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Stamps’n’Stuff: Postage Stamp Art

Different media and genres can and do coexist. One does not need to out-do, or eradicate all others.
When the studio is dark and cold I work on projects less gooey than oil. One year it was Mattress Art. This year it is stamps.
Collage and doodles are scattered through my journal pages and correspondence. This is an [...]

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Writing Is A Visual Art

When we scrutinize and dissect, sense begins to look a lot like nonsense. And as it does this it informs our ability to begin to decipher how nonsense is constructed, arranged and formulated to appear reasonable. In a world propelled by media this is an important place to begin any discussion.

ʎɔuɐddılɟ puɐ ƃuıddılɟ

˙pǝʇɔǝdxǝun ǝɹɐ ʎǝɥʇ ǝsnɐɔǝq ʇsnɾ unɟ ǝɹɐ sƃuıɥʇ sǝɯıʇǝɯos
˙ǝƃlnpuı ı sıɥʇ ɹoɟ ‘os ˙spɐǝɥ ɹno ɥɔʇɐɹɔs uǝʌǝ ǝqʎɐɯ puɐ ɥƃnɐl sn sǝʞɐɯ puɐ uoıʇuǝʇʇɐ ɹno sǝɥɔʇɐɔ ʇı ʇuǝɯoɯ ɐ ɹoɟ ʇnq ˙ʎlʞɔınb plo ʇǝƃ llıʍ ʇı ˙ʞɔıɹʇ ɐ sı ʇı ˙ƃuıʇıɹʍ uʍop ǝpısdn ǝɥʇ sı ʞǝǝʍ ǝɥʇ ɟo ʞɔıɹʇ ǝʇıɹoʌɐɟ ʎɯ puɐ ˙sǝʇou ǝɯos uǝʇʇıɹʍ [...]

Art Moves In A Fifth Dimension

There is certainly a level of uncertainty as to the content of the transmission. This does not make the arts ineffective communication devices; on the contrary, the arts expose the very real confusion inherent in all communication systems.

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Innovative Thinking Is Learned

Art is a cause, not a result, of creativity.
Saying art is about creativity can harm a comprehensive understanding of art. When we clarify ways of thinking about art we may be able to tap the phenomenal potential that arts provide to learning methods.
The idea of creativity usually evokes the idea of imagination. Imagination may relate [...]

What Is Art Education Good For?

The experience of art making influences our sense of being in the world in both subtle and blatantly obvious ways. Realizing that we do not already know everything about what we are, what we think and what we can do is necessary to all learning and to an evolution of consciousness and civilization.

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Beginning a Project

We don’t always know what will be necessary for completion when we begin. It is better to allow a beginning to happen rather than obsess over how the finished product will look.

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An Example of How Form and Content Entwine

Just* another old photo and/or an old photo functioning as art?
1979
Once upon a time– who took the photo? Maybe AH, since he is missing.
Was this the last time we were together as a group?
Once upon a time, in a high school darkroom, somewhere in Humboldt County— a senior engaged in developing film, adjusting an enlarger, agitating [...]

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Mattress Art

Segment from the Mattress Art Story
I have taken jaunts with multiple media. To name a few, I have had phases working in ceramics, textiles, web and I have an enduring fondness for hardware and bits of junk. All the work crosses paths conceptually, experientially and in ways of form.
In general art is an amalgamation of [...]

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Aleph-Bet Image Calculator

GoTo >>> >> Play with the Aleph-Bet

Here you can select up to 6 letter images to line up as a pattern or word.
Above: Yod and Chet from The Aleph-Bet by Wendy Angel
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