Naming Ceremony's Art Gallery Magazine: Storybook Fragments

Naming Ceremony’s Art Gallery Magazine

FRAGMENTS

Naming Ceremony’s Art Gallery Magazine

Storybook Fragments

Naming Ceremony’s Art Gallery Magazine: Storybook Fragments Edited/Curated by Maribel N. Navarro Cover Design by Adam Jennings Cover Artwork by Katie St. Clair Artwork Copyright to Katie St. Clair

Volume 1, Issue #4. January 2013. ©

2013 Naming Ceremony Gallery. All Rights Reserved.

ISBN 978 - 1 - 300 - 62962 - 7

Curator’s Note Storybook Fragments As part of our effort to include all viewers and artists in our magazine, Naming Ceremony Gallery has actively decided to curate art that children can appreciate as well. We accepted art that invites a young child’s imagination to expand the narrative beyond what they see in the picture, to get them thinking about what the meanings are “between the lines” and allow them to grow from the experience.

Children are a very important part of society and we hope this issue contributes to expanding art awareness and inviting young individuals to explore its merits and uses.

We hope you enjoy it and that it brings out the child in you.

-Maribel N. Navarro Founder/Curator Naming Ceremony Gallery

Contents Annie Standard Pg 5 Brenda Louise Allen Pg 12 Cindy Loretta Dial Pg 19 Crystal De La Torre Pg 22 Daniel Weinell Pg 26 Doris H. Rowe Pg 31 Flora Golden Pg 34 Heather Calfee Pg 36 John S. Shlichta Pg 38 FEATURE: “Wishes, Lies, and Dreams” Pg 45 FEATURE: Once Upon A Time... Pg 59 Jordan Quintero Pg 68 Katie St. Clair Pg 73 Marine Bell Morris Pg 86 Maryann Buchanan Pg 89 Richard Lapham Pg 95 Sabine Blodorn Pg 100

Annie Standard www.anniestandard.tumblr.com

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An aboriginal man tells the stories passed down for many generations, gathered from nature. He taps into the spirit world as he tells the stories, opening his mind and mesmerizing his audience.

Earthern Tales by Annie Standard Acrylic and Ink 12 x 9 incg $95

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A mountain spirit is visited by a sky sprite. These creatures are large and powerful, but unseen by humans. They consult the affairs of the forest. They act as invisible forces which perpetuate the natural order of earth.

Where Earth Meets Sky by Annie Standard Coffee and Ink 12 x 9 inch $95

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A girl has plant life growing from her head. Whole worlds grow from her imagination.

Her dreams branch out into trees and grow delicious fruits!

Tree Brained by Annie Standard Acrylic and Ink 12 x 9 inch $95

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Brenda Louise Allen www.cargocollective.com/ballen_digitalpaint

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Visiting the Octopus Queen, takes place in an environment in which one of the characters doesn’t usually reside. It’s the meeting of ambassadors from separate worlds.This piece leads children to imagine themselves in environments that they may not normally inhabit.

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Visiting the Octopus Queen by Brenda Louise Allen Photoshop 22 x 11 inch $300

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Animals About Town by Brenda Louise Allen Photoshop 22 x 11 inch $300

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Children would like nothing more than to have their animal friends suddenly speak or participate in some of their favorite activities. In Animals About Town, we see that the results may be a little different than expected. Fun and mayhem ensue.

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Cindy Loretta Dial www.etsy.com/shop/CHUGZ

I am Cindy Dial, a folk artist, untrained.

I have always been artistic, creating things that I needed in my life, relying on my natural instincts. I have enjoyed using my skills in my career as custom home builder to develop conceptual drawings for my homeowners.

I began working with collage by accident. I started cutting soda cans into earring charms. I thought I could do more with the material and so I cut my first feather. As the feathers piled, I needed a canvas, I grabbed a soda box. I loved what happened to the carton as I distressed it. I found I could use sections to suggest a landscape or other scenery through the color or remaining graphics. That led me to collage. I have never attempted a photomontage, collage, or assemblage before last year.

I love collage: snippets of paper, magazines, photographs, acrylics, ink, stains, scratches, foils‌. found objects. Many of my collages are made from dozens of clippings. Every leaf, stone, tree, finger, waves of a dress‌ all individually cut. Each brought together for a collective image with acrylic paint, ink, stains and sketching.

My husband makes all of my frames of reclaimed materials and I custom finish them.

