“Truth, love and beauty/Give us your booty…”
“Waffle” by Jill Bedgood was in the Red Dot show at Women and Their Work when I went on an art crawl with the Cornellians in my life. It’s page 531 from an old dictionary. There’s a definition of waffle with an illustration of a new-fangled waffle iron, and the artist has used a waffle iron to burn the paper, leaving the distinctive pattern. A bit of googling reveals that this is the artist responsible for the hat and hair mirrors at ABIA. Cool.
In addition to being funny, it’s also framed nicely. When I picked it up after exhibit was over, it came with the wall tag, so I slapped that on the wall, too. (See the red dot?)
Shame that it isn’t page 527!
I also got some wearable art featuring vintage paper at the same event: “Busy Person” earrings by Baby Jane. Sorry, no pics of that. You’ll just have to see me some day when I’m wearing them.
“Blossoms in the Snow” hung at the Omlettry for months, years, some long length of time judging by who I can remember talking to about it over Thursday breakfast. I kept hinting that it would make an excellent gift; I guess I wasn’t accustom to making slightly extravagant purchases on my own behalf until the unsigned Chagall Psalm 22 lithograph in San Fran got me over that hurdle. (The pic in the banner was taken on the same trip, which was not a great trip, but the pic is great for using as a background in a variety of media–and I still completely love the Chagall.)
Anyway, one day, the painting was gone, and I was upset at having missed the chance to bring it home. When it reappeared, I was elated, but it still took me a couple of months to get around to making the call. Since it was always hanging over the windows in the back room, I’d never seen it up close until I was at Darryl’s studio. The texture makes it even better:
For some reason, it reminds me of Blue Danube china, so I’ve got it in the kitchen for now. It’s a nice change from the Guy Charon Mediterranean village print, but the print is safely under glass, so it’s probably a better choice for the wall next to the stove. I suppose more rearranging is in order. Some problems are more like blessings than like problems.
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14 December 2007 at 3:06 pm
davidamwilensky
1. I just listened to that song yesterday.
2. You’re becoming quite the art collector these days.
14 December 2007 at 3:08 pm
gsmckinney
Well, it’s not going to collect itself…
14 December 2007 at 3:24 pm
gsmckinney
I just figured out where the text in my wearable art earrings came from: a 40s postcard called the Busy Person’s Correspondence Card that features lists of vacation activities, place, moods, etc to check off. There seem to have been lots of these, designed for various locales. In fact, they seem to have been so popular that there were even joke versions, like the Dizzy Person’s Postcard.
My earrings seem to be from the “I spend my time” section of The Asheville Post Card Co. (Card No. 45753) or one from the same series, as the text looks identical.