Filed under: Cut & Paste, old new, Postcards | Tags: chair, collage, ink, isograph, Kuwait, watercolor
Filed under: Cut & Paste, old new, Postcards | Tags: coat, collage, feminism, guilt, jacket, Kuwait, nathaniel hawthorne, oppression, punishment, shame, the scarlet letter, watercolor
your coat, madam
Filed under: Cut & Paste, old new, Postcards | Tags: collage, ink, insult, Kuwait, parenthood, pig, watercolor
Filed under: old new, Postcards, Watercolor | Tags: antiques, ink, Kuwait, new, old, pen, three, trio, watercolor
Filed under: old new, Postcards, Watercolor | Tags: ink, Kuwait, postcard, sketch, watercolor, wedding
here comes the bride
Filed under: Cut & Paste, old new, Watercolor | Tags: collage, ink, Kuwait, watercolor
sitting, 2010, watercolor and collage on paper, 24 x 32cm
Filed under: Cut & Paste, old new, Rants & Raves, Watercolor | Tags: ash, collage, ink, Kuwait, new, old, pen, rapidograph, tracing paper, volcanic, watercolor
When I work, I sometimes like to fantasize that the piece I’m drawing, painting or collaging was somehow found during an archeological dig or the excavation of a thousand year old church or accidentally under a mound of volcanic ash. I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with antiquities and all things with a history. Maybe it’s because I live in a region devoid of a material, tactile history where it’s out with the old and in with the new and shiny. Everything’s plastic and dispensable and I find myself creating new olds.
Filed under: Cut & Paste, old new, PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition, Watercolor | Tags: collage, ink, Kuwait, pen, rachell ashwell, shabby chic, wallpaper, watercolor
I’ve always loved the look of dilapidated buildings, especially when the inner walls had once been papered or postered. So Rachel Ashwell.
Filed under: Cut & Paste, Experimentation, Favorites, old new | Tags: coincidence, collage, found, Kuwait, objects
We had quite a huge dust storm a few days ago. The next day I found this paper in one of my plants. Just a single sheet of paper, blown away from its book, among other windswept jetsam and flotsam. I picked it up and thought: hmm, I wonder what bit of knowledge/nonsense has been dropped into my bushes. I must say I did a few literary double-takes when my eyes started picking up the words on the page: plants, seeds, rain, semen, birth. Apparently this page is from a chapter or section comparing the planet Earth and its plants to a woman giving birth. Other passages include the sperm of man being compared to raindrops. Anyway I saw the whole thing as a sign somehow and stuck a pretty picture on it.