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I have just begun to explore the possibilities of texture, ink transfers, foils, and found objects. What fun! I look at every object now to decide how I could use it in my next piece. “Remembering� is of a young girl pondering how wonderful it would be to really be a butterfly. She is walking though an enchanted garden where most anything could come true. I used a Minute Maid Pink Lemonade carton for my canvas in this mixed media collage.

Remembering by Cindy Dial Mixes Media Collage 6 x 9 inch $154

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Crystal De La Torre www.crystaldelatorre.com

My paintings and collages are colorful narratives that explore childhood. The soft colors and curious faces of children I paint create a window into a world of ominous situations and peculiar settings. I collect photographs and images in magazines to create stories that reflect play, innocence, and possible danger. In addition, the strong feminine energy that influenced my childhood resurfaces in my work and becomes part of the characters and backgrounds. My collages imply memory while the paint steps in as the element of fantasy. Fantasy is the escape to what we yearned for in our childhoods, but could never physically grasp. Frustration and desire become visible in the characters of my mischievous and curious little girls. Through them, I am exposing my desires and experiencing my childhood fantasy.

Control is an important element in my work; self control and lack of control between the protagonist and antagonist. The characters within the narrative exist in scenes that are uncomfortable, revealing tension and vulnerability. Each piece I create in an extension from my past, mischievous and fantasy-like, and a preview of my future.

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A Mothers Love by Crystal De La Torre Oil on Wood Panel $800

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Punished by Crystal De La Torre Oil on Canvas $300

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Some For All by Crystal De La Torre Oil on Canvas $1, 000

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Daniel Weinell www.reverseapathy.blogspot.co.uk

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The Kingdom and the Moors Leah was a princess. But she was not in distress. She was the hero of her story. Wearing a tiara and looking down at her kingdom she made a decision. She was capable of anything. The swing set was a towering castle and the backyard was the land she ruled over. The other children all played their parts. Mackenzie was a royal guard patrolling the dead grass in front of the swings. And over yonder in the moors was Dillon, the villainous wizard. He was a vile and oppressive boy. Leah was on her back staring up through the leaves of the great tree. The wind rustled through the leaves revealing bursts of sunlight and, if she was lucky, a hint of a cloud.

Princess Leah grew weary of her role and her kingdom. She wanted to go out and adventure like the brave knights who fought for her. She sat up and swung her legs over the bars of the swing set and looked down at her royal guard. Perhaps weary of her post as well, Mackenzie had taken to swinging.

“Guard, did I give you leave to swing?” demanded her highness.

“No, my lady but from the apex of my swing I can see a great deal more of the kingdom than I could on the ground.”

“Very well. I desire to mingle with the commoners. Would you kindly escort me into the moors?

“But my lady, the villainous wizard dwells across the moors.”

“I know. And I would have words with him.”

“Very well my lady.”

The royal guard Mackenzie took a few looks across the fields and then with careful precision let loose her body from the swing and landed in a tumble on the lawn.

Princess Leah climbed down the wooden ladder with a regal air about her.The ancient wood was splintered under her soft hands.

“Guard! Where is my royal scepter?”

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“Right here, my lady.”

Mackenzie was at her side scepter in hand. Together the Princess and her trusted guard galloped off across the moors. The lands surrounding the castle were well groomed. The journey was long and arduous, but Leah was a tough spirit and craved the adventure. Slowly the bright sun became hidden as they crossed under an awning into the wizard’s lair. The great wizard sat on the ground playing with a toy car. Surely he was concocting some evil plot to overthrow her kingdom. He looked up at them and then ignored them and continued in his machinations.

“Attention you vile and odious wizard,” the Princess decreed.

Dillon continued to ignore her Highness. Leah was displeased and Mackenzie could see it in her scowl.

“Her Royal Highness has addressed you boy wizard.You would be wise to acknowledge her presence.”

“Go away,” Dillon groaned.

“Dillon you’re supposed to be an evil wizard,” Mackenzie whispered through her teeth.

“I’m not playing that anymore, go away.”

The Princess was not surprised that the wizard was playing coy. He was well known for his trickery. Leah was unafraid.

“Wizard I have a proposition for you. You see, I grow weary of my rank and I believe you are the only one who can assist me.”

Mackenzie looked taken aback. Why would her Royal Highness utter such blasphemies?

Dillon looked up from his task with an interested eye.

“Go on...”

“I want to leave my kingdom behind for a new life and you’re just the man to help.

Allow my Royal Guard and I to switch castes, she may take on the role of Princess so

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that I may live the life of a commoner. In exchange, I grant you her hand in marriage and with that my kingdom shall be yours as well.”

“Leah...” Mackenzie complained.

Leah closed her eye and turned away.

