Demonstrating

I have found it far more useful to demonstrate as a teaching tool than gesticulate and explain.  The students paint with me - they have to keep up as they have an hour in which to complete each painting. (Please bear in mind they are done in about 45 minutes as I still talk and walk while demonstrating!)  Size  60cm x 80cm and these were done on the back of each other.  They are to be cut up and become the basis for a book Back to Back.  Of COURSE I painted Lempika and van Gogh as first port of call.

The Note is NOT Dead.

During the making of the first installment of An Encyclopedia of Everything, I made 4 books in this series.  They are an interesting read - I wrote regarding the first series - Mail art has afforded me a wealth of notes – handwritten in the main, and each giving details of a mailing, or a process, or just a thank you.  

They tell me the circumstances people find themselves in, the exhibitions they have entered, or how they spent some time in summer.  I know if my work received gave pleasure, and most of all, they remind me that the spirit of written generosity is still alive and well.  They are the best part of receiving an envelope.

Unfortunately I can’t return the favor due to calamitous handwriting  - BUT I do try, as well as I may to substitute with typewritten notes.

This is a continuation of that series.  It contains notes from USA, UK, Norway, Finland, Japan, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Netherlands and Germany and Switzerland.

Books to Mikhail Pogarsky (Russia)

A Book Swop for An Encyclopedia of Everything - The Expanded Version

Book Request - a Book in a Match Box - "We're Post Literate and going up in flames"