The Sunday Paper #531
November 10, 2024
In 2016, I created a collection of watermarked Phrase Broadsides. Listed below are two, and you’ll click on by means of to view all 6 of them, in addition to my sentiments about every phrase.
EQUALITY: I’ve been considering rather a lot about equality (for years truly, however the 2016 election and ladies’s marches introduced my ideas to the forefront). There are such a lot of methods to consider equality: girls’s rights, human rights, sexual and gender bias, spiritual freedom, revenue inequalities, and so on, and so on, and so on. Why can we really feel highly effective; when can we really feel weak? That is my humble try to voice my emotions by means of a love of letterforms, watermarks and design. The foundation is love, the letters are blooming, and I used to be delighted to find the grid/ladder that fashioned when the roots of the letters intertwined with the rainbow earth on the base of the picture.
CONTINUUM: I really like how the picture lies subtly throughout the sheet of paper and with out backlighting, is barely barely seen. I usually consider my ancestors and descendants and the way my life suits into the continuum. The picture to me conjures a labyrinth-like path that we have now all walked/are strolling/will stroll.
Carry on preserving on my mates. Sending love, all the time.
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Linda Marshall of Washi Arts was impressed by my latest conversations about Japanese papers (washi). She says: “First, after her latest journey to Japan, Helen highlighted papers made in Echizen and Mino; subsequent in her podcast with Paul Denhoed who resides in Japan and spoke in regards to the Oguni papers; and at last in her latest podcast with Nancy Jacobi of the Japanese Paper Place, who shared her ardour for all Japanese papers and highlighted Sekishu, Seichosen and Seikosen in addition to Oguni papers.”
These papers are all stocked in North America and are thrilling supplies for artists, bookbinders and printmakers to work with. Please discover this distinctive vary of Japanese papers and the assortment packages that you would be able to experiment with.
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In about 1995, I had the chance to work with a producer who made movies for Sesame Avenue. He created this enjoyable movie at Dieu Donné Papermill, the place I used to be working on the time. I nonetheless bear in mind assembly him someplace on the streets of NYC on my bicycle – he needed to share the catchy jingle he wrote – in all probability on a walkman. I used to be grinning ear to ear s I listened.
Somebody introduced up this movie within the Q&A after a lecture I gave a few weeks in the past. Afterwards, a younger girl named Harper, who’s at the moment finding out on the College of Iowa Heart for the E-book (UICB), informed me that she received desirous about papermaking when she noticed a brief movie throughout childhood. She’d forgotten the place she’d seen it, however after I mentioned you could possibly google “papermaking on Sesame Avenue” that day, she did, and she or he realized it was this movie that led her to papermaking! How cool is that?!
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I discovered this artist’s speak by Could Babcock to be a breath of recent air, particularly this week. She creates pulp work with pure supplies, and displays on the method and her time spent in nature.
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Paper Tidbits
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About Our Sponsor: Washi Arts, positioned within the Pacific Northwest (USA) is a specialty retailer of tremendous Japanese papers, instruments and provides and a retail companion of The Japanese Paper Place in Toronto, Canada. Targeted solely on papers from Japan, proprietor Linda Marshall curates and shares a tremendous vary of handmade and ornamental sheets as nicely adhesives and specifically instruments for e book and paper artists.
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In My Studio Store
As the vacations strategy, I’m that includes a number of merchandise in my on-line store.
In 2021, I created an artist’s e book, known as Intensio. I’ve six totally different string drawings that I’m providing as artist’s proofs, which could be framed or folded and saved as a movable object. (1-3 signed and numbered copies of every picture can be found). Click on on the primary picture to entry the web page the place you may view (and buy) all six drawings.
