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A Handy Tool
My small, silver digital camera that fits so nicely into the palm of my hand; that survives being tossed, dropped, dangled, and banged about from place to place; is a handy tool I have come to rely on. After laying out the cutouts, all I need to do is snap an image to record which…
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Lookin’ Good, or Not
Moments of assessment are the guardians of my creative process. I enjoy taking a step back, looking at the whole piece, and asking some direct questions. How can I make this better? How are the color interactions? What does it need? What do I need to subtract? or rearrange? Attentive looking. I’m connected to the…
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Time For Art
As a teacher, it is true that there is always one more thing to do. And so, a wall of reasons to not have time for art can imperiously blockade my creative impulses. However, let me be honest, I put up those walls. I can be a whiner. I am the one that moans: “I…
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Hard to Soft
A lot of ideas, feelings, and images keep me company as I work. Recently, one of those ideas wiggled its way past the others and firmly called for a softer, warmer statement rather than the geometric shapes and hard angles I had been working with. Keeping the grid, and keeping things simple, I settled on…
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Lodi 2010
Paris 1969. I am at the bottom of a long marble staircase in the Louvre. At the top is the Nike of Samothrace. I was spellbound. Totally entranced by the beauty, the history, the powerful aura of this marble statue. I was lost in the moment. The moment was mine. If anyone was around, I…
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The Waiting Game
Almost 7 years ago, with minimalism in mind, I tore some rectangular pieces of white paper and attached torn white rectangles in a grid. The result was flat. (How does Robert Ryman do it and Agnes Martin: How did she do it? You know, make something out of not too much.) But, I didn’t throw…
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7.18.10
Some beginnings get to the layout stage and stop. I may feel that something is there to explore further, but I am not behind it enough to continue. So, they hang around for me to linger over. Hmmmm.
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The Beginning of Ynot Art Blog
Art Blog Vision: Using images and brief statements, I will document random moments of my creative process plus a little I-don’t-know-what. Art focus: I paint paper, cut and paste it.
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