, Cheryl, you must tell us WHAT is the black ink image on the "cover" of the pages? I begin to see various things,when turned around in various directions, but it must be a drawing of......? Clue us in, please.

 

[cheryl penn]

Katerina - thanks for this FAB blog :-) - I nearly missed it!! So good you commented!  Glad you like too - That book - the image - made me realise that as soon as the photograph was taken, the meaning was lost.  I wrote somewhere before that it was about the 'dangerous photograph', and skin being our contact with the outside world - an image - a copy of the book :-(  all that was lost, so I just HAD to make it haptic again :-).  It was an interesting realisation.  Does haptic incorporate sound?? Or is it the technology of touch??

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

The sound component, and we here not talking voice or music, is in haptic art surely, and even as it comes in and out of the envelope: swoosh-swoosh, then onto a hard table top surface: flop-flop, opening and unfolding stiff paper stock: creech-creech, metal pins hitting paper and/or table: ting-ting, fingertips across the paper and stitches: whooo-whooo, and closure: pop!

swoosh-swoosh /flop-flop/ creech-creech /ting-ting/ whoo-whooo.pop....a haptic sonata.

[De Villo Sloan]

BTW Katerina, I'm scanning in an asemic piece you sent me - I am becoming a COLLECTOR of your stamps, special, like Ruud's envelopes.

 

Wow Marie, the sound component. Is that haptic? There's spoken word poetry, but this is different. That is a heck of an interesting idea to consider.

[De Villo Sloan]

I also see pins, stitches, a razor - she covers a broad range of tactile experiences. And then you have the very Cheryl: "Copying haptic makes it unhaptic." I don't always know what it means, but I like it. A definite contribution to all this incredible haptic work going on.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Yes, the sound of the papers...and this is not just a series of pages, but fold-out, almost in mysterious, various ways. A bit difficult to capture it in a photo:

 

[Marie Wintzer]

Great blog Katerina! Is "hearing" the pages turn also haptic? I never thought about that, the sound of a boekie.

Love love love the stitches! and everything else...

[De Villo Sloan]

Cheryl makes some great commentary about haptics here and contributes some very original work. Add this to the haptic archives! Thanks for posting Kat