Good News

My piece "Conversation" has been selected as a Merit winner for student entries and is being featured in Creative Quarterly Issue 12. Look out for CQ12 on newsstands! Check out this link for the complete list of winners in all categories http://cqjournal.com/cq12winners.html

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If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Windows

New sketchbook page.

It scares me. In a good way.

Two Days in May

sketchbook page

gouache and ink with stenciling

6 x 10"

copyright Kate Castelli 2008

Friday the 13th

New sketchbook page.

I am obsessively drawing windows, they have become part of my visual vocabulary of late.

Windows. Looking out of them, looking into them. They are part of the fabric of the city. They are part of the fabric of looking, of observing, of seeing.

Windows
sketchbook page
Earl-grey tea stained photocopy, calligraphy ink
6 x 10"

copyright Kate Castelli 2008

Paris

I woke up this morning and realized that a year ago I was waking up in Paris.

This is a very peculiar postcard I found at a booksellers stall along the Seine. I spent a gloriously sunny afternoon strolling up and down the banks hunting for vintage postcards.

I will return eventually, hopefully soon. But until then, I dream.

Shadows in Harvard Square

I miss Boston.

We always seem to end up in Chinatown

Chinatown- New York City (1 & 2)
sketchbook pages
kraft paper, gouache, ink, and block printing

Recent sketchbook pages that seem to capture some of the vibrant chaos. And my new fascination with windows.

Currently listening to:
Violet Hill - Coldplay
Monkey Gone to Heaven- Pixies
I Almost Killed You- Billy Bragg
Girls- Death in Vegas
Everything in its Right Place- Radiohead
Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

(copyright Kate Castelli 2008)

Yellow, Red, & Black

My color palette of late has been yellow, red, and black. My muse has returned and I have at least been in the studio for the last couple of weeks. It feels good to finally do work for myself and not for anyone else.

I have been doing some exploration with the more abstract elements in my work. I've been printing lino blocks over different ephemera to play with layers of texture. I've also been looking at the separate elements and trying to sequence them in non-narrative ways (such as size and color). It involves me happily laying out bits and pieces on the studio floor and staring at them in my bare feet.

This small accordion book (3 x 22" , with each page being 1.125 x 3") is an experiment in collecting, layering, and ordering.
















Detail of several pages. Vintage paper, block prints, gouache, Quink, and hand stitching. (copyright Kate Castelli 2008)