Tag: wax
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DIY digression: bookmaking
One of the purposes of this blog is to sort through and prioritize intriguing notions and sources. I have an ongoing fascination with investigating how things work. (Hint: that’s a useful lens through which to analyze my art. It tends to be more about figuring out than advocating.) This blog is one approach to that,…
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Mail art #3: Wax seals yet again
First and foremost, thank goodness for the occasional light-hearted project like this one with which to leaven everything else. I was dared to construct a wax seal larger than my usual 1 in. diameter. I decided that this meant I had to make one in excess of 4 in. With so much more surface area…
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Coming clean, part 2
[continued from Coming Clean, part 1 ] On August 2, I was allowed to use the window display space on the 8th floor of 333 S. Broad St. (aka the floor on which all the MFA painters have their studios). In the window hung an ambiguous love letter from which dangled impressions of each seal…
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Coming clean, part 1
A significant part of my studio work this summer took the form of a light-hearted prank. I wanted a puckish rather than stinging tone, which took a lot of planning since I rarely allow myself the liberty of pranking. Doing so this summer was part of a desire to set up more interactive and collaborative…
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Encaustic fad
I need a better term for this than hive mind. I know it’s part of a larger art fad, but how is it that four people in this program decided to toy with encaustics at the same time but independently of one another? I was only familiar with the painterly approach, so the more collage-…
Colleen Wampole 