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Category Archives: Collage
the night
my obsession with the nigh-time cityscape continues
this time some beautiful printed silk, that i picked up a while back in NYC, was stretched
then painted
this was done a few days ago
before i dislocated my wrist a little
this may slow me down a few days
pity
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excerpts
John Graham’s System and Dialectics of Art
“Art in particular is a systemic confession of personality”
John D Graham – Two Sisters [1944]
Oil, enamel, charcoal and casein on composition board, 121.4 x 121.8 cm
“The abstract purpose of art is to arrest the eternal motion and thus establish personal contact with static eternity”
“The origin of art lies in human longing for enigma, for the miraculous, for expansion, for social communication, for continuity and consequently – life eternal.”
makes perfect sense to me
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la nuit
…à Paris
papier collé and oil – 16′ x 20″
as predicted yesterday
one building piece resolved
from my few days spent à Paris last summer
back to work
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downtown
over a cup of mint green tea i realized that the four pieces i am working on bring me back to my buildings
this “downtown” that means so much to me
an evening stroll yielded a few snaps
and gave energy to the inspiration
heARTbeatgal
layered
what an odd lady this seated nude became
i covered the freshly stretched canvas with a dozen coats of gesso, sanding occasionally, adding other layers. she was drawn on the thick and still slightly wet paint. the pencil carved her outline. more paint. her outline, now in black, gets covered again, but each time now i carve the outline into the paint. this goes on a while.
turns out she is pink. and her body, glazed in fingerprints. multi-layered textured gal. i like her.
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walk with me
i started this adventure with the hopes of collaboARTing at any and every chance
so here is a great chance!
Nuit Blanche Ottawa 2012 / #NBO12
as the new countdown clock of the right tells me, we have five-ish months to go
September 22, 2012
heARTbeatgal and a fantastic fellow collaborator will take part in the over-night pedestrian arts celebration with a few collaborative pieces
(une page blanche)
the intention of the project is to allow the night to shape collaborative inter-active pieces in celebration of connectedness, both within ourselves and with those among us
it invites others to actively collaborate, allowing us to tap into the energy of what is most beautiful in life, self-love, connection, self-expression, fun, creation, community
i will soon detail some of the project ideas…because i wish with all my heART to have you collaborate with us!
think large papier collé that we could start soon and finish that night… think travelling walking sticks that share their journey in snaps… or just think!
we want input
stay tuned
please
heARTbeatgal
feeling preppy
one raw but sized
one with black gesso
one with many coats of gesso, to be sanded to a shine
one covered in silk
and, one for my mother, raw, as requested
can’t wait to paint!
save for my mother’s, they are all already painted in my mind
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doing stretches
new favourite thing…
stretching my own canvases!
i have so many ideas…
primed
un-primed
hyper-primed and polished
silk….
fun. fun . fun. i bought a staple gun
many many heARTs for what will result in a richer expression of my creative vision
heARTbeatgal
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