Showing posts with label works on paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label works on paper. Show all posts

22.12.24

...secret department: secrecy, privacy, mystery 2013....

 https://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2013/06/mail-art-dossier.html

mail collaboration with Jeff Crouch 2013, series of 8.

secret department

the early years

classified

secret1

secret ops


9.12.24

Saudade, six postcards atSlowForward....

 https://slowforward.net/2024/12/08/seis-saudade-cecelia-chapman-jeff-crouch/

Asemic mail collaboration, Saudade, six from the 16 postcard series with Jeff Crouch 



1.11.24

...and three from Rafael González ....

 

October notebook

Night picnic, don´t wash your hair today

Heroes of the Cambrian Empire and their dissolution in the spring broth

20.10.24

...from MauMau Blood Dreams...4 collage postcards...

A surreal fairytale and fable series based on Galician and Western European folktales transmitted orally through millennium. The original, disturbing folktales were re-written as dream-like fairytales with happy endings in the 17th century. Themes of truth prevailing, generosity rewarded, obstacles overcome, and love and kindness winning over evil appealed to later audiences. Despite this, the dark and violent, neolithic folklore of survival continues to influence culture to today. I decided to write my own tales. Project in process in film, postcard, book.



Film here:

Red Hood https://vimeo.com/1021234822

Moon Is A Dagger https://vimeo.com/980599103






MMI. “…when birds flew from the heavens to bring us stories..." 



MII. “…though this did not kill him." 



MMIV. “Like a fairytale, the further on, the more sinister.”



MMV. “Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal."  

11.4.24

4 anti-war postcards

 


Nao Mais 1 2024 inkjet postcard


Nao Mais 2 2024 inkjet postcard


Nao Mais 3 2024 inkjet postcard


Kiss Me Quick 1981 offset postcard

15.10.23

Line Paintings 3 new....

https://ceceliachapman.com/line-painting

 









Line Painting 2023. Watercolor, gouache, graphite. Series of 25. 10.13-23 30 x 40 cm., 11.8 x 15.7 inches.



7.9.23

…adding 6 new Line Painting…

 


Line Painting. 2023. Acrylic, watercolor pencil. Series of 22. 29.5 x 29.5 cm., 11.6 x 11.6 inches



11.4.23

...Outlaw Seals...and not really mail collaboration but asemic drawing, writing, works on paper, new...


Outlaw Seals, glyphs and talismans 2023. Series of 10. 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 21.6 x 29.7 cm. Watercolor, collage, gouache, personal stamps, ink, graphite. Asemic writing is an experiment breaking laws of grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraph, sentence structure. 






OUTLAW SEALS


An outlaw who practiced ritual writing was resting under a tree by the springs and eating her lunch when demons gathered to party. She watched the demons do their demonic, perverted things and throw garbage in the waters. Their wicked energy was disturbing everyone. So she walked over with a burning stick, and writing in smoke in the air, stunned the demons. The outlaw gathered them all and put them in a jar sealed with her seals where they were helpless until the jar was opened. 


After thousands of years the place of the jar was known as The Hall of the Jar. It was a place of star watching and a pure springs with a code of conduct: 

1. Value all life 

2. Pollution of streams and rivers is prohibited

3. Do not contend


A Guardian of the Hall welcomed a guest from a foreign land who asked about the jar. The visitor laughed when he heard the jar was full of demons. In the dark of the moon the guest sneaked into the Hall and opened the jar. The demons flew out. They laughed at the visitor and threw him into the sea. But the sea felt polluted by him and waves threw him out. 


The escaped demons had watched the outlaw’s good deeds and remembered them for thousands of years. They decided to follow her example and do good. After a while the locals got used to the ragged demons in their country wandering around trying to help people, doing good, and studying how to write. The people made the demons heroes of a thousand skills and disguises. That is another story.