VendArt

My submission for VendArt at Wild Goose Creative!



Wild Goose bought this vintage cigarette machine that is now dispensing art! My little boxes contain a "photo puzzle." Six little cards have a small photograph and its description on one side, and the other is a puzzle piece to a large photograph. When all six cards are flipped over in the right order, you have yourself a 6x6 print that you can glue together and frame! The prints contain selected images from my website here. Because of my love of packaging I had so much fun doing these.

The studio has a big event coming up this weekend, so if you're there, get yourself a lil box o' art. It only costs $3.

The art show reception

Ruminating.

I think this may have been the first art show that CJ was genuinely pleased with his participation. He really enjoyed Kidz Artz, but there seemed to be something about the process of working on this piece and how difficult it was to muster up the idea and then how to carry out the execution and all the procrastinating, and all the self-doubt and all the... well you know what I mean. I think he began to appreciate the process of making something. Or maybe not. It's hard to tell. He's not quite 8 years old.

All I know is that once he decided what he was going to do his focus was stellar. It was all the warming up that seemed the most difficult. It didn't take much cajoling, cheering, or mothering to get him to work on his piece, and in the end I think he was pleased with the end result. And then came the questions. And the introspection. And a little self-admiration with what he had accomplished.

"People are asking me about my artwork!" he says.

"Well what did they ask?" I say.

"Oh I don't know," he shrugs. "Just like, what does the story mean and things like that."

"And what did you say?"

"I don't know. I didn't know what to say. I just walked away."

What can we all say about our own art anyway. We just do it.