LAW 134: Looking For America, part 3

Sorry about being away from here for so long. Life, put simply, as gotten in the way of a regular posting cycle. My friends whom i communicate with primarily by snail mail will testify that my record there is just as bad as this one.

p.17, 6.5.17, Tulsa Ok.

I have been working diligently on a variety of art projects; i have two journal/altered book projects going, Looking for America, see below, and Jerome, A Froggy ABCdarium(more later), a new needlepoint piece, Grandmother Turtle, and a series of signs painted for Middle River Landing Marina.

p18, 6.6.17, Monument Valley, Ut

 I've been a busy girl, all of the above along with the ongoing W.I.P of Tesla's Revenge and simply, the lazy days of summer.

p.19, 6.14.17, Spokane, Wa

So these images are from the third signature of Looking for America.  I created the pages out of city maps found in the index of the 1954 edition of Hammond's Ambassador World Atlas. This is intended to be a daily work project. The formal structure hinges on two questions, have i been here? Questions answered with stream of conscious writing. Could i travel by water in my EV Tesla's Revenge, with zen doodle pen and ink drawings which play off the gird of the street maps.

p.20, 6.15.17, Springfield, Ma

Although i adore the calm, zen qualities inherent in simple black and white line drawings, some times  i just can not deny the color jones'. 

p.21, 6.24.17, Syracuse, NY

Also there is a tremendous difference, in a making sense, between drawing and collage. Almost as if the two techniques use different parts of my brain, or use them differently.

p.22, 6.25.17, Tokyo, Japan

Hard to explain, i think that it goes deeper than the additive/subtractive thing. I have always thought of myself as an additive sort of girl; yet collage certainly has a subtractive element to it, all that paper you cut away....

p.23, 7.7.15, Xochimilco, Mx

p.24, 7.27.17, Worcester, Ma

Have i mentioned i have finished the Firebird piece? That only took a year, not quite.















Enjoy,
more later,
gail