Welcome to the fourth edition of The Pulse -- The State of the Art -- a survey in words and pictures of the online artist community. Nearly 150 artists have answered a list of questions which make up The Pulse. Their responses will be presented as a series of online and print projects. Links to the first four projects (Secret Sunday, The Book Guild, StudioScapes, Viewer's Choice) can be found on the sidebar of my blog.
Collectors Edition is the fifth installment in which your favorite artists share their favorite collection or obsession.
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My favorite obsession has to be books. I seem to have been looking at everything differently lately and trying to find the possibility of turning it into a book. I discovered some scrap wood in the garage and have mad several tunnel books. There is a lot to explore with this concept.
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This is a little vignette/collection off the bulletin board in my studio. I love the sacred hearts from Mexico and Central and South America. I don't think I've consciously collected them, they just seem to find their way home with me. The same for hands. Hands and Hearts, it's what it's all about.
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My growing collection of colored pencils and oil pastels.
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I collect everything African from artifacts and books to my gatherings from the countryside around me. Here are just a few of the books in my collection.
The carved artifact is quite a rare Baule mouse oracle from the Ivory Coast. The belly of the pot is divided into 2 levels. The floor of the dividing partition has a hole in it so that the mouse can climb through from one level to the next. When someone consults the oracle the mouse is put in the bottom of the pot and flour, cowries and small bones are spread across the floor of the partition. Once the lid is put on the pot the mouse climbs through the hole and inspects whatever is on the floor of the partition, moving the bones and cowries and leaving imprints in the flour. After a minute the diviner removes the lid and reads the configuration of the bones etc. Oracle consultations can take from as long as an hour to a day.
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Photos of birds on limbs against the sky....
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Blocks. This is about half the collection...maybe I'm getting too many to choose between. Hard to edit!
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50's mags: about 65 magazines from the 50s and 60s I bought some months ago for 6 dollars! I want more!! One of my cats likes them too!
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My vintage school collection. I have an old student desk and school lockers where I store art supplies and lots & lots of old school memorabilia including a round robin "School Days" altered book. When I moved into my studio I had the intention of giving homage to the "Life is the school and love is the lesson" philosophy.
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Partial ampersand collection.
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Next posting: Sunday 01/30/11
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