ABSTRACT MINALMALISM: Nature's Way

 

 

 

 

i know most of you follow Seth Apter's blog The Altered Page. He's surveyed over 200 artists for the upcoming edition of PULSE and features ideas from that in a post called SECRET SUNDAY every week. Fran Meneley has a beautiful site as well (both are in my Sparks on the sidebar)and her secret was posted this last sunday. Fran is a great writer, photographer, collage artist, and reveals her secret in a great narrative plus these two words: "PAY ATTENTION"!!

it brought to mind the Maxine Greene quote on my sidebar, part of which reminds me to:"UNCOUPLE FROM THE FAMILIAR....JUST IN ORDER TO SEE".

somehow this has been synthesized into the word NOTICINGS...and when out there in the natural elements, with my camera, i tend to notice a great deal more, noticing details/changes in a different way, and some of these are captured digitally and when viewed on the computer, bigger connections to art are made. Paintings are often brought to mind as in the photos above.


abstract? minimal? subtle and beautiful and created over a long period of time. and it could happen with a brush, paint, and a canvas! in this case, part of that DISINTEGRATION COLLABORATION with NATURE!!

(SO while you're over reading secrets on the altered page, be sure to check out seth's project from last winter called just that: the DisCo for short)

DISCO 2 (with disco 1 book in the next posting)

 

 

 

I had to go back and make a DISCO 2 WITH SOME OF THE REMAINING PIECES FROM THE DISINTEGRATION REMAINS...the back cover of an old book beckoned me...it had been out with "sprout baby sprout" painted on the back, and metal pieces, but once again, the surprise was the reverse side/ the unintentional doings of Nature...lovely markings and still the original signature on the cover intake. The
Thoreau quote had been on a small page attached to it, and so it's rewritten here in sepia ink with a brush and lines, the large metal upholstery tack from mexico was added which held pieces on somewhere, and in the little hanging roll, the quote
"All the birds have flown up and gone. A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other. Only the mountain and I." Li Bai

DISINTEGRATION COLLABORATION: MY BOOK OF CHANGES

 

 

 

 

The elements that resulted from the dance with Nature during the period between February 28th and May 1st
have been bound into a book that's 9x12 inches in size.
The weathered pages of torn parchment show markings from photos, paintings, ink, rust, and pressure.
Other pieces from the Bundles are attached to those.
I stitched the pages together, and then to the front and back covers. The front cover is like the northern lights in rust. Inside the cover are pieces in an opened envelope, rusted nail, and a deep impression of a metal part.
The back cover is what remains of a large mixed media scene of taos mountain and studio in the sky on heavy arches paper.
Along the front cover edge over the stitching is a strip of canvas in rusty accord. The tag reads: "Memory lives in the heart"

scroll down for 5 more posts of pages and pieces!!

NOW, PLEASE WATCH THE YOUTUBE CLIP in the sidebar...reading my book of changes...

 

 

 

the back of the front cover

 

 

 

 

ONE REAL WORLD IS ENOUGH: PERSPECTIVES ON PLACE, Nature's Visions, Artists' Visions,
circular impressions from the pedestal

 

 

 

 

THE BACK COVER

 

Thanks to my friend Renee for knowing just when to nudge!!
She advocates for causes, serious ones, and playful fun...
in the ART SPIRIT.