Day 2997: Off kilter.

 

"Off kilter": old photos, junk mail collage & digital.

 

 

 

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Update:

 

Grandson tome with Grandhunks 2 & 3.   Their idea, their time and I am in heaven.  We decided on Okidoki Izakaya, in Tustin for an early lunch.  I hadn't seen his for his birthday earlier, this week, so today was a catchup.  Zack aka  GH#3 took a photo of his card.

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Anytimw with family is so precious and text, e mails count too.

 

 

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This “Pop Art Nun” is the Surprise Muse of  Spring 2021 Season

My favorite artist Corita Kent is somewhat lesser-known. A progressive nun in 1960s Los Angeles, she was creating bold silkscreens alongside the likes of Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns (though you can surmise why she never became as famous). Chloé’s Natacha Ramsay-Levi was taken with Kent’s politically-charged art of that era; in the midst of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam War, the “Pop Art nun,” as she came to be known, used advertising slogans and Bible verses to transmit messages about racism, inequality, and injustice in America. Through an official collaboration with Kent’s estate, Ramsay-Levi used a few of those messages in her spring 2021 collection: A slinky white dress featured her 1965 “Hope” artwork at the hip, while a color-blocked orchid sweater was collaged with “I Can Handle It” and “Give the Gang Our Best,” both circa 1966. When those items are available later this year, a percentage of the proceeds will benefit the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles.

 

 

Her messages about hope, community, and human rights are newly relevant today, and we can only imagine what kind of work she would create in 2020, faced with a pandemic, a climate crisis, social uprising, and a contentious election. For those of us feeling particularly anxious about it , her 1977 piece “Out of the Darkness” might strike a chord: 

 

Against bright slashes of cobalt and violet, Kent’s scribbled handwriting reads: “out of the darkness/of one moment/grows the light/of another moment/perhaps in some distant time/if not in the next moment/love the darkness.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                        

         •   A compelling  5-minute  video, croissants, here. 

•   An under 5-minute talkative video, parakeet, here.

               

 

                  

Just because ...

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Smiles for Saturday ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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