MARY's book: comin' home!

OK, so I took 2 spots...

FINALLY, 1 year after it began, HOUSE is comin' home!!!!


There was one full panel, with a window, and a partial panel available (cropped, sorry about that, y'all), and I thought about the range of ways that others before me had interpreted/ responded to the theme of the book. Frankly, y'all are pretty trippy, so I just went with images of waves, which is where I travel when I am in bed trying to sleep at night, a golden window opening to the other side of my subconsciousness of.... nothingness. 

I hogged the spot on the top with an echo to the waves below, and I could not pass the chance to vibe on Petr's stellar use of spray paint/ decapitated heads. Crimson allusions to blood dribbles down the Russian onion domes....

I hope it was worth the wait, Mary!

T R A V E L from Eric

it sez GO

dear friends, 

I have been traveling lately, quite a lot of this travel has been occurring within my own thoughts. It has been pretty heavy metal lately, right? DANG!

• What I wanna know is how often do you have fun?
• Do you play anymore? 

These few moments I have anymore to make art, I come down into my basement studio, and then it's like B * A * M! 

Shit is on!

I am in full support of encouraging more opportunities for playing and having fun. Even tho I am super late with this entry, I do want you to know that I had fun making this artwork. 

• I began to think about when does a piece of paper become an object? 
• Is there some certain level of mark making on a piece of paper that has made it useful for something? 
• Can a piece of paper be a sculpture?

Now it's finally snowing here, so I have to go. We are working on making an igloo in our garden, 3m diameter. It can sleep our family, which we hope to be doing soon. 

Bye!

Eric

Jeane's entry in Mary's "House" book

Another beautifully made and clever idea for a book by Mary!  The cover is collaged and drawn so skillfully, it looks like one piece of printed artwork.  And then it is folded and cut into a book!

Here is the inside with several rooms yet to be filled.

And this famous bedroom.

Jeane's entry in Lisa's "Bright Sparks" book

Here's the box for the books!

Opening the box!

My book!  Front and

Back!  

 Who has been lucky enough to this in the sky?

And the rest of the books!  All done!

Jeane's Book / Petr's Entry

Upon many considerations of how to tackle this über cool book, I opened a scanner and played with my tchotchke. 

Eric in Angela's "FAILURE"

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Guys, fo realz now, tell me if I am a bad person:

I keep telling myself that it's because I am mostly from the USA and that I want to keep my kids in touch with their American roots, but I often find myself at home with the 3 of them in front of the TV and we watch FAILARMY. I mean, if we watch endless amounts of parkour guys jumping off roofs, failing miserably and usually smashing their nuts on something, maybe they will learn NOT to do stuff like that?

I FKED UP AGAIN

I just had to use the OOPS text Lisa added before me.

What a totally awesome book form, Angela! And concept too... although I found it tough to illustrate failure (of course because I am so perfect, :) ) Nah, but on tha realz, failure is a huge part of my studio practice... maybe not failure per se, rather letting go from preconceived/ misconceived ideas about a direction I am trying to head with something I am working on. Yet again, I am thankful for being a part of these rotations and to work together with y'all. \\/

I just got back "DEATH" and 

it's friggin amazing!!!!

Jem's post in Under the Skin

I have been long lost from this blog but here I am...smiling!

This book is seriously fucking awesome. I'm sad to have to send it off as I really want to keep looking and petting. I think I'm going to have to remake my entry just to have on my wall, is it bad to admit I love it that much? Will working on it I kept thinking of the video Jeane shared of the street art event near her...check it out or enjoy for a second time...http://www.nuartfestival.no/home/the-world-s-largest-outdoor-mural---video