tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post7767176312780830751..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Coincidence? - Documenta 13 Opened Today in KasselStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-29550225664440762782012-06-14T15:09:48.221-08:002012-06-14T15:09:48.221-08:00This found object into art has been called "u...This found object into art has been called "upcycling". I like that.Barbara Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05463074148195784152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-60618552829013911132012-06-14T11:06:33.006-08:002012-06-14T11:06:33.006-08:00Barbara, thanks again. I'm glad the blog has ...Barbara, thanks again. I'm glad the blog has made such a good impression. I hope it lasts over time. :) Actually, I've been posting pretty much daily, but the last couple of weeks I'm having some tension between writing at the level (see the post on <a href="http://whatdoino-steve.blogspot.com/2012/06/blog-quality-standards-blog-maintenance.html" rel="nofollow">blog quality standards</a>) I want and enjoying the summer. <br /><br />Found object artist. I love it on so many counts. The serendipity, the recycling, the creativity of seeing new purpose is trash . . . I know an artist here who has focused on found objects on one particular stretch of beach.<br /><br />Tell your husband hello. 400 sold in four years - that's close to a painting sold every four days. That's pretty good.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-45171313580512135782012-06-14T03:56:54.962-08:002012-06-14T03:56:54.962-08:00This is EXACTLY the kind of post I adore reading f...This is EXACTLY the kind of post I adore reading first thing in the morning. <br />I now see you don't post daily, as you have a (rich outer and inner) life. Still, each post is so nourishing I don't think I could eat them more often.<br /><br />As a found-object/digital graphics artist and conceptual artist (I wrote The Pocket Lint Chronicles -- 450 pages about pocket lint), the sound piece in the German Documenta video ...until I get it right ...struck a real chord (ha.).<br /><br />My husband is an en plein air oil painter and has thrown out more paintings that most artists do in a lifetime. Every day (year round in the woods around Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) he comes back with 2 or 3 paintings and says, "Tomorrow I'll get it right." He has sold 400 paintings since he started 4 years ago -- they are very, very beautiful -- yet he is unsatisfied with most of them. <br /><br />Your photo of yourself is wonderful. I do not think it at all odd you found it<br />when you did. It just means you are in the right place at the right time, doing what you should be doing. Centered.Barbara Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05463074148195784152noreply@blogger.com