Fall Mail

 

The distraction and fear over the election is now over.   We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  It’s time to review some of the mail art that has arrived in recent months:

 

1. Meral Agar – Turkey 
2. Fleur Helsingor - California 
3. Barbara Stasiowski – California 
4. Marina Salmaso – Denmark
5. R.F. Côté — Canada
6. Peter Müller – Germany
7. Maria Quiroga – Argentina 
8. Gregg Biggs – Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera – California
9. Keith Chambers – California
10. Serse Luigetti – Italy

Reading while Painting

I almost never make art in silence.   There is always music playing in the background, unless I stream television and/or read.  Read?  Well, to be exact, I read by listening to audio books.   While I am working on my Chaekgeori-inspired series and painting books — listening to audio books seems appropriate.

I am not sure the books I listen to influence the actual works of art.  But something does happen after spending hours working on a painting and listening to a book at the same time.   There is some art I have done that, for me, will always have an association with what I was listening to at the time.

This latest painting of another artist’s shelves and workspace will forever be linked with Paul Binding’s The Stranger from the Sea.  There is nothing like getting lost in an engaging tale while absorbed in the minute details of pens, pencils and paint brushes.