IMAGINAL CARDS
2 1/2" x 3 1/2" Cards helping to learn more about The Imagination
Daniel Mack's Recent Cards
Early July 2010 at Omega
Late June, Shakerag in Tennessee
Early October, 2009, I made 16 cards after finding a roadkill inspiration with a theme based in RED: a recently ripped favored shirt, parts of my old stamp collection and a recently encounterd creature. I added some ink. Here are four of the sixteen:
Early October, 2009, after I found my First Communion prayer book from 1955. I ripped the pages from it to work with:
Hmmm, why I did I become a Woodworker?? Do I look like this??
During a workshop in late September, 2009
These next two cards were made from a Christmas card from an estranged part of the family 9.25.09
Mid September 2009: Dried hibiscus flowers, snake skin sheds, wisteria seeds, old postcards and envelopes, and reds
Early September 2009
Four cards from the Bulk Work, then a photobooth photo from 1981, dried Japanese maple leaves, dragonfly wings, paints and a fingerprint
Late August-Early September 2009
September 6, I had a gallon of Chinese Red paint from an old job... I ended up doing a batch of 45 cards to keep working on. Take a look:
a few details:
September 1-5 Black, paints, tissue, feather
August 29-30 threes cards with old camp blanket, dried irises, japanese maple leaves
August 26-28: 5 cards with sketelized leaves, canvas tape measure, paints, labels, maple seeds
August 21-22 at the Woodlanders Gathering
COMMENTS
Making these cards is like being in a pool. This is not a lap pool, or an Olympic pool; Actually, it's a swamp. It requires patience with your self, with all your voices. It may require a accidental or coincidental contact with someone, some place, some thing... that scratches you into a new awareness... We are looking for portals that are never in the same place. Alertness is your ally.
BEYOND CARDS: Try an Accordian Book
MORE:
http://community.livejournal.com/artist_cards/
http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/newstuff.html
http://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/
http://www.europeanpapers.com/ supplies, papers, sleeeves for Cards
http://www.imaginalinstitute.com/imaginalcards.htm
