recycled cardboard boxes, acrylic paint, Japanese washi, found object, sealing wax, linen thread
Forget your perfect offering
there is a crack in everything
that’s how the light gets in.
– Leonard Cohen
objets trouvés
26.10.12
wooden slab, sawdust, iron staple, wood, nails, text fragments, cement, pva glue, acrylic paints
The mysterious wonder of life is that you just never know where anything is going. . .
– Alice Walker
23.10.12
acrylic on textured board, oyster-bed netting, slate roof-tile
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself.
It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
And the true creator may be recognized by his ability to find about him,
in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
– Igor Stravinsky
16.10.12
stained and distressed canvas, acrylic paints, market basket fragment, sea shells, linen thread
Art’s a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter.
Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind.
Man’s spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
– Irving Stone
10.10.12
acrylic on board, silver leaf, oyster-bed netting, gauze, twine, oyster shell
First thought is best in art.
– William Blake
