so when we received our weekly tv guide, i couldn't help being drawn to its cover.....
the paper art was created as an hommage to that week's special summer guest, the artist used pages from books and magazines that directly refer to the guest's achievements and interests
even Cisca has been infected with the 'paper art virus', this morning she showed me the work of Pepe Heykoop, starting with his paper vase covers this guy is really unbelievable, the way he works with waste products and turns them into carefully designed pieces of art......
the whole pop-up idea has been in my thoughts off and on too, so many ways to incorporate different kinds of folded paper in mixed media work, the possibilities are endless.... but it will have to wait until i can start using my studio.... almost there but not quite.
in the meantime i have discovered yet another 'branch' of 3D/mixed media/paper art: altered books! found this little gem online (while i was actually looking for a birthday present for someone else lol), immediately ordered it and am already soaking up every idea like a sponge.....
thing is, i have stored a very heavy 12-volume encyclopaedia, the one we used to have at home during the sixties
and was planning to throw it away, but now.... probably not! i can already see myself cutting out windows and niches in pages that have a special meaning for me. ahh, sweet dreams are made of this.....
...who am I to disagree?
ReplyDeleteMore later. I've been working on a section of a big grant - pharmocogenetic precision medicine for kidney transplantation in African Americans. About as far away from art as I could get over the past two weeks or more. However, I crafted an elegant evaluation plan for a huge grant proposal. Very artistic in many ways (my section); Hopefully not rejected when I submit it today to the study Principle investigator.
yes, that kind of stuff does take precedence, doesn't it? and demands all of your energy and focus. but ever so satisfying when you get it done...hope you have time to relax now and soak up some energy and inspiration
ReplyDeleteover here also lots of very urgent jobs, like helping some friends from Sierra Leone who finally got a house here in Leiden and need to decorate it and move in there within the week while the mother is 36 weeks pregnant with her second child and needs to arrange everything around the birth as well....
and my uncle just moved to the final stage of his life, terminal home care, not expected to last more than 3 months