“But he’s gross.”

Leah turned and placed her hand on Mackenzie’s shoulders.

“I know he may seem that way. But I knew this wizard long before he turned into such a vile monster. Our kindness will turn his heart and together the two of you can usher in a hundred years of peace for our great kingdom.”

“Very well, my lady, if that is your wish.”

“It is. What say you wizard?”

Dillon looked past the girls toward the swing set and grinned.

“And I can play on the swings?”

“Of course. This land will be yours to do with as you, and Mackenzie, see fit.”

“Sure then,” said Dillon, as he jumped up and ran across the backyard.

Mackenzie ran off after him.

“I call the good swing,” Dillon yelled.

“Na-uh, I’m the Princess, I get the good swing!” Mackenzie retorted.

Leah watched as the two shoved each other in the distance, each vying for a spot on the swing set, even though there were two perfectly good swings. Leah was a little remorseful at giving up her throne but mostly excited at the freedom it granted her.

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ground. The world was hers to explore now and she would conquer whatever villain stood between her and victory.

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Doris H. Rowe www.eaglenosefablesbook.weebly.com

My mission is to demonstrate to America’s young people that an eagle is a fine trumpet to express ideas concerning our democracy – its strengths and weaknesses.

The eagle as avatar will contribute to communicating ideals of freedom, liberty, and justice within sane, diverse, and loving family units. Freeing the eagle from its usual staid position as emboldened on the Great Seal of the United States representing the government and all the people - these eagles represent single individuals.

The stories are gender free; they show individual traits that in other fables appear as stereotypes, and the pictures carefully illustrate the words - and vice versa. These eagles can be naughty, smart, overconfident, wise, nasty, caring, wrong, knowing, greedy, reckless, guilty, and dead.

The fables offer gentle humor in interesting situations that teach common sense lessons.

Analysis of the pictures along with the story offers the student the opportunity to learn new words, ponder new ideas, and to see new relationships.

A Brief Description of the Idea for Eagle Fables Š Doris H. Rowe 2004

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Decoration Day by Doris H. Rowe Digiral Drawing 11 x 8 inch $100

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Flora Golden www.floragoldenart.com

Sheep in Knots by Flora Golden [Top Right] Mixed Media on Cardboard on Wood Panel 10 x 14 x 1 inch $375

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Sheep en Pointe by Flora Golden [Bottom Right] Mixed Media on Cardboard on Wood Panel 10 x 14 x 1 inch $375

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Heather Calfee I create my works of art with something to say, but tell it in a murmur. The irony of this work, coupled with the whimsy of the subject matter creates the lighthearted mood I strive to bring to the corner of the art world that I inhabit. Art doesn’t always have to be dark and moody; sometimes it can simply make you smile.

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Unnecessary Precautions by Heather Calfee

34 x 36 inch $3, 500

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John S. Shlichta www.betweenawishandathing.com

John Shlichta is a transplant to Portland, via Seattle, and New York City. He grew up in the Los Angeles harbor town of San Pedro, California, where the influence of his large and wacked family, allowed him to cultivate a love of all things abstract, overlooked, abandoned and forgotten. His recent work gives a small glimpse into his somewhat recent obsession with SCHERENSCHNITTE, or paper cutting, which began a handful of years ago with several productions of shadow puppet plays for family and friends.

He looks to nature in its infinite structures, systems, and processes to find metaphores to describe the many facets of the human condition....

Apparition by John S. Shlichta Paper Cutout 14 x 20 inch NOT FOR SALE

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Flotsam by John S. Shlichta [Above] Paper Cutout 30 x 22 inch $900

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Hello Yesterday, Goodbye Tomorrow

by John S. Shlichta [Left] Paper Cutout 12 x 23 inch NOT FOR SALE

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Oracle by John S. Shlichta Paper Cutout 15 x 18 inch $500

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The Flood Within by John S. Shlichta Paper Cutout 19 x 43 inch $900

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The Rise and the Fall of the Birdking

by John S. Shlichta Paper Cutout 13 x 18 inch NOT FOR SALE

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Wishes, Lies, And Dreams www.chutiwongpeti.info

A Review of Sarawut Chutiwongpeti’s Installation Series.

Article by Maribel N. Navarro; Pictures Courtesy of Sarawut Chutiwongpeti.

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti’s installation series, Wishes, Lies and Dreams is a treat for the subconscious. As the title implies, the installation series takes us into a quiet menagerie of metaphorical and natural imagery that makes you feel as though you’ve fallen into a waking dream.

