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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Collaborators Gotta Collaborate

Sabine Remy, a talented collage artist living in Dusseldorf, Germany, has been one of my collaboration partners for many years now. We may have slowed down a little (procrastinate much, Lynn?), but we recently completed our 122nd collage piece, and we continue to collaborate. As always, one of us starts a collage, leaves it unfinished, and sends it to the other to complete.(The starter is listed first in the description, if you're curious.)

Here are a few of the more recent ones.

Collab #113 ("Tunnel Tree" 2021) by Lynn & Sabine

Collab #114 ("In a Strange Garden" 2021) by Sabine & Lynn

Collab #115 ("The World We Live In" 2021) by Lynn & Sabine

Collab #116 ("Surprised to See Me?" 2001) by Sabine & Lynn

Collab #121 ("The Earth and Moon in Space" 2022 by Lynn & Sabine

Collab #122 ("Dream Girl" 2022) by Sabine & Lynn

Friday, October 21, 2022

Cyanotypes

Spent some time in North Carolina recently, at the John C. Campbell Folk School, learning the cyanotype process. Great class, great teacher (Cindy Steiler). Learned a lot and had much fun. Also got Covid. Meh.

Cyanotype is a process in which you use the sun to create photographic images on specially-treated fabrics (or wood or glass or whatever) using "negatives" created from transparency sheets. It's mad scientist territory -- stained aprons, long rubber gloves, chemicals and solutions. Great fun. You should stalk Cindy Steiler, find out where she's teaching her next class, and go there. Seriously.

Here's my first piece using some cyanotype panels I made out in North Carolina. These panels are both negatives and positives of the same image created from an old photograph. Some of the panels have been bleached and/or treated with tannic acid, and all of them are embellished with beading, old buttons, ribbons, lace, metal charms, embroidery and hand-cut letters.

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Six cyanotype panels 22"h x 25"w

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

PATHWAYS: How to get from here to there.

I recently finished an altered book for the annual book exchange program sponsored by the Puget Sound Book Association. PSBA chose the theme “Pathways,” and this little book highlights some of the creative ways we go down our pathways. The original book was a soft-covered children’s book about the Spanish Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca, who was the leader of an ill-fated expedition into what is now Texas and the American Southwest in the early 1500’s (thereby selecting invading and conquering as his own personal method of going down the path). Here are a few page views: