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Making vintage cards (with antique stories)
My artwork, whatever the medium, is inspired by memories, history, and family (and often my sense of humour). I see connections and follow threads, pulling on some when it strikes me. The art is what happens when I begin to tie those threads together.
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For Love of House and Home
I slept on the floor for 6 months while ripping things apart and only graduated to a bed when I contracted Covid. Too sick to do much else, I sat on a pail in the backyard and refinished an old iron twin bed. I put my mattress on that, made the bed like a grown-up and felt very accomplished. I was finding some joy in getting somewhere, and beginning to love my house sometimes. There were still months to come filled with tears of frustration, yelling into…
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Oops I Did It Again
My patience for video-making has increased…(see my other whiny video post here) although I am sure most people take less than 4 hours to edit theirs. Also, their camera mount probably did not disappear all by itself (that’s right), forcing me to make this thing (now affectionately called the McGyver Cam) that was difficult to position. …Anyway, I now have two videos I am not completely ashamed of. (Sorry Mum, ended that with a prepostion.) Here’s the first one – an unfinished Ode to 91 Fourth Avenue…
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sounds of memory
The other day I was on one of many trips to the lower level of the building where I work. That floor is hard and smooth and showroom-shiny, unlike the quiet carpeted floors above where my office is. A woman was walking down a hall behind me and I could not help focusing on the sound her shoes were making – she had on fairly high heels, fairly dressy (yes, I call them lady shoes) – and she was at that “I have to get something done”…