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Spanning between the years 2001 to its most recent installation in 2012, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams is composed of pieces of imagery that is both normal and foreign to the individual. In his 2005 installation subtitled Heartsick on the Open Sea With Stars, Sarawut has created a fragmented dimension where all components make sense only in our minds, rather than as they physically stand. There is a sword that for many of us is a familiar component of being out at sea. A different view of the installation presents us with a rocking horse on a boat that only makes sense the same way it would in a dream. How is a rocking horse in any way related to the sea and being on the sea?

It only makes sense within the bigger context of Wishes, Lies, and Dreams. The great wings made of large feathers are a quiet suggestion of the birds at sea. Not only do they fit in the realm of the subconscious, but they create fill the room like clouds and are the predominant feature of the installation. The wondrous thing about this installation is that each component, though incomplete, fits in our thoughts perfectly together allowing us to fill in what we need to complete the scene.

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Sarawut’s series has a strong foundation in nature, its interaction with us, reality, and its disruption of that same reality. In a 2008 installation of Wishes Lies and Dreams, small groups of rabbits mingle on the stones of the river walking path in the Changdong Area in Seoul Korea. Gathered in that manner, they disrupt the natural vista of their surroundings. We feel as though we’ve fallen into our own rabbit hole and, in a variation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland, we’ve come upon not just one, but many large white rabbits going about their business, completely ignoring us.

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In He message, the skull of a bull hangs over a white platform atop which is an assortment of bones, wood, flowers and feathers. Back-lit and flanked by a pair of wings, the significance of He Message seems to be clearly of death, but it’s more than that. There is a subtle hint of isolation, desolation and loneliness. Dry bones, twigs and flowers all bring to mind an impending death of “spirit” –“Spirit” in the sense of what gives anything in nature its gusto to live rather than a physical death. It’s a reminder that we’ll end up as dry as the paraphernalia at the foot of the steer skull both mentally and physically. Notably, Sarawut has managed to make He Message read more like an omen conjured by our subconscious in a dream, rather than a symbol or representation of death.

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For his 2011 installation subtitled Tomorrow Is Another Day I had to stop and consider all the components beyond their physical arrangement. The white environment, the bones, and the industrial elements seem to fit together aesthetically, but in the background of the conscious realm, there is a suggestion of some other layer of meaning. How does all this make sense in addition to their white color and their dreamy quality? It’s quiet.

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The white color and the lit Buddha heads quiet your thoughts and force you to contemplate, to take into account the individual elements and their cohesive meaning.

However, one can ask, what does one contemplate? Bones suggest death. The Buddha suggests acceptance, meditation, and spiritually traveling a middle path. The industrial elements, poignantly piercing the environment from the ceiling suggest the inevitability of urbanization interjecting - if not taking over - nature. Additionally, the entire setting might suggest both the delay and even prevention of death –as if science, as part of the urban/unnatural world will soon interfere with what we thought was inevitable; as if we will one day be able to dictate how and when we will die or die at all.

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Between Mind and Heart, Sarawut’s 2012 and latest installation is yet more cryptic and difficult to put its meaning into words than Tomorrow Is Another Day. It induces the confusion caused by the battle between what one desires (heart) and what one knows (Mind). It is a rigid battlefield of metallic constructions, jutting upwards with angles and curves that could make you bleed should you get too close. A circular window looms over the entire installation like a white sun as if suggesting the clarity of reason that should conquer the confusion caused by the heart’s desire. Light floods in as a reminder that reason will always tell us what we must do, but that it can be difficult to realize it over the din of the rigid and raw metal shapes battling bellow.

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All in all, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams is a labor that exemplifies patience and intuition.

It effectively communicates the way the subconscious works without our conscious being aware - meaning, it feeds off of the way we understand some things without having had to think them through. Sarawut understands how to create the feeling of reality giving way to the inside of the mind - thoughts and intuitions visibly and actively take over so gently we don’t have the heart to protest. His imagery envelopes us and there is always some meaning we can come away with - it might not be the same one, but perhaps it is a part of the whole message we are supposed to receive.

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Once Upon A Time... www.stanwoodhouse.com

I studied film in college back in the late 60’s early 70’s. But I was interested in experimental film which led me to think about syntax and context in photography - in other words, the language of photography. In 1987 I got spun out of Wall Street, where I had been a one percent and landed up hawking a poster I had made on the street in Jerusalem. That was really the beginning of my career as a working artist. I met my wife at that time. She was a native of Seattle and spent 17 years teaching and practicing art in Israel. It was her deep roots in this area that brought us here, to a studio gallery that we share in Stanwood, WA (www. stanwoodhouse.com). About half of my work is collaborative where we combine my photography with her painting and we have done larger works for hospitals, courthouses, libraries, and colleges around the country.

