Stay Home, Make Art, Make Artists’ Books – Day 24

Today’s pages include this set of Postmark Planets with the help of a large hole punch, old envelopes and vintage space exploration postage stamps.

Moon Mail

 

 

When I saw the postage stamps commemorating the First Moon Landing — I immediately knew I need to make some lunar mail art.  This latest series includes 24 moonscape paintings with the Earth up in the sky.  It also features a reminder from the visitors that we are destroying our planet.  They seem to suggest they have sent Greta Thunberg to send us a message.  Either terrestrial or extraterrestrial, we better listen to her message and do something.

Moonlight

Moonlight, 24"x24", mixed media on canvas.
Made with approximately 2000 small pieces of vintage postcards with nighttime scenes of American cities and tourist sites including San Francisco, Niagara Falls and a 1913 postcard booklet of Denver at Night.

La Luna

La Luna, mixed media, reverse collage on plexi, 6”x6”

The effects of last weekend’s annular eclipse still have not worn off.   Going up to the nearly empty shore of Pyramid Lake in the Nevada desert was the perfect place for the event.   Yesterday I was sorting out some of my older work and came across La Luna — one of my reverse collages from an earlier series.  Appropriately there is a little bit of Yma Sumac embedded in the collage.  No desert road trip is complete without Yma.

Lunar Map

Lunar Map, mixed media on canvas, 10”x10”, 2012

After the all years of using maps in collages, I’ve normally kept things terrestrial.  I do like the space exploration sections you find at the beginning of an old atlas.  They are obviously dated, but have a certain corny charm.  I used them for an outer space piece for the 2011 Project as well as one with moon maps.  But here it is, my first moon map collage.