morning collage/watercolor
responding to the objects on my table
Geoff Young chap book
paste paper folder
tangled threads
or the grey outside
greyed:
palest grey to white
violet grey
pink cosmos grey
violets dropped in milk grey
a drop of cobalt blue grey
orangesicle ice cream grey
sunpoked through yellow grey
old yellowed newspaper grey
grey green sky portends rain
“The human eye can perceive over a million different varieties of color, but the human brain has better things to do than name them all.”
“Newton segmented the spectrum into just seven named colors:
the classic ROY G BIV divisions.”
“While this might have seemed arbitrary, much later research by anthropologists concluded that most cultures at least have names for
black, white, red, green, yellow and blue:
six basic color terms typically in that order, as if there were an innate hierarchy.”
[ from Neil Parkinson, “The History of Color: A Universe of Chromatic Phenomena”]
The Dandelion's pallid Tube
Astonishes the Grass
And Winter instantly becomes
An infinite Alas--
The Tube uplifts a signal Bud
And then a shouting Flower
The Proclamation of the Suns
That sepulture is o'er
Emily Dickinson
8 November 1881
Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller
Emily Dickinson poem sent as a letter. Note the impression of a dandelion on the page. American Antiquarian Society.
Spotted this dandelion a few weeks back.
Dandelion viewing Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight
Dandelion.
Dandelion and Violets. Two of Dickinson’s favorites
90,000 artifacts (textiles, ceramics, furniture, ironwork….)
20,000 American & European imprints
3,000 record groups of manuscripts, trade cards, photographs, ephemera
7,500 plant specimens
1,000 acres
+Specialists, Conservators,
+Librarians, Archivists,
+Curators, Gardeners,
+Scientists, Fellows
“Research is a material”
and earlier this year,
as a Maker-Creator Fellow,
I explored Winterthur's Shaker collection
(and others) and loved every second
of researching, working with archivists,
conservators, curators,
fellows and librarians;
and walking on their incredible grounds.
Artists & Makers
consider applying for
Winterthur’s Maker-Creator Fellowship!
Happy to answer any questions.
Applications due 1/15/2024
Application info right HERE
fabric pieces include chair and rug tape & old cloth
sleeping mats & ottomans made from ‘plarn’ aka recycled plastic shopping bags
images from the exhibition, The Alchemy of Re.Use curated by Hettler.Tullmann for the Shaker Museum and on view at the Knitting Mill in Kinderhook NY
Thanks to Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon for the panel discussion about reuse and the necessity to make with one’s hands and use what we already have in hand.
