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Green, Black and Magenta
Fresh green. Shiny black. Pulsating magenta. Side by side they have been slinking in and out of my visual memory. I’ve met this trio before in Matisse’s paper cut-outs and his Moroccan paintings. A Chagall collage of a dancing figure on a magenta stage and his painting of a poet lying on a grassy expanse…
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A Simple Melody
I am a musician: a pianist. Fingering the keys in various scales until the melody releases itself. In my work I experience a musicality not only in the play of the final shapes and colors but also in the movement of precut and colored pieces as I see how they work together. In the above…
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Splayed Again!
End of the weekend. In between and after talking on the phone, researching writing rubrics, walking around the nature reserve, shopping for food, and washing some laundry…Yes! I finished my latest work with splayed cutouts. The challenge of working with splayed cutouts continues to interest me. How to assemble the pieces in an unordered way…
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Thankful
Coloring, cutting, and pasting paper seem like simple actions until you go a step further and want the color, the cut, and the pasting to be something else. That something else may be the merest sparkle of an undefined vision. All that coloring, cutting, and pasting to capture a sparkle involves more actions leading to…
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An Influential Snail
What a pleasure to see Matisse’s The Snail again at the Tate Gallery in London. I adore this gouache découpée! Yes, adore is exactly my feeling. It brings a smile to my face. Me…happy. I can’t take these pasted blocks of complementary colors in all at once. My visual path becomes the snail’s path and…
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More Than One Way to Work a Quija Board!
Earlier today I watched an Art21 video on Susan Rothenberg. At one point she talks about how artistic vision changes over time. For several years, horses provided the lead to her painterly problems, but, at the time of the video, she was without one line of exploration. Just the way it goes. Sometimes you’re cruising…
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The Hum of Yes!
There’s something to be said for dissatisfaction. Namely, it’s an opening to perceive and posit new ideas. In other words: dissatisfaction can be a creative gold mine. As a recent work came to a finish, I pasted the last piece… only to see that the first piece pasted (practically right in the middle) clearly dampened…
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A Connection
And there was this work in progress all set to be pasted – for months it’s been there – until I started rearranging and reached a point where I no longer cared. And at that moment, or thereabouts, I beamed a new idea. Old pieces got dumped and on with the new. It’s done. As…
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In Spite of Myself
As I finished up working today, I took a glance around and truly was surprised at how much I did since I had been nagging myself about wasting so much time before I got started and obviously had titled the day Lucky-if-Anything-Gets-Done Wednesday. It is certainly a good thing when you manage not to pay…
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