Overlapping (paper/thread/space) - from Cheryl Penn

[Marie Wintzer]

 

Most Days happen just like that. Most days are just Blanks and Fragments of Days, proportions variable. 
What happens in the Zalop Space inbetween? Is life happening in bursts of Time?

 

 

Blanks - Maybe just Time to Breathe. 
Fragments - Bones of Ideas, gathered and re-constructed to form a new Backbone. 

Cheryl's work is a perfect example of everything RE-.

Books. Dismantled. Re-built, Re-shaped, Re-cycled, Re-written, Re-thought.

Can Verbal be turned into Visual and vice versa? Where lies the Border between Verbal and Visual anyway?

 

 

That bundle of intermingled Threads underneath its protective plastic window, sending out only a few of its tentacles toward Solid Grounds. An abundant Verbal inner world translated into a multicolored Visual one.

 

 

Threads - As many attempts to connect, link, tie, bind, communicate. Bridges between Fragments. 
Thread - Maybe the Symbol of symbols?

 

The photo below is one of my favorites I ever took (because of the subject, not the photo itself, of course) :-))

Smelling the Paint, feeling the Textures, meeting there? Oh yes, no doubt we are meeting in that Space. When I get mail I always travel back in time and imagine the hands that crafted the piece. I see them putting paint on paper, creating something and being brave enough to let go of it and send it away. I don't know where I was while Cheryl worked on that piece, but we ARE meeting there now.
Cheryl, please don't stop sending me your FABS, I want to keep meeting you through your art. I have this feeling of growing a little bit more every time I get a new one, and I can only say thank you!

 

[cheryl penn]

I dont know, but he's really absent isn't he :-(

[Marie Wintzer]

Aw, you can't have too many pets :-) and besides, the CLP is kind of gone, where is he?

[Bifidus Jones]

wowzer, cheryl. REally wonderful work

[cheryl penn]

Marie, you already have clp - he's enough dont you think? :-))

[Karen Champlin]

Good point, Katerina.....knowing each other through our art.  I like that.

[Marie Wintzer]

Thank you my genki girls, I'm glad I could share this, and it was a pleasure.

Wow, I didn't know that piece from JF. I love it, he's another genius.

ERIQ.. can I have him as a pet? :-)

 

[cheryl penn]

P.S. Eriq - he's a Fluxus ghtsith - only on some days he resembles every so slightly a cat - sort of :-)

[cheryl penn]

Marie - thank you for the FAB - FABU blog - I have to add the U now - FAB is too short :-)  This work came about as a result of receiving an answer to my question from J H Chapelle - How Do You Work? This is what he sent in answer.  

Jen Staggs had asked me this question and I had replied in a letter format, but thought - your noticing - verbal/visual/written - of course they're intimately linked family. We all know this.  The book - its one of the few art places where viewer and artist meet in a tactile sense. . Like Katerina says - we get to know each other through our art - the various ways we tackle it, the materials we use, the results of experimentation and frustration - o, its a wonderful place to to meet :-) Thank you Sweet Pea X

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

OOOOOhhh, beautiful, Marie! Your blog, and beautiful Cheryl's "meeting space"!

I am so there with you gals...'even can smell the aroma of oil from her oil paints!

Do we not get to know each other oh so very well through our art? And with each piece

that arrives, do we not build an even closer friendship? Cheryl has made the perfect

expression of the verbal and the visual to tell us it is so! FAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Karen Champlin]

Beautiful, thought provoking work.  Thank you Cheryl and Marie.