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We burn daylight.

Unheard of

Orecchio
hand-stitching on vintage Japanese book cover
5.25 x 7"


copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Perhaps

As a diptych?

They weren't intentionally a pair. They were actually created in tangent. But they have been sitting next to each other on my work table and it seems natural.

I'm conscious of the fact that my work has been focusing on anatomy, specifically bones. I am intrigued by the structural forms of the skeleton. And I have always been drawn to fragments and pieces rather than the whole. I tend to break things down in my mind when I look at them. I find the pieces more interesting. More elemental.

Vanitas

Agatha (I)
photocopy on graph paper (of brush and ink original) with ephemera
8 x 10"

copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Agatha Christie

Agatha (Inside)
gouache and ephemera with hand-stitching
6.5 x 7"

copyright Kate Castelli 2009

It all adds up

I have been finding numbers on the ground lately. It's very Dada.

Speaking of Dada, I have been engrossed in Dan Franck's Bohemian Paris. It is an art history book that reads like a novel. It examines the tumultuous birth of modern art in the early 20th century in Paris. One can almost imagine lingering in the cafes of Montmatre and Montparnasse and rubbing shoulders with the likes of Picasso, Apollinaire, and Modigliani.

Currently on the studio playlist...

I Grieve / Peter Gabriel
Rainy Day / Coldplay
Mykonos / Fleet Foxes
Electrical Storm / U2
Monkey Gone to Heaven / The Pixies
Haunted / The Moody Blues
Plainsong / The Cure
Numb (New Mix) / U2