More Heart Matters - from Lesley Magwood Fraser

[cheryl penn]

I received more work from Lesley for the Heart Matters projects - FAB as usual :-).  Anyone who has seen another person through Bad Physical Heart Matters, known this sight. The staples that hold chest and heart together. 

When it happens to someone close to you, no elastoplasts  can fix a Heart Matter.

 

A thin red line - the machine line of life or death runs through Les's evocative work.

And for sure, the heart feels in the head. Or in the mouth. Or in the stomach where life pounds.  The twist to this tale? The Fortune Teller Fish.  

Les, I'm a bit nervous to test this one!!! 

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I am busy with a book called Heart Matters.  Does it matter? Of COURSE IT MATTERS! Physically, emotionally, metaphorically - the heart most definitely  matters.  I wanted to hear other voices in my book - the visual voices of other artists I correspond with.  The Heart. The Secret Site.

This work by Marie - its again, a piece that echos in me. Emotionally. I KNOW this voice, it reverberates with mine. From the outside where things are visible, to the inside where  secrets lie, Marie uses the same resonating images. 

Hearts? They're broken, and mended, stitched together, sometimes with care, sometimes not. The tears, they can stay like that forever.  Threads that tie together hang like veins. I asked Marie about this work - I hope she will show you her references:

So, I'm thinking about the heart as a wall, where all the experiences you ever had are tagged in some way. Overlapping each other. Some very old ones, but you can still guess they are here, and some newer ones. Some are engraved, some painted, some are only quickly pinned on, some are washed out, but everything is there. And of course, wounds! That HAD to be there. 

We KNOW it matters. What matters?

The heart, always the heart. 

DEAL with it.

Needs to know.

Lets you know.

Will not take it.

I dont buy it.

Words like staccato heart beats. 

Marie - its dense with resonance. 

 

Marie gazes out from her work. In shadows and faded. Looking at us. Assuring me, that for her, Heart Matters. She has a Secret Site.

Lauriana sent me her Heart Matters in a red sewn envelope. It begins with the phrase - Handle with Care. I dont think we do enough of that? It is a fragile book, filled with transparent pages and old negatives. Old negatives?

 

She says - follow your heart.  Its hard for the heart to be written on, engraved, branded.  Its painful to be opened up and read.

"Tell me,

Where is fancy bred

or in the heart or in the head"

Laurina has this glyph/pictogram that she once told me she has used since student days - Clues Lauriana?

From Lesley - If the heart of the fire is full, the fire burns happy.  Lesley's packet full of secret hearts? She didnt give ANY away :-)

This piece by Lesley - although NOT part of Heart Matters, was certainly related to it. The fire burning in the previous image came from a dream she had after visiting a game lodge. In this envelope were pieces from the bark of a tree - in her dream, the pieces of the cocoon of her insects in Project 26.  Funny how real life spills into dream life. 

Thank you Marie, Lauriana and Lesley - what can I say - you'e all just FAB!!! :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[De Villo Sloan]

Dark Wall thinks this should be included in the series too:

 

[cheryl penn]

For SURE this wall carries the spirit of place!

Lesleys envelope :-)

[Marie Wintzer]

You know, I never thought about this, that it was created on purpose. But on closer look, I'm thinking, maybe you're right!! Oh yes it will be re-walled :-)))  I also made a last-minute spirit of place for Helen with it.

[cheryl penn]

You know, looking at this wall - its hard to believe it was not created on purpose? It is such a beautiful abstract composition. Artist can labor FOREVER to achieve this - and here, time and chance and people came together and collaborated to create this :-) - unbeknown to each other. Marie - thanks for posting - this wall - its the beginning of something else entirely AGAIN I think???  As Bruno says - re-wall. Re-read. Also - the juxtaposition of the clean glass structure behind - amazing :-) X

[Marie Wintzer]

OK, here they are. I stayed in front of it for a long time. Didn't want to leave :-))

[Marie Wintzer]

Thank you for blogging this, Cheryl! And thank you for such kind comments. Hearts are such complex and interesting but tricky places to look into. If you look deep enough you might find things you didn't expect (good and bad, maybe disturbing).

Let me find the pictures of that wall....

[cheryl penn]

EEEK! Did not mean to favorite my own blog!  BUT - DEF favor the artists :-) - Les - YAY :-)! X

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

OK will work on some more hearty stuff for you! :)

[cheryl penn]

YOU made the heart stamp? - Wonderful Les :-) - I will post a pic tomorrow - only ONE heart matters piece??? Bruno - the heart IS a palimpsest for sure - the layers of our lives, embedded :-) - Lauriana - thanks - I KNEW you had referred to it at some stage :-) Angie - hello - nice to see you here :-) - I had better send you a piece of heart matters?? I thought I had - maybe not X

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

Where is the other Heart Matters that I sent you? Or did I?? Yes I did, I made a heart stamp. Forgot to photograph it so dont have a record. As always Marie and Laurie's work humbles me....