“Traditional” Ham Eggs

 

Over the past few years, I have been exploring what I call post-folk art.  I have used traditional Polish and Kashubian folk art as the inspiration for a new direction in my mixed media work (see tofuart.com for examples).  

Painted and dyed eggs, pisanki are a spring tradition in Poland.  I realize I have pushed the limits of what might be post-folk art – but another great Polish tradition is producing the best ham in the world.  Could you make folk art by painting wooden eggs to look like they are made of ham?  Well, of course you can….

The Mail Marches on

 

The past month has seen everything from late arriving Christmas and New Year’s mail art to Kathy Barnett’s fabulous King Eggshire Eggbert (is that for Easter?).  Some of the mail is still incredibly slow.  But zines and prints and postcards and collages are still arriving, and I appreciate them all.  These are the artists for the pieces shown:

1. Meral Agar – Turkey 
2. Debra Mulnick – Idaho
3. Katerina Nikoltsou – Greece
4. MiM – Virginia 
5. William Mellott – Taiwan 
6. Kathy Barnett – Missouri
7. Fleur Helsingor – California
8. Serse Luigetti – Italy

Ham in the Mail

It might surprise people to learn an artist known as Tofu has a great appreciation of meat art.  I have a modest collection of meat-themed art and have been known to create meat art myself.   My latest effort involves sending slices of “ham” in the mail just in time for all those Easter dinners.

World Collage Day in a Library

Sending this one to Belgium for a mail art call for World Collage Day (May 8^th).  The exhibition will be in a library, so it seems appropriate to make a collage from left over event calendars from the San Francisco Public Library.   I always recycle the calendars and use them when I am painting.  Now for recycled a second time and turned into collages.