17.1.20

3WatchFiends videos @Arteidolia....

3 videos about ethics, surveillance and global warming survival @Arteidolia...Dragonfly Winter, Hey Marty and Renounce the Trolley Problem.



Club Paradise at Interalia Magazine

Club Paradise: don’t be a tourist…vacation culture, capitalism, consciousness 2017-2019 examines vacation culture photographed and filmed on Cape Cod. https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/cecelia-chapman/

Club Paradise is a huge project that took a year emailing everything, video, mail art, polaroid, essay, writing back and forth with Jeff Crouch and which is up at Interalia Magazine now. I included the mail art here but Interalia focussed on the video and photographs.... but it was my biggest mail art project and working with Jeff, Rafael Gonzalez, Blaine Reininger and several performers.












6.12.19

with rafael gonzalez....



Its been a while since I could post anything, first my computer died then I changed jobs... but I have a lot of new collaborative art and shows going up in January...

5.12.19

45 new drawings coming soon...


Here Black Thunder above and RiverWolf below from Nippe, nippe...
45 drawings, collage with essay soon....


record from the skull at Arteidolia 1/2020

Caravan of the Wind from Record of the Skull: night order of things 2019.
With Jeff Crouch. Six drawings, video, essay at Arteidolia in January.

club paradise at Interalia in 01/2020


Club Paradise 2017-2019 will be at Interalia magazine in January....it is the largest mail collaboration and mail art project including video, print, essay and photography I have worked on...and the longest. This postcard from Posted, a series with Rafael Gonzalez. 

18.9.19

Dear Jeff,

...finally got a scanner...


Disaster as my computer died and took my iPad with it and my email! As apple could not -would not identify me so I am offline for a while....

6.9.19

Trouble in Club Paradise at UnlikelyStories



Trouble in Club Paradise...death, drugs, drunkeness, disaster… polaroids reimagine notorious vacations in literature, news and film from Club Paradise at  https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/trouble-in-club-paradise 







1.9.19

Confidential Agent...new video gif from Rafael Gonzalez...

...putting this into the Watchfiends series https://ceceliachapman.com/watchfiends ...the loss of privacy in communication is one of the current dilemmas we face. But in graffiti and mail art we subvert ways we engage in the world.  

28.8.19

Dragonfly Winter and Hey Marty mail collaborations with Jeff Crouch

...Dragonfly Winter about global warming and Hey Marty concerning surveillance... two new videos at a new page for this series... https://ceceliachapman.com/watchfiends...videos that focus on current human dilemmas... mail collaboration with Jeff Crouch sounds.

...above screengrab from 'Hey Marty. Here, a 'spills' robot at local chain market that relates to decoy images and icons that hide their true identity...a subject that has long interested me. 

21.7.19

Semiotic-Pareidoliapophenia drawings

Semiotic-Pareidoliapophenia 2019. Pareidolia refers to the human tendency to perceive random things occurring in nature as significant, usually some meaning of human origin. Apophenia is the tendency to find relationships between things or events that have no connection to each other. Semiotic-Pareidoliapophenia explores metaphor and magic in abstract-asemic writing. The experience of reading meaningful signs and symbols in rock lines, paint splatters, leaf mold, skid marks, scars, cracks. Finding connection and pattern in random data. Lanaquarelle paper, watercolor 10 x 14 in., 26 x 36 cm. gouache, personal rubber stamps, graphite, ink.