I ran into a post of Mail Art by Sue Angebranndt a while ago. Then for Christmas the book she discussed arrived from my friend Cathy. Not a coincidence, I suspect.
I have decided to try to start mail art exchanges with a few friends while I am meeting the demands of a chemotheraphy session. I will post examples as they arrive.
Another chance to embrace Beginner’s Mind!
April Vollmer (standing in the foreground of the first photo) came up from New York City to give a weekend workshop at Peregrine Press. She gave the members a thorough introduction to Japanese woodblock printing (moku hanga). We carved our blocks and printed an edition of ten (samples shown below). It was a busy day and a half! Many thanks to Lou Lipkin (on the left in the photo) for making this dream come true.
Watch this animation. It portrays the formation of chromosomes and the production of proteins. If you studied this stuff in high school or college, it’s a great knitting together of information. If you haven’t studied this stuff, here’s a good place to start.
Prince Edward Island was a visual tonic.
I’ve tried to resist, but some of the clothes the New York Times is showing for Fashion week are just like a happy dream. I’m not sure if they’d be fun to wear, but oh, to touch them and to dream of making them!
It’d be easy to spend hours gawking virtually.
From a recent post at Cathy Miranker’s blog, Bookmaking for Kids:
After we do the folds for the first time, I often have everyone ball up their books and toss them into recycling. When we do it a second time, I pass around my big, red stamps and let the kids label their efforts with a single word, DRAFT. Sometimes the third book is set aside for drafting, too. So by the fourth time around, I’ve got a roomful of experts, swiftly producing crisp folds, edges and corners neatly aligned, without a word from me.
We are planning work for Fall 2009.
Was it the foggy rainy weather or a July 31 deadline that fueled the work?
I’m curious to see if there is any reason whatsoever to post from an iPhone.
