Glad to hear that Dale enjoyed Marrakesh, as I'd told her she would love it - a terrible responsibility. Tomorrow I will look for my best pink wall photo and get it in before she does.
Other Maggie. Glad you are enjoying the Val pics. You are right - her work is pretty well timeless. It was quite emotional manning the stand and I still haven't been able to read all the comments in the book.
I've been drooling over Lynda Monk's dressels. http://www.purplemissus.blogspot.com/ Such a clever combination of vessel and clothing. This one could run and run. I love wordplay and clever titles for work. Cindy Hickok does some wonderful ones. I remember one of hers called simply Saints that showed a line of draped, sepia figures with halos and in the middle was a harassed mum with a baby and two toddlers, wielding a broom and a chicken. Magic!
With this in mind I'd like to introduce you to my Handbook. An altered book with lots of drawing, painting and danglies, all somehow concerned with hands.
And below is a detail of the cover - a little piece of Tyvek ironed over a stamp. Then set into the cover with Paper Perfect. I do like things to look as though they are set into a surface, rather than plonked on.
I like to search out strange hands in strange places. The one below was found in a suburb of Sydney called Newtown - my son lives there. It's a very vibrant, multicultural place with lots of eateries spilling out onto the pavements. This hand was a plastic stencil to be used for hand painting. I painted it and then put the heat tool on it, at which it all but disappeared.
Every time my friends go somewhere exotic they bring me a hand. Jane Wild is an especially good hand finder and lots of them come from her wanderings.
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This hand is hidden in a little pocket - one needs surprises hidden in a book. It opens out to show the hand.
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looks like I will have to be fast with the pink wall, Maggie but I do like the hands - preparing for the long flight home - Dale
Aaagh.....Oooogh, Maggie sorry you've been ill.....I want to touch that beautiful book.
Hope you will yourself back soon!
When I was first introduced to Val's and yours art, I was very much impressed by the energy and the modernity of your pieces. Then I saw pictures of both of you, well how to say it, I was a bit surprised, and then I thought that age inside was more important than age outside, and that both of you were definitely very young; And I hope i will get as young as you.
This is to be taken as a compliment, even if I don't express myself very well.
Wow! Your book is marvelous. I love the textures and colors. It's just gorgeous.
What a great book Maggie--HANDsome if I must use a HANDle to describe it.
I just knew you'd like Newtown - my son lived there until a couple of years ago (he now lives in the Blue Mountains) and I visited many times. There is a little Chinese variety store near the Post Office in King Street which I can recommend as a source of the type of desirable object referred to by my son as "Mum's junk collection".
It is gorgeous Maggie, I agree with you that it is some much better to set it into a surface than let it plonk out, but that is also very difficult. I am always affraid that I will blow over the piece. Any good tips?
That gorgeous book! Maggie, you're a wonder. I do hope you're feeling better.
Maggie, I have just come across your blog, and it is great. I too just love the book. I must check out 'altered books' are they any old hardbacks that are given a new life by painting the pages and altering their future? I shall now be up all night reading....................
Ann
Wonderful use of hands! My bedside reading for the mornings, not the night, thats a novel, are your books and Val's as there is so much to take in and so much I forget so need it all re enforced.
Hope you are now much recovered, I missed the mostly daily blog.
Sorry to hear you have been poorly Maggie.. not nice at all.
I love the altered book. Pat and I were just discussing hands in artwork yesterday funnily enough.
So many lovely textures and surfaces in there... need to see it now! I am off now to see if I can get some mildew out of some fabric pieces I dyed....I thought they were dry but obviously not! Dorothy
Love the "Hand Book" Maggie... Scrummy colours and textures.
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