GOTIJ, INDEED!!  Some lovely women of South Africa have sent me enough art to roll around in!  No; I wouldn't roll around on it!  But it's plentiful enugh to make me feel spoiled!  Some solo work, and some collaborative...  And amazingly it all of it arrived on the same exact day.  It must have been a plot to overwhelm my ocular senses with artistic delight...

First to suffer the blow of my letter opener was a nice thick envelope from Lesley Magwood Fraser:

That thar's purdy enough to put in a frame, tha' is!  Hard sayin' if Lesley knows it... but figurative and portrait studies are some of my favorite types of art.  So... I'm grateful for this treat.  (And it truly might go in a frame!)

Lesley wasn't done with me yet this day, though...

A 2008 collaborative work between Lesley and Cheryl Penn resulted in the art book called Bound by Life.  Then a second book in the series was completed called Just One Day, Bound by Life--12 December 2008.  Cheryl sent a piece of the "unbound" book that she relieved of it's earthly coil and released to the universe on January 12th, 2012.  Cheryl is a braver soul that I--the screams of the book under the knife would haunt my dreams I'm certain.  So I suppose it reflects some sort of macabre part of my persona that I relish with glee receiving the prize of a segment of Cheryl and Lesley's liberated livre.  TRULY relish....  Here, to the best of my photographic capabilities is pictoral homage to its loveliness:

BUT WAIT!... There's MORE!

A THIRD fatty envelope was bulging from my postbox.  Cheryl, obviously not content to share all of the spotlight with her fellow countrywoman, sent another dis-membered artpiece of her own.  Cherly had created two separate large paintings JUST for the sole purpose of sending them to their doom on the chopping block.  We'll have to start calling your studio "The Farm," Cheryl... Just like the farm piglets, maybe you shouldn't name your pieces--don't want the young kiddies to get too attached to them, after all.  That way, they won't feel so bad when they're munching down on the bacon later in the fall!  But I tell you what, whatever your feedin' them thar works of art, it's some mighty tasty fare!!!

From painting number 1, the whole:

And my slice of fat:

MMmm-MMM!  Yummy!

From painting number 2, the whole:

And my cutlet:

Yeow-WEE!  Pass the gravy!  I'm gonna sop up that arty goodness with a big hunka bread!

Thanks to the loveliest mail artin' ladies of the lower African continent. You created a great mailbox extravaganza day half way around the world!  Smooches for you both!

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Comment by cheryl penn on February 20, 2012 at 9:40am

Thank you for blogging Thom - all these books were going to a museum library and I thought that no-one would EVER read them! The only way to deal with that was to cut them up - simple really :-))! The Farm :-)))! - I like that - although its a bit like a Conquer and Divide space really. I am the only one in the WHOLE WORLD who gets to SEE the paintings whole - (family - o there she goes again doesn't count!) THAT I find weird.... thank you again :-) X

Comment by Marie Wintzer on February 20, 2012 at 9:19am

Thom you're a great blogger, what a pleasure to read your commentary. Fantastic SA art!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 20, 2012 at 9:02am

What a SA haul, Thom! Fantastic art, yes? Hmmmmm, I am enjoying my beauties, too. Those gals from Kwazulu just spoils us, don't they! The ones I receive go on display for blue mouse to see, too. 

"ME" likes the "piece" of the masterpiece!

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