WW5: Ah, Motherland!

this is interesting

http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=541&fid=6&sid=17

Mother of God
Are gods and goddesses immune to the ravages of time or are they an intensified reflection of our own fears and frailties? For example, do we perceive Mary as an ageless, timeless virginal young mother who never ages, always chaste and pure, or a mother who must endure the persecution and death of her son endlessly throughout time? and as mother of god take on the world’s cycle of suffering and death?

The piece I have created for the Mother of God exhibit began as a printed book project. The story is a playful look at our obsession with beauty, youth and mortality-the ultimate anti aging product with powers that enable it to rejuvenate the dead. My piece for this exhibit is a cyclical story of death and resurrection that takes place in my version of ancient Egypt. In this story Anubis (usually a god but in this tale a goddess) prepares the miraculous formula that will restore the mummy queen’s beauty. The formula is made with honey, The other side of the book is a rebus puzzle for the viewer to “read”. I like to explore play in my work, and was happy to find that Egyptians also incorporated rebus puzzles on some of their tombs and statues. I have been exploring the world of bees in my work for a while, and this has been one of the inspirations for the work in this residency. The Queen bee takes on a godlike role of mother and creator for the hive-she lays all of the eggs. Worker bees feed the larvae in the hive; eggs that will become the next queen are fed royal jelly for their entire incubation, other larvae are fed royal jelly a few days and then switched to honey and pollen. Honey is a natural preservative, and the Egyptians used honey in the mummification process.

Participating in the Mother of God residency has been a wonderful opportunity to share the artistic process with a group of women artists, exchange ideas about feminism and art.
Over the course of the 6 weeks my book project grew to include a larger set of monotype prints. The small accordion books are printed using both linoleum block printing and silkscreen.

If you have not already sent me your materials please do so very soon!!

Again I need:
**blurb for the handout (in 3rd person)
**a pic for the handout (square no bigger than 300 x 300 pixels is fine)–i will crop to a square if you don’t.
**price of your piece
**information for the wall labels

**artist statement — i will review these and keep them on file. I will then ask that you print two of these and bring them for the binder
**other materials for the binder : resume, previous work images, postcards etc (please bring in duplicate as we will be compiling TWO binders)

ok see many of you this sunday…please remember to forward that press release and e-mail blast invitations to the opening (i will be sending this out very soon–with directions!)

Doris

found this, so glad i’m using ivory soap for this piece.

anyone have any more weathered clothespins for me?

Okay, i can’t believe i am stuck on this, but i am having title trouble. I am calling the small printed piece THe Bee Book, but i don’t know what to title the floor piece. Any words of wisdom? HAving a sort of narrative, and being a pictorial work, it seems sort of lame to me to just say “untitled” Normally a title of a work develops as i go, i don’t usually have to work this hard.
I am sorry i will not be able to make it this Sunday-how many of the group are installing then? I may try to pop by, i like the idea of installing together, but i really need to get to the printshop! I am confident i will finish in time, so not as stressed, but i still have lots of work to do!

My next posting will be my artist statement and i would love feedback from any of you and Ingrid.

Eileen, Thank you for the weathered clothes pins.

Liz, Thank u for the rope.

I am honored*

All three sculptures are tweaked.  The modeling looks pretty good to me.  I still have some more painting to do (because I caught a disgusting cold this week, but I’m better).  I’m very close to being finished.  I also have my eye on some warmer lighting.  Maybe I should try to stop by the gallery space on Friday afternoon/evening to pick up cards, etc. (please advise — will anyone be there?).  If emails have gone out, I haven’t gotten any! 

I have a bunch of artist-statement done too, but I feel like it’s too much about my stuff, not enough about what ‘mother-of-god’ could mean.  I plan to down some nighttime cold remedy and go to bed early, so I can get up early, to write. 

and i am still in the middle of it, i was having crazy silkscreening troubles today-one of those everything that could go wrong will-but thankfully was not snowing when i left the city with all my art stuff.
I have a borrowed end table that i dropped of at Mana to place my book on. And i have been thinking about the floor. I was considering creating a circle of sand for the piece to sit on. Any thoughts?

Jen and Michelle-i didn’t see your image postings. I like the idea of the pieces in the lobby relating to the show title. The 2 pieces i have are works on paper and not framed, so i do no know if they would be a great choice anyway.

eileen

Hi all,
Here are a few images from the final crit, I will post some more later, since for whatever reason this process of upload is really slow. I will be bring my camera to document my work on Sunday the 25th. If you want some photo documentation of your piece also, let me know, I will gladly help out.

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