It has been several days since I've had the luxury to follow links, to discover. On a twitchy morning, which is how this began but not how it continues, the sight of the extraordinary and labor-intensive prods me to mutter insults like "slacker" to myself. How mean, how unpleasant. Who would spend time in the company of someone just like the library supervisor who used to glare from her desk, mouth pinched in disapproval, at too much hilarity. Clearly, any two people who could find something to laugh about during the typing of catalog file cards were at best to be frowned upon and at worst to be reprimanded. It is much too early in the day for criticism. I'll replace it with admiration for soaring imagination and skill and use it, not as a cudgel, but as a springboard for my own elevated thoughts
du jour.
Take your fresh and eager young hearts to see
this work at Jay Anderson's blog. A brief, intricate and magic-affirming video awaits. Books by the featured artist, Rebecca Dautremer, may be found
here.
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| Author, artist Rebecca Dautremer, I highly recommend "The Secret Lives of Princesses." |
For
today's post, Jay interviews Viv Sliwka of Hen's Teeth Art, an example of whose envelope art follows. (The link no longer takes us to the Hen's Teeth story but
here is a link to Viv's etsy shop, just in time for, well, whatever you want it to be in time for.)
My personal bridges over troubled water require color, humor, simple joy, a deft hand and a facile mind. An envelope from Hens Teeth meets all my needs. And apropos of a Simon and Garfunkel hit, last month on her blog
37 Paddington, Angella offered those of us of a certain age the chance to rekindle our collective passion for the pair and the soundtrack they gave us. A
post worth visiting.
