And the Moons Hung Down Like Lanterns

Les Collaborateurs

Sabine Remy ("miriskum") and I continue our cross-the-pond collaborations.  Below are #16 (You Should Have Better Held Your Tongue), started by me and completed magnificently by Sabine, and #17 (Bird Hour on Channel Two), started by Sabine and diddled by me.

Some ATC's

This week's theme on Kollage Kit is the artist trading card, nicknamed "ATC" (which I often mistakenly refer to as "AKC"...my apologies to snooty dog lovers everywhere...).  An ATC is always wee-sized (2.5" x 3.5"), and they can be traded like baseball cards, or handed out like business cards, or whatever.  I've never made any before, and spent my morning gluing itsy-bitsy little paper scraps onto itsy-bitsy little black and white cards.  This is a fine way to spend a morning!  Here are six:

     

     

      

Victorian Centaur

Across the Universe

Across the Universe (On foot I had to cross the solar system...)

Across the Universe (...before I found the first thread of my red dress.)

On foot

I had to cross the solar system

before I found the first thread of my red dress.

I sense myself already.

Somewhere in space hangs my heart,

shaking in the void, from it streams sparks

into other intemperate hearts.

Edith Sodergran (Swedish/Finnish poet, 1892-1923)

DdA Factory

In Cagliari, Italy, is a gallery called DdA Factory which features photography and other contemporary art. Each month they produce and exhibit large (20" x 30") photographic reproductions of work by artists from various countries, and among the invited works this month is one of my pieces called "Two Birds" (cut & paste collage, magazine scraps on magazine page).  DdA has a lot of beautiful work on display (see it here) and I'm honored to be a part of this month's exhibition.

Intimate Works on Paper 2014

Alfred Stieglitz opened the Intimate Gallery in Saugerties, NY, in 1925, inviting artists, poets and writers to gather and exhibit their works.  The Intimate Gallery is still in business and still exhibiting work by artists working in book arts, printmaking, photography, paper arts, drawing and mixed media.  I'm very pleased that two of my pieces ("Grand Rapids 1937," an altered book, and "It Wasn't Clear What Happened Here," collage on an old book cover) are on display at their Intimate Works on Paper 2014 exhibit.  The exhibit opens today and will run through June 22 -- it looks fantastic and I wish I could be there. You can see the catalog here.

"It Wasn't Clear What Happened Here" 

"Grand Rapids 1937"