Insonne

Sleepless. Again.


MFA (Andrea Della Robbia) sketchbook page
pen and ink and vintage tissue paper
4 x 7"

copyright Kate Castelli 2009

Density

I'm thinking of going back to Paris.

Preparations: Artists Sketchbooks and Journals

Sketchbook No. 5 (Autumn 2007-Spring 2008) was selected to be part of Preparations: Artists' Sketchbooks and Journals. The first half of the show is currently on view at the College at Brockport, SUNY through October. The show will be on view at the Downtown Gallery at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in December.

On oranges

I was recently watching a documentary on the Berlin Airlift. They had interviewed a man who was a small child during the blockade. He recounted the spring day when the blockade was lifted and trucks poured into Berlin. The children of the city lined the streets and the drivers threw them fruit and sweets. This little boy had waited all day to get an orange, but he never caught one. He returned home dejected only to find that his mother had somehow found the magical fruit. The man's voice cracked as he remembered, "She had cut open the orange like a lotus flower."

And I couldn't help but think what a heartbreakingly elegant way to describe an orange.

Tonight

Quiet invasion

Who are you?

Harvard Square.

Living out of cardboard boxes

I'm unpacked (finally). And this is an ode of sorts to the humble cardboard box.

Alan Fletcher devoted a whole chapter in his book Picturing and Poeting to compositions he made using cardboard box elements.

I have the magpie's advantage of living in the city where recycling day is a treasure trove of typography, found poetry, and bananas.