USA Tax Day: destroy or to mend?

Nava Lubeslski

1999 Tax File, 1/4" x 22" x 22", shredded paper and glue, 2007

 Nava states."My work explores the contradictions between the 
impulse to destroy and the compulsion to mend."


Her paper paper sculptures, such as 1999 Tax File, she has taken her  paper receipts, tax files, pay stubs and associated ephemera to create an organic form.
See more here.


Perhaps in 3 - 7 years or so when the holding period expires for this years' taxes
I'll do something with our bits and pieces of tax documents.

Textile Tipple Teaser

Mary Ann Tipple

North Ridgeville, OH U.S.A.

Sunday, Fort Lauderdale, 3pm

Painted tissue, silk flowers, organza, acrylic paint, xerox copies, paint sticks, cotton duck

40.5" H x 58.5" W

February 2010

Mary Ann and I friended each other on FaceBook (FB) just like Terry Jarrard-Dimond and I did. 

I have written I have love/hate thoughts about FB, this is another love story.

Mary Ann & I met in person at QSDS in Columbus, Ohio last year.

I adore her. I adore her work.

She uses photos from her own family archives to produce these delightful pieces.

She has a nice exhibit currently on display at The Gathering Place in Westlake, Ohio. 

I'm going to stop in there and take lots of pic's and then post them for you later this week. 

Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, you can see more  here.

Walk photos

I take a walk in my neighborhood and take pictures. 

Thought I'd start sharing a few each week.

Location: W.117th Street & Lake Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. USA

Making my own lines with old

A pile papers that are 20 years old. Throw them way?

These images are a sequence of what I did earlier this week

with a monoprint practice sheet made in '89?-ish.

(whilst nursing a horrid head cold!)

What to do?

I'll cut it out!

That's better. 

What if it became 3-D?

 Here, tacked onto a map of the U.S.A. 

I can throw the paper away now. 

I'm making my own lines.

Suzanne Tick: Refuse DC

Suzanne Tick
New York, NY U.S.A

RefuseDC/Medium: Paper, plastic, wire, cardboard tubes, coated fiber/Dimensions: Three panels, each 22” wide x 80” high

Suzanne Tick is an innovative artist and weaver. 
For RefuseDC, she created weave structures from the garbage created by the plastic bags, hangers and paper from the Dry Cleaners. 
Watch the video to see and hear more about this project.

Suzanne's website here.

Move

Detail, Move. Drawing (left) embroidered work in process (right)

My latest work. Move. 

Move is one of 12 works that will be in an exhibition opening this Friday, April 9, 2010 

at Asterisk Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio.

If you're in Cleveland, please stop in to say hello.

Repetition/Correspondence 

repetition - 

1. the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or 

presentation. 

2. repeated utterance; reiteration.

3. something made by or resulting from repeating.

4. a reproduction, copy, or replica.

correspondence - 

1. written communication: communication by means of exchanged written messages such as letters or e-mail

2. written messages: written messages, especially letters

3. conformity: conformity, consistency, or agreement between two or more things

Field Chapel

Boedigheim, Germany

Apropos of a week that began with Passover and will end with Easter.

Sometimes a traveller needs a place of quiet solitude.


The Field Chapel is a project designed and executed by the students of an Advanced Design/Build Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago for a ecumenical church co-operative in Boedigheim, Germany. The task of the design was to create a place of spirituality… as “an interdenominational chapel, a space for people who are in a search for God–a place for quiet reflection, but also one that welcomes hikers and cyclists who appreciate a rest stop that has a sense of beauty.”

The project is sustainable:

The design itself was based upon using donated, renewable and local materials. With the exception of the steel used in the fastening screws and column anchors, all materials come from locations within 40 km from the site.

© Brigida Gonzalez

via Archdaily

Click here to see images and read more about this project

Mapped Watercolor/ Twill Woven

Ruth Laskey
California, U.S.A.

Twill Series (Deep Orange/Dark Brown/Purple), 2007

Hand-dyed & handwoven linen

19.75 x 18.25 inches

DETAIL: Twill Series (Deep Orange/Dark Brown/Purple), 2007

Study for Twill Series (Deep Orange/Dark Brown/Purple), 2007
Watercolor on graph paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches

Twill Series (Black 1), 2008
Handwoven linen
28 x 37.5 inches

DETAIL, Twill Series (Black 1), 2008

Study for Twill Series (Black 1), 2008
Watercolor on graph paper
17 x 22 inches

Ruth Laskey creates small watercolor studies on graph paper to map out her plan for the production of the final piece she weaves. 

She uses a twill weave structure to execute the drawing as a woven piece of cloth in linen.

A pleasing outcome in my book.

See more here.  

Networked and Stacked

Derick Melander
born in Saratoga Springs, NY
Lives in New York City, NY, USA

Universal Set, 2008

Size: 12" x 9' x 6' (H x W x D) Materials: White Sneakers; Work Boots 

Universal Set: Drawing.

A network of ordinary shoes. The laces do not function in their expected fashion,

but instead bind adjacent shoes together. This process is repeated, creating a "daisy chain" effect.

Flesh of My Flesh

approximate Size: 10-12' x 2' x 2' (H x W x D)

Filter, approximate Size: 8.5' x 11' x 1' (H x W x D) FRONT

BACK

All images © Derik Melander

Derick Melander uses second hand clothing to in his sculptures that as he says, 

"explores the conflicted space between society and the individual, between the self and the outside world. " 

A meaningful mark in my book.

See his video about a recent work that will without a doubt, make you think a bit about humanity. Into the Fold. A sculpture from 3,615 pounds of second hand clothing.  

Representing the amount of textile waste created by New Yorkers every 5 minutes.  

Check it out here.

Undomesticated Part 3

Additional pic's from Undomesticated 
at Wall Eye Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio
see original post here
2nd post here.


Rebecca Cross

Sara Rabinowitz