Hello lovely ladies!
Happy Mid-April! J I hope that your world is full of sunshine and happy today!
This week I thought I’d chose to introduce you to an artist who has done some interactive work. I like art that involves the viewer!
Sally Sheinman who was born in the US but I think she’s living in the UK now. She’s a painter and a paper artist, and she does a lot of projects made up of many pieces – so instead of one big painting, she might make hundreds of small ones that relate to each other. Very fun!
One of her major recent projects was a series of 6 “wishing booths” – these happy, bright colored boxes that people could step inside, and they were full of little nooks and crannies that had pretty little objects in them, and you could leave a wish inside by writing it on a sticky note (or sometimes even on the booth itself)…and then as other people came in, they could read the wishes that the people who were there before them had left behind…which made these lovely little boxes a very special place full of shared dreams; I love that so much.
Some of the wishes were things like “I wish my mom would let me have a dog.”, some were about changing the world by ending cancer or racism, some were wishes to be different…everyone that came into the booth got to leave a wish that meant something special to them, and when the project was over, all the wishes were put on-line.
She also did a lovely project called “days”, where she made 365 little boxes, each one different, to represent the things that happened on each day over a year of her life. Visually I think this is especially amazing, because it shows how different one day can be from the next – you could be shiny pink polka dots with frilly strings today and so-blue-it’s-almost-black tomorrow, and they’re both lovely and interesting bits of who you are.
There’s a quote from Sally that I appreciate a lot – she said “I really dislike the belief that every piece of art work requires an explanation. If most people do not get it, then I believe you have failed as a visual artist.” And that’s very cool – it tires me out sometimes how people are so focused on meaning behind art. Sometimes art is about the emotion that you get from seeing something that’s beautiful to you, and what it means to you might be something completely different than what it means to me, and I’ve always thought that was a really good thing. So I think Sally is pretty cool.
And that’s it for this week – I am hoping that today is full of beautiful wishes for you.
Know that I love you and think that you’re awesome.
Hugs and Kisses,
Auntie Paula
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