Keeping Busy

recycled us

I was at an estate sale today where they were selling disposable underwear. And before you think that means something the least bit exciting...think again. Think of diapers for adults. Grandpa had died. I knew it from the small cross-stiched picture, "Grandfather means experienced father." And from the cookbooks... that start off in BBQing and end in the "Cooking for Diabetes." And that special bed pan sitting chair and the disposable underwear. I couldn't help feel a twinge of sadness over the box of received greeting cards and the unused car fluids that his son said he was trying to sell at one point in his life. Here I was a stranger, wandering through his home, touching his or their old things. His family was getting rid of everything for a song... and maybe his treasure can live on in a piece of my mail art or collage art.

In the end we will all be recycled... if not by worms in the soil then by strangers dollars at an estate sale and then lastly laid to rest on a burn pile or dump heap. The most we can do is to love now cause none of the stuff matters.

Spring in NY Fisheye camera

Stendhal Gallery: John Held's mail art collage piece

I made this after coming home from the Book about death show... so inspired by all those happenings in New York City... like meeting so many mail artists and meeting Bill Wilson and seeing his Ray Johnson collection and his May Wilson collection. Who would of thought that 7 months later this piece would be hanging in the Stendhal gallery as a part of a mail art collage piece by John Held? Originally mailed this to Bill Wilson. Bill gave it to Joel Cohen and Joel gave it to John Held... or at least that's the info I gathered...

My Moo and I went on a picnic together in downtown St. Petersburg

Better in Dreams then No-Where... I always say.

noncents

stolen image
Gala Dali
PostBeuys
Andre
Rosa Parks
Sit down 4 something U believe in
coming down 2 deadline time
nmp = not my problem
damage noted
ALICE in wunderland
"2 teaspoons of wishful thinking"
I'll make my path with with muchness!
don't loose lose loose loce ur muchness
or ur breakfast

conflicted.

Fisheye photos from NYC trip

Some of my latest work...

Top photo is my Dream Rocket Quilt! See the project HERE.

Recent Mail art sent

SENDING

Here are some current mail art pieces that I've mailed out!
The top photo is a mail art happening that Tommy and I did outside of the post office. I mailed quite a few pieces for the Mail Sketch 2010 call... all international this time.
The last two photos are a collaborative piece that Richard Canard sent me, asked me to add dots and then send on to Japan. Those type of orders... I follow pretty well.

I met Keith in NYC at the ABAD show... I made him this piece...

I made him this piece of mail art because we were standing next to each other when I looked into Bill Wilson's kitchen pantry. Where you normally see the chicken noodle soup, peas, corn, beans... there was the art of May Wilson. I fell in love right then and there... with May, Bill, the house, Ray Johnson... anyway I guess it was a "had to be there moment" and Keith was there. So I made this little number, shoved it into an XXX large ziploc bag... sewed it up and mailed it off... with lotsa stamps. I think it's a self-portrait of sorts. It was a lot of fun for me to make and I plan on doing more such projects. Who will I send them to? I want to send them to people who will keep them. Who will understand them or at least pretend to do so... That photo of me in the braids I think is 6th grade... age 11. The same age as my oldest crumbcake right now! Funny how time flies...

Canvas Project Show this Friday...

Canvas Project Exhibition: Friday, September 25th at Art House Gallery in Atlanta, GA
The final exhibition for The Canvas Project will be on display at Art House Gallery in Atlanta, Ga on Friday. We're so excited to display it and hope that everyone can make it out. As always, we'll be sure to post plenty of pictures of the show!

I have 5 tiny canvas in this show. I wish I could go... it would be fun... I love the arthouse coop.

What I consumed in NYC