--what a wonderful project!--
i recall reading that at one point the young Rauschenberg, without money for suppies, made paintings with dirt--
and just reading great book THE WORK OFJEAN DUBUFFET by Peter Selz, with texts by the arrtist--
(Nerw York: Museum of Modern Art, 1962)
Dubuffet writes of using dirt mixed with other elemnets--and his fascination with dirt, cracks, sediments--
i have done work on some paintings using dirt with spray paint and also went trhough a phase of gluing dirt, tar and resins from trees i rubbed off onto the paper--
also making rubbings offf of dirt formations that were cracked and furrowed, especially around construction sites
and at one point did a lot of pieces in dirt, scratching in signs and symbols in a sort of loose verse form--i had not written in so long my typewriter had rusted in basement lived in--so way back to words began in dirt--
used to make "hudga-mudga" mud pies with my brother as kids, and load them into catapualt we made with very flexible branches from dead wilow trees--hurl them at antagonistic neighbor kids--
Milwaukee where i live is often still called the Cream City--from the cream colored bricks which became very famous and prized around the world--so many old buildings here in a beautiful cream--
now the bricks are no longer made (i think)--and cost a lot--know a man who bought up several thousand to use in building some goawd awuful project-
i will see if i can find some of that dirt--or else if not--a couple different kinds have noticed (sorry i don't know the names of them)
you can also rub dirt onto paper--and mud etc--dust--for amazing effects--
down and dirtyily--
david baptiste
From: "Melissa McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FLUXLIST: Call for Dirt Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:41:11 +0000
I'm looking to do some new work involving the use of earth as a pigment -- just learned the technique, and I'm very enthusiastic. If you will send me some earth -- doesn't have to be much, a ziploc bag-full would be wonderful -- I will send something back in return. Make sure to enclose a return address!
Melissa McCarthy PO Box 6742 Lakeport, NH 03247-6742 USA
Melissa McCarthy Hours: whimsical or by appointment ****>>>Adult, maybe; grown-up, never!<<<**** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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