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Installations Images - Saskatchewan Craft Council

The touching through handwriting,
pen and paper across a distance.

The effort of write, enclose a letter
and mail it makes it a cherished
object, a special gift,
to be held with a type of reverence.

 

Clay Envelopes

Treasured Letters
Clay, paint, ribbon, stamps and varnish - Handbuilt
5 x 15 x 11cm

 

Murmur
Ink on Masa Paper  - Monoprint

Loops and Swirls
Ink on Masa Paper  - Monoprint and silkscreen

Whispers to the Ear of Your Heart
Ink on Masa Paper  - Monoprint
35 x 26 cm

Just Because… 
Ink on Masa Paper  - (42 prints)
20 x 25cmcm

Touched - Paper Conversation III (edition of 3)
Ink on BFK Reeves - Linocut and Silkscreen
46 x 31

 

Touched - Paper Conversation III (edition of 2)
Ink on BFK Reeves - Linocut and Silkscreen

In Closing
Clay and Paint - handbuilt (3 pieces)
13 x 18 x 18cm

Waves

China Marker on Plastic
152 x 125 x 15cm (2 panels suspended one infront of the other)

Link to Video

Darling - It is about 3 o'clock in the morning - I have been sitting up writing the Marvelous Book!
Had a wonderful torrent of ideas falling over each other. – Don’t know if they are of any worth.

Astounding what I feel when you are not here – become suddenly very severe- don’t care for Eating or sleeping but filled with lovely feelings and twice as sensitive to sound and lights colour etc. It’s all a matter of magnetic forces – Same things that keep the Earth Circling
about the sun in constant rhythmetical waves of attraction & resolution making the Complete Harmony – wonderful.

Aren’t we wonderful –

Love Love Love Love Love Waves – love waves – I’ve been writing about dance waves sound waves light waves – all the same – How many thousand miles an hour do light & sounds waves travel – So quick travel never – ceasing love waves from me to you – and from you to me –
Distance doesn’t matter because the supply is never ceasing –Only the near touch is something too and I want that. Living with you makes me feel so Strong I think I could easily
own the Earth – Isn’t it beautiful. The transfusion. I am filled with Force It is You –
Good Night
Love –
Your
Isa Dora

 

 

Isadora Duncan, American dancer, to Gordon Craig, an English actor and stage designer, the son of the great actress Ellen Terry (herself the recipient of much fervent correspondence from Georges Bernard Shaw). The date of this letter is probably March 1905. The couple were intimate for many years, and had a daughter together. The ‘Marvelous Book’ to which she refers at the beginning of the letter is Duncan’s essay ‘The Dance and Nature,’ which contains much allusion to wave movements in nature and life. Source: the New York Public Library for Performing Arts – Dance Collection

Lovric, M. (1997). Passionate Love Letters: An Anthology of Desire: with Facsimiles of Real Letters & Quotations from Lovers' Correspondence Throughout the Ages. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Various Monoprints
Various Sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

Missing the Landscape of Your Face
Vintage Canada Post Mail Sorting Basket, Clay, paint, string, stamps and varnish - Handbuilit
140 x 140 x 180 (1000s of envelopes various sizes

   
   

Various Collaborative Print

Monique Martin and Frank Vescio