The Waterville knitting mill - from Nancy Bell Scott

[Marie Wintzer]

When I saw Nancy's work featuring on several blogs I was hoping to receive something from her, and I didn't have to wait for a very long time, her first envelope arrived this week, lucky me.
Nancy dug up an old box full of of antique print blocks and stamps from her attic, check out her blog if you haven't seen it yet, it is very impressive. She started to use and integrate them in her art and the result is quite unique.

 

The painted and stamped envelope with golden touch is beautiful. On the back of it Nancy used the stamp for the Waterville Knitting Mill (NY) - 103 Conger Ave. Google told me that it used to produce textiles in the 80's and that it is now torn down due to dangerous conditions within the building and trespassing. What an original stamp to possess! A true collectable!

The card is partly collage partly asemic (see both sides). But not as separate entities. More like a kind of Yin-Yang symbol, with a piece of the one always existing (embedded?) within the other, and sealed by thick waxy paint. The paper she uses is fantastic, maybe handmade. It is hard to see the texture from the photo, but it got plenty of it. 
Nancy, thank you for sending this beautiful piece!

 

[Nancy Bell Scott]

What about Waterloo, do you ever make it over there?

[De Villo Sloan]

I mean George Eastman.

[De Villo Sloan]

Woh! Waterville, New York is in my neck of the woods. It was once "The Hops Capitol of the World." George East - founder of Eastman Kodak, film and camera, was born there. The mill is mentioned in wik. What can we make of this randomness?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterville,_New_York