Altered cards, recent

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 Altered ,old school cut and past, celestial postcards.

Small collages - MailArt & a mitt

Altered Picasso

A proposed poster

altered graffiti - photo by Brassai

I made a few altered postcards recently to send off to specific people and one was a result of a prompt during October http://creativesprint.co  I'm posting my Mitts because I just re-opened my Etsy shop http://FritziMim.etsy.com  Which came about because I can't sell my mitts in-person during the pandemic at the usual holiday "shops." My honey suggested I re-open and it's been quite fun to see that people are actually buying stuff from it. Yay commerce, yay my compulsion to knit.

wool mitts with pompoms

 

Altered Cards

Our daughter gifted me with a set of postcards to old typewriters. Very exciting for me as I love typewriters and own two old ones. 

But what to do with them. I held on to these cards for a number of months then decided to created random word poems. 

Works for me. How about you?

 

Alter postcards

 I cleaned up my work table and did some re-organizing of things, which made me more eager to spend this morning in the studio. I found two identical cards - Henri Laurens (1885-1954) A collage he created in 1915. It seems that I got the card at the Pompidou center in Paris. Why two identical cards, I don't know, but I'm happy about it now.  I altered them with the addition of circles. Playing with Josef Albers idea of transparency. Can you see what I did?

Altered Postcards - Suwannee River

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 I came across several of the same postcards in my collection of boring postcards. These sat on my work table for awhile before I decided what to do with them. Ah hah, perfect for the shells I'd been cutting out of Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.

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On the reverse:
The townspeople gathered, each spring, on the shore of the Suwanee River to watch the shell flotilla as it passed by.

A fun day of altering vintage postcards!

2020-14

The enormous shell appeared on day. No one knew who put it there or even how it was put there. It was quite an inconvenience. Too heavy to move, it remained there.

2020-15

When John Oliver popped over the door, several passers-by fainted and one was heard to say- "oh, dear."

2020-16

They were startled out of their boat when the large painting appeared floating in the calm lake.

2020-17

It was never discovered who placed the large shell on the monument. It appeared one day. Children loved to listen to the sound of the sea.







The large shell appeared one day and there-after was used as a marker - "go past the house with the shell and turn left at the next corner."

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2020-19

A large painting was installed on the lawn as part of The Landscape Beautification Project. Visitors found it saccharine and unappealing. It remained for years.

Landscape Beautification Project - new series 2019

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 The Landscape Beautification Project places large art works into the landscape to offer the public an unusual viewing experience.

Sometimes, it's quite disconcerting, such as the Dam project.

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At times, the installation presents a monumental headache but so far there have been no fatalities amongst the installers or the viewers.









This project will continue as long as the appropriate images can be secured for specific locations.

Ah, yes, it's definitely been site specific.

If you have any suggestions as to artists or locations, feel free to contact the LBP.