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8 - Imagine
I wanted to make a piece in honour of John Lennon today. It's been 30 years to the day when he was murdered. I was born in the year that he died, and do feel sad that I shared the Earth with this talented man for such a short time.
When I was young I never grew up with music, but my oldest brother brought home a Beatles album one day and that was all I listened to for years.
The drawing was inspired by the cover to Imagine and the images came from a postcard from a recent exhibition on Beatles photography. In the background you may also notice that the Thames disappears quite abruptly around Embankment. This was a collage of a very limited edition experiment by the Tube to remove the Thames from the underground map ;last year, which met with public outcry. The Thames has now been restored
Fi's #1: sad about losin' john
30 years ago today we lost John Lennon. I was 25. No artist's death has meant more to me. It was just so tragic. He was happy, and he was making music.
The likeness is kinda lame, but there's feeling in it. This is the back of an envie going to the Western Cape of South Africa.
Since I'm new, I guess I'm 'sposed to introduce myself. I'm Fiona "Fi" Webster (Fi is pronounced "fee"), a 55-yr-old nonfiction writer, artist, & retired physician. I'm from Houston, Texas, but right now I live in Maryland--just outside the DC Beltway. I've been doin' mail art all my life, I guess, but only thinking of it as "mail art" =smile= since early 2009. My quiver of techniques doesn't have many arrows in it yet, but I hope to add more with time. This 365 thing will be a great excuse for experimenting!
Speakin' of experimenting, if anyone wants to try out their mail art on me, my address is on my page at IUOMA. =grin=
The likeness is kinda lame, but there's feeling in it. This is the back of an envie going to the Western Cape of South Africa.
Since I'm new, I guess I'm 'sposed to introduce myself. I'm Fiona "Fi" Webster (Fi is pronounced "fee"), a 55-yr-old nonfiction writer, artist, & retired physician. I'm from Houston, Texas, but right now I live in Maryland--just outside the DC Beltway. I've been doin' mail art all my life, I guess, but only thinking of it as "mail art" =smile= since early 2009. My quiver of techniques doesn't have many arrows in it yet, but I hope to add more with time. This 365 thing will be a great excuse for experimenting!
Speakin' of experimenting, if anyone wants to try out their mail art on me, my address is on my page at IUOMA. =grin=
