Very UN my iuoma aesthetic...

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

but I just unearthed and posted this old article on my metalwork if any one's interested...

http://www.studiocleo.com/studio/portfolio/disgardingLrg.html

[DKeys]

wonderful Claire! I LOVE the book covers. beautiful contraptions -both romantic and menacing thanks for sharing

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

Sorry for the disappearance - 'twas in nyc etc... Thanks for all the comments everyone!

DK: Here are some color photos I have that I scanned when I first started the site over 12 yrs ago... I keep meaning to digitize all my tons of slides, but...

http://www.studiocleo.com/studio/portfolio/index.html

Here are some of the 1st web pages I designed w/ my "medieval" look body-wear. Very conceptual - all about the "bondage" of "this mortal coil" housing "meaning," the divine etc (in reaction to/coming to terms w/ the disability after the op.) (I wasn't too good then/didn't know much about web/digital work...) Aaaanyway, if you're interested, click on "Brew" (one of my metal book covers): http://www.studiocleo.com/anotherform1/index.html

[Rebecca Guyver]

Love this insiders guide to the artists!

[DKeys]

Your nice comments are so appreciated--really. On a good day my self-esteem is just above poverty line. When I first got into altered art I was a longtime contributor and writer for multiple
Somerset Studio Publications such as:   Life Images, Altered Couture, Legacy, Somerset Studio, Somerset Gallery, Somerset Wedding. I will try to dig up some of my 'pretty' stuff. I was telling DVS that I am contributing to an art show on the theme of 'water'. I am making a found object collage and while I like it, it in no way resembles water. But I'm going to go with it anyway. Is there more to see Claire? WOuld love to see your medieval art weapons:)

[De Villo Sloan]

I meant: Couldn't agree with you more.

[De Villo Sloan]

I am referencing the DK work presented in this blog only. Diane has a very wide range in her work, which can be glimpsed in her IUOMA portfolio. I also like her "pretty" work & her pretty anti-art.

Claire, couldn't agree with you about anti-art & DaDa as the epicenter.

Now critics, Greil Marcus in particular, have noted the Punk aesthetic might have been a genuine anti-art Post-DaDa. With the Fluxus presence so pronounced in the m-a network, there are certainly people doing what might be viewed as some manifestation of anti-art. But, yeah, art/anti-art, like form/content, might be seeming oppositions that need re-framing.

[Carina]

Interesting work and discussion.   Now I'm curious about Diane's pretty art..

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

oh lord cher, I would never compare! I just thought that was interesting (actually, that's the back of a piece, with the papers from the other side bent over the edges - this "explains" better: )

Subjective no doubt: imo, Diane is one of the strongest artistic presences on iuoma!

Thorny term indeed! Personally, I think it made perfect sense when the DaDaists used it to point out the against the grain aesthetic they were embracing at (of) the time, but with all the art that such as my Mom would call "garbage" (and such as they were doing) now canonized and raking in millions, it really doesn't make sense to me. Many opine that "everything's art" if someone created it...  (ha: you called DK's piece a "composition!" Not just slapped together willy-nilly, but chosen... (How can one not see/Feel that there???!) Be that as it may...

Thanks DK! Good to be back! (Leaving for nyc again in a few days/for a few weeks so it shan't be reg yet..) Funny that you said weapons: a critic once called them "menacing"... %_^Afraid I don't feel that (anti-art), but your work is sublime imo, whatever one chooses to call it! Diane & "pretty" - hmmm...?

[DKeys]

LOL I'm here. What a great blog and interesting read. Claire your metal pieces are wonderful. They look like weapons. I'm good with my work being called anti-art or outsider art. I used to make really pretty art, but I've completely lost interest in that-for better or worse. It is definately good to see you around again Claire. Hope the move etc. went smoothly

[De Villo Sloan]

Wow Claire, thanks for the compare & contrast as well as an unexpected DK/Claire collab. So we have the two examples side by side. Here it probably comes down to the subjective response of the individual.

From my perspective, your work compared to DK's - it's completely day & night. However, quickly you might have done yours, I see in that work a human presence striving for the balance & harmony we have been discussing, as well as that geometry appearing again. 

Now Diane's composition, well, you have a binary pattern that suggests a certain human presence but whether that is "artistic," I'm not convinced. I see a lot of Trashpo & Diane's work as anti-art (the interjection of yet another thorny term). I can completely get DK if I see it as anti-art. I am a huge DK fan; I want to make that understood.

Of course, I once infamously stated (and later came to regret) that anything Grigori Antonin did could have been done better by a trained monkey, which was to suggest the absence of a human presence in the work or something mechanical and rote.

Where is DK?