I'm published!!!

I'm published in an article in the May/June issue of Cloth Paper Scissors!!! The magazine published a feature article about the Disintegration Collaboration project that Seth Apter of the The Altered Page invented and that I participated in last year. You can find me on page 45. CPS chose several participating artists' work to illustrate Seth's article and every piece is just gorgeous. It's a beautiful article and I recommend you check it out.I am honored to be included in this article in my favorite magazine and also to be featured along side such wonderful artists.

Cloth Paper Scissors also has a feature on its website where you can make your own DisCo piece and upload your photos. Check it out here. It was such a rewarding thing to participate in this and you can't go wrong to give it a whirl.

Heads Up Everyone

Heads up, everyone! Quick! Run on over now to Seth Apter's blog, The Altered Page You remember Seth? He's the guy who thinks up all those really neat artist collaborations that I have participated in. Seth is celebrating over 200,000 visits to his blog by giving back to his readership with a giveaway of some really cool books. You have to leave a comment on his blog and you should tell him which book you'd like. If your name is a winner by random drawing, you get the book you want. You've gotta do this today to be in it!

The giveaway will launch The Book Guild a series of posts about book recommendations by artists who participated in The Pulse zine. If you enter because I sent you, please let him know where you heard about it. And if you win, do come back here and let me know in a comment. 

Good luck and may the books be with you!

Secret Sunday

Yes, yes. I know. It's a looooong story,

In the mean time, Seth Apter of The Altered Page, has begun the 4th edition of his zine, The Pulse. Over 200 artists are contribution their answers to a series of questions about their work, processes, and artistic lives. Every Sunday he has been publishing some of their secrets in entries he calls, "Secret Sundays." Yesterday he published one one of my secrets for art making resources: used books for their pages and for making altered books which I got from a branch of my local library.

So here are some of the books I found at my library on my last visit - hardcovers 50cents, soft covers 25cents: The book in Hebrew is A Little Town in Germany, by LeCarre, The Macbeth (the little volume all the way to the right) is not only notable for being published in 1889 with a signature of the owner dated 1890, the title on the spine was erroneously printed upside down. the little book at the top of the stack is Hamlet. The Fearful Passage (to the left of Macbeth) was published the year I was born.

Yesterday was Secret Sunday #5, check out more artists, their secrets from the first Secret Sunday and The Pulse at thealteredpage

P.S. I haven't forgotten my promise of a giveaway. It is coming and better late than never.
P.P.S. Best wishes for very Happy Holidays to all.

A Book About Death the movie

This fantastic youtube video was made by Angella Ferrara with music by Garry Schyman – Praan. An abbreviated exhibit was shown at the Queens Museum of Art 11/1. The entire exhibit will be traveling the country (and maybe the world). And next year there will be a new one. Of course I will make a new piece for that one. I am impressed at how moving every viewer finds the art. Check out the blog for A Book About Death for all the credits for the video and the lyrics including English translation. http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/ Lovely.

A Book About Death

OK, I did it. I accomplished Goal #2 which was to make a piece for A Book About Death. If you remember, this group show is the brain child of Matthew Rose, a collage artist and writer living in Paris http://homepage.mac.com/mistahcoughdrop/Menu22.html Each artist has to send their piece to The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, NYC in the form of 500 postcards. See my postcard, front and back above. The opening of the show is 9/10/09 from 7:30 - 11:pm. The show runs through 9/22. Everyone who visits is free to take postcards from each of the artists.
Here is a link to the blog about the show www.abookaboutdeathblogspot.com
And here is a link to the gallery www.emilyharveyfoundation.org
As of this posting, there are a total of 356 artists participating. I think the hope was for 1,000 artists. Maybe they will still make it. Perhaps not all the artists who are submitting work have sent their work to the blog? Anyway, do check out the blog. There is some really great art there.

DisCo Part Deux - The Great Reveal

I know. I know. We don't have to discuss it. I will start with last things first and progress backwards in subsequent posts.

You remember my piece, The Measure of Breath? Sure you do. I hung my package out on the terrace on 3/14 and took it down on 5/1. Here it is at the end of its life out in the elements.

Ready. Steady. Drum roll. Here she is in her reincarnation.
Her name is Souflee Renait (Breath Reborn). Dolls, music, boxes - 3 elements I enjoy.

Thanks again to Seth Apter of The Altered Page He always has such wonderful, intriguing ideas. Check out his recent posts and check out the other artists who have posted their Part 2 pieces. There are so many wonderful, talented artists out there!

International Fluxhibition #3

Voila! My completed piece for the International Fluxhibition #3. The name of the piece is Amus-i-Kit. It satisfies all the elements of Fluxus art - wordplay, fun, the use of common and found objects, a kit with instructions. And, its subject is music, a common theme in Fluxus. If you checked out the links in my last post, you might have noted a famous Fluxus music composition was Drip Music. John Cage is one of the most notable Fluxus composers.

Here is the Amus-i-Kit instruction sheet so you will know how to play all the "instruments." It is folded up in The Sound of Silence compartment. After I make the member of the audience sit back down in his seat, all will be in the mail to Texas on Monday.

And here is an update on the lovely bush in the park. More pods have developed. Though it has occurred to me that they are really fruit. This time I concentrated only on the fruit because I just love the colors.

Off to make a needle felted pig for my friend, Lenore, whose birthday it is tomorrow. She loves pigs; so a pig it is. Oink. Snort. Snuffle, snuffle. Then I have to work on some pages for Jackie's RR book which I recently received from Jane in the UK. My RR book is currently in Thailand!