The Sunday Paper #540
January 19, 2025
The title of this put up comes from a lady in LA who misplaced all the things within the fires. She was quoted on this article, The Unfathomable Lack of Creative Heritage in Altadena, on Hyperallergic. Earlier this week, I used to be listening to an interview with Pico Iyer on Recent Air, who misplaced all of his worldly belongings in a hearth a number of a long time in the past. Since then, Iyer has returned time and again to a Benedictine monastery, the place he practices silent meditation. He spoke about how his life at these retreats is completely different than his each day life, and the way when he’s on a silent retreat, he is ready to replicate on how small we people are, and the way the earth will outlive all of us. He writes about all of this in depth in his new e-book, Aflame.
I additionally acquired an e-mail a few days in the past from LA2050, a community-guided initiative driving and monitoring progress towards a shared imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Los Angeles (since 2011). They’ve produced two guides crammed with sources for these affected by the fires and those that want to assist: a Security and Help Information for Angelenos and this Volunteer & Help Information.
I’m desirous about everybody who has been affected, and I’m hopeful that when we’re capable of transfer via the loss – with the assistance of group – we are able to start once more, and perhaps even sit up for that new clean web page.
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Talking of LA, take a look at the exhibition, Many Small Cuts, at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, now via March 8, 2025. Leigh Suggs created a brand new collection utilizing the method of marquetry, rigorously reassembling scraps of paper that had been discarded from different works into one giant new sheet of paper, the place colours and patterns intersect to type managed chaos. The labor-intensive slicing, assembling, and a spotlight to element yield intricate designs and imagery.
Esemplastic Fog III, 2024 30″ diameter, customized body // Out there at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
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A reader just lately turned me on to the work of Barloga Studios. This San Francisco Bay Space studio produces photographic prints of pure topics printed on uncommon backgrounds, together with handmade paper.
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I had the pleasure of talking with Alyson Stanfield on The Artwork Biz podcast. We talked about my expertise of utilizing an intermittent each day observe as a manageable solution to gas creativity and construct momentum. We do that yearly in my Weave By way of Winter on-line class, which takes place each February. I sit up for taking part on this monthlong problem yearly with the group. We get began in a few weeks – be taught extra concerning the class.
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If you happen to’re in Bangkok, Craig Ancelowitz, who works for Awagami Paper in Japan, is having an exhibition at ATT 19. Strains on Paper runs January 23 – March 30, 2025. Along side Craig’s exhibition, Mieko Fujimori, the grasp indigo artist at Awagami Manufacturing unit, might be providing two workshops on February eighth and ninth. Contributors can have the distinctive alternative to interact with Anczelowitz throughout unique talks, the place they are going to discover subjects starting from design and artwork to Japanese paper, in addition to acquire invaluable insights into the realities of the artistic enterprise world.
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Paper Tidbits
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