Paraph
2015-16
Trust and integrity, the entire thing depends on their silence. Human emotions encapsulated in coloured
envelops, surrounding the thoughts on paper. So many people play a part. The rainbow of colour is the perfect vessel for all the things that humans feel.
Paper is organic covered in swirls and loops of the sender touched by the receiver. The touching through handwriting,
pen and paper across a distance. The effort of write, enclose a letter and mail it makes it a cherished object, a special gift, to be held with a type of reverence.
The paraph, the flourish at the end of a signature marks each individual as unique. Each flourish developed by the mark making.
The signature, a security device, to keep things secure, to validity of documents when written
Writing a letter is an investment in the person you are sending it to and in the system that delivers the mail.
The physical evidence of the letter can remain on this planet for years to come. The receiver gets it free of charge,
no cost to come to your door, no commitment to opening it. If it is from someone that is unwanted by the receiver it can be left unopened,
if it may be hurtful and may leave a mark.
Saskatchewan Craft Council March 23 - May 12, 2018 --- Installation Images
LINK - Previous Exhibition at Saskatchewan Craft Council - Individual pieces
Love Letter Project - February 2018 --- Saskatoon, Installation and process images
Collective Memories
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 72", 90 x 180cm
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Collective Memories
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 72", 90 x 180cm
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Printmaking |
Vanishing
Ink on Dai Printing Paper
10 x 12" each
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Touched - Paper Conversations
Paper Dimensions - 15 x 22"
Image Dimensions - 12 x 16"
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Touched - Paper Conversations II
Paper Dimensions - 15 x 22"
Image Dimensions - 12 x 16"
Linocut
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Touched - Paper Conversations III
Paper Dimensions - 15 x 22"
Image Dimensions - 12 x 16"
Linocut
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Disparaissant
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint and Silkscreen
43 x 35.5 cm
2018
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Disparrisant
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
30 x 30 cm
2017 |
Life's Poetry
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
20 x 19 cm
2017 |
Life's Poetry
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
20 x 19 cm
2017 |
Lines and Spaces
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
35. 5 x 26.5 cm
2017
  
Loops and Swirls
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
35.5 x 26.5 cm
2018
Installation image
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Just Because
monoprints 8 x 10" |
one and one equals three
Ink on Stonehenge
Silkscreen
22 x 32 cm
2017
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Sender and Reciever
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
35 x 26.5 cm
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Darling - It is about 3 o'clock in the morning - I have
been sitting up writing the Marvelous Book!
Had a wonderful torrent of ideas falling over
each other. – Don’t know if they are of any worth.
Astounding what I feel when you
are not here – become suddenly
very severe- don’t care for Eating or sleeping
but filled with lovely feelings and
twice as sensitive to sound and lights colour etc.
It’s all a matter of magnetic forces –
Same things that keep the Earth Circling
about the sun in constant rhythmetical
waves of attraction & resolution making
the Complete Harmony – wonderful.
Aren’t we wonderful –
Love Love Love Love Love
Waves – love waves –
I’ve been writing about dance waves
sound waves light waves –
all the same –
How many thousand miles an hour
do light & sounds waves travel –
So quick travel never – ceasing
love waves from me to you –
and from you to me –
Distance doesn’t matter because the
supply is never ceasing –
Only the near touch is something
too and I want that.
Living with you makes me feel
so Strong I think I could easily
own the Earth –
Isn’t it beautiful.
The transfusion.
I am filled with Force
It is You –
Good Night
Love –
Your
Isa Dora
Isadora Duncan, American dancer, to Gordon Craig, an English actor and stage designer, the son of the great actress Ellen Terry (herself the recipient of much fervent correspondence from Georges Bernard Shaw). The date of this letter is probably March 1905. The couple were intimate for many years, and had a daughter together. The ‘Marvelous Book’ to which she refers at the beginning of the letter is Duncan’s essay ‘The Dance and Nature,’ which contains much allusion to wave movements in nature and life. Source: the New York Public Library for Performing Arts – Dance Collection
Lovric, M. (1997). Passionate Love Letters: An Anthology of Desire: with Facsimiles of Real Letters & Quotations from Lovers' Correspondence Throughout the Ages. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Love Letter Stacks
Clay, Stamps and Ribbon
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Separated by Distance
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
26 x 35 cm
2017 |
Silent Conduit
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
29 x 18.5 cm
2017 |
A Letter Does Not Blush
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
24 x 17 cm
2017
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Confidential
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
35 x 26 cm
2017 |
Speak to Me, I can hear your voice in my head
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
17.5 x 18 cm
2017 |
The Art of Silent Speech
Ink on Masa Paper
Monoprint
35.5 x 26.5 cm
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