Box Art
Cabinets of Curiosities, Kunstkammer
Framed or "vitrined", objects are assembled, recombined and juxtaposed to convey a memory, feeling or idea. The found or "trouved" objects , frequently rejected, become repositories verging on a reliquary, now safe , protected and stored.
A three dimensional collage and an extension of the traditional cabinet of curiosities or Kunstkammer. The founding father of box art was the American artist Joseph Cornell [1903-1972], other practitioners include Sir Peter Blake, Marcel Duchamp and his famous "Boite en Valise", Mark Dion with his museum style presentation of archeological objects.
The example above is more a light hearted homage to Lucio Fontana and his Concetto spaziale series. See also references to Magritte below.
A Terre-neuvier leaves the harbour at Fecamp, passed the chalk falais. Harbour scene made from drift wood and "mermaids purse" welk egg cases.
Kalkan, Turkey
Skogsra, in Swedish mythology a beautiful faery who lures men into the woods, performed here by Freyja, drawn by Arthur Rackham. The granite rocks, reindeer moss and birch log were all sourced from the location of the photograph in Sweden.
Detail of a traditional Swedish farm house, with a frog waiting for his princess.
Birchbark covered hut with water nymph on the windowsill, the princess perhaps.
Hommage to Anselm Keiffer
A pair of ruined arches
Collage of the Cliffs at Etretat in Normandy, France.
View from a hotel winow of the chalk arch and stack at Etretat in Normany, France
The Sea Arch at Etretat by Gustave Courbet in 1869. One of five views painted by Courbet. [ The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham] See also paintings of Etretat by Monet and other Impressionists.
Art is work, selling it is art
Another version of "Art is work, selling it is art".
A somewhat surreal box with "hommage" to Rene Magritte.
Flints in balance or the unattainable, after Calder
Street Art seen in the Marais district of Paris, The Romantic City.
Reference to a play by the dramatist Bernard Kops, "The Dark Ages" performed on the BBC Third Program on 1 May 1964.. This futuristic play ends with the last two people on earth floating in the ocean in a rubber dinghy when a dolphin pops up and says "Its our turn next". The play also features two lovely words, 'plasticulation" and "globulastic".
Fossilised nummulites, sea polished, from the north coast of Egypt. They are lenticular fossil sea shells from the Eocene Period, 56-33.9 mya. The ancient Egyptians used them as coins, hence their name, Latin for "little coins".
Detail, two figures, why?
Man's efficiency to man, the price of entry is destruction
The animal bones were found on the northern foreshore of the River Thames under Cannon Street railway bridge, steps access at the end of Cousins Lane by the Bankers Pub.
The bones came down the River Walbrook from the old meat market at Smithfield. The river is now underground. The joys of mudlarking.
"Are you pleased to see me", fragments of sea shells from Amering on Sea
Fragments of sea shells and fossils found on the beach of Knokke Le Zoute on the coast of Belgium.
