Art Every Day Month: November 3rd

3 November 2009

Creating(front), originally uploaded by Leah Virsik.

To create everyday and then document it, not just think about it…that’s the challenge I accepted when I took on Leah Piken Kolidas Art Every Day Month challenge. I wanted to have a good excuse to blog more. Plus, it’s a great reason to connect with other creatives.

It’s interesting what comes up… what to post, what to create… we’ll see how it goes…

The image above came out of inspiration from Carolee Gilligan Wheeler and Jennie Hinchcliff’s book Good Mail Day. Mail art is really interesting. You create it and send it out into the world. I like that.

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  1. Julie Jordan Scott
    Posted 4 November 2009 at 8:21 am | Permalink

    Mail art: wow. I need to try that, too.

    I am looking forward to getting to know you through Art Every Day Month.

    Thinking… I have a poetry pen pal… what if I had a visual art pen pal… or just sent visual art our randomly via the mail. Interesting thought…

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  2. Leah - Creative Every Day
    Posted 4 November 2009 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

    Oh, I just love how the word is surrounded by stitching. It looks so cool!

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  3. linda
    Posted 5 November 2009 at 2:09 am | Permalink

    Mail art is definitely fascinating… and who wouldn’t like to receive a dolled up piece of mail? Beautiful work!

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  • Artist statement

    I’m hungry to learn and it’s through my process of creating that I’m ultimately satisfied. I’m curious about different materials and take on the challenge to incorporate what I’m most drawn to into my work. I’m intrigued to discover the resulting patterns and repetition. As I create, I explore my inner landscape. I’m attempting to uncover a stifled sound. It’s my challenge to express this internal voice through my art and ultimately, boldly, out loud.

    My quest to connect my voice with my work has led me to reexamine my personal history. The threads in my bookbinding and in my collage are entwined in my familial roots. Growing up, I remember a quilt frame my dad made, taking up our entire living room. His grandmother taught him to quilt using scraps of clothing. Years later, I began a quilt when a friend was teaching a class on patchwork. To my surprise, cutting up fabric and piecing it back together reminded me of my work with paper collage.

    As a child I would sew with my mom and what I most remember is the guilt I’d feel as I jammed up her machine. Now, when the threads and material bunch up they become useful fodder for my work. In some ways the threads act as a binding element, as in my books, and in other ways they are a reflection of my internal processes.