There are many ways in which I use photography in mixed media.

The series “Storyboards” combines photographs with different genres of writing including: narrative, diary, history, poetry,

scientific, sociological, political, and economic. There are many types of artists. There are those who find a formula and keep churning it out for the rest of their lives - some good artists too.

And then there are artists who are protean, trying new things.

For me, originality and versatility are very important. Currently I have picked up the paintbrush and even get my hands dirty with clay. The collaboration with my wife has also evolved.

Several months ago, after consulting a website that announces calls for art, I applied for a commission to supply a treatment for the corridors of a new apartment building in Seattle. I was struck by the openness of the call, which even could accept installation art.Very hip. So I pulled “Storyboards� out of my mental closet and applied. I will blow up about ten of these to as large as seven feet long by one foot high. As with most commissions, there will be some give and take on the selection and some may be image only.

Most of my work is very personal, sometimes even confessional, so we’ll see. As you can see, there is some flexibility in the form, such as showing the story cells in sequential pages instead of next to each other mounted on a board. I visit the building, under construction, for the first time in a few days.

by Bezalel Levy

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Jordan Quintero www.jordanquintero.com

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Drawings Drawings by Jordan Quintero Mixed Media on Panel 12 x 12 x 0.75 inch $425

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Finally mamma and baby polar bear found another mammal. It was woman, and she was sitting all alone at an easel. “What are you doing, woman?” said baby polar bear.

“I’m documenting the history of the world” said woman, who was using the blood on the ground to paint. “Where is your companion human?” said mamma polar bear, concerned. Woman did not know where her companion was, so together, the three of them set out to search.

Written by Maya Dobjensky.

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Moving Right Along by Jordan Quintero Mixed Media on Panel 12 x 12 x 0.75 inch $425

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Mamma and baby polar bear made it past the ice fields and found the place where the machines used to live. Baby polar bear stopped to talk to a nearby tree. “What are you doing, tree?” said baby polar bear. “I’m taking back my kingdom” said the tree.

And indeed, he and his shoots were covering the steel and glass, and from the broken concrete sprouted little green things, soft and new.

Written by Maya Dobjensky.

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Katie St. Clair www.katiestclair.com

The fairytale is vehicle for twisted symbolism and moral perception. Answers for life’s lessons can be found in the questions asked in fairy tales as well as an entrance into the wonder of exploring other worlds through creativity. In this series, I wanted to create a land where children could learn about themselves through the wisdom of animal guides. Using the power of imagination I developed a character: a little girl who creates her own access to a dreamland through learning to knit. She knits a blanket to cover the snow in order to meet a curious fox friend. She makes a basket that can be pulled by the wild birds. The little girl finds out she can swim deep underwater by making a fish suit out of yarn. Returning to the surface, she makes friends with some cold goats and decides to make them scarves.

Through these images, I wanted to teach children and adults alike - the necessity for creative problem solving and joy of playing with our imaginations. My hope is these images bring a little wonder back to how we see our world.

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A Knitted Labyrinth, A Place to Hide

by Katie St. Clair Acrylic and Photo Collage 15 x 24 inch $600

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Curious Coat of Red, Teach Me Your Cunning

by Katie St. Clair Acrylic and Photo Collage 15 x 24 inch $600

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He Stretched Low His Neck and Took To the Sky

by Katie St. Clair Acrylic and Photo Collage 15 x 24 inch $600

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Safety in Her Golden Locks

by Katie St. Clair Acrylic and Photo Collage 15 x 24 inch $600

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Scales to Keep Me Warm Like Wool

by Katie St. Clair Acrylic and Photo Collage 15 x 24 inch $600

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That Wears But is Never Warn

by Katie St. Clair Acrylic and Photo Collage 15 x 24 inch $600

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Marina Bell Norris Marina Bell Norris was raised in a quiet, sleepy town where she liked to draw pictures and make up stories about them. Harold and Hannah are part of a series that reflects on the utter dislike of the taste in clothing parents have for their children and what a real pain it was to humor them. Reflecting on it now, the discomfort is portrayed as a laconic humor coming from the artist who projects it onto the child in the illustration.

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Harold Doesn’t Like it When His Mother Picks His Bowties

by Marina Bell Norris Graphite on Paper Not For Sale

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Hanna Is Wearing the Glasses Her Grandma Chose

by Marina Bell Norris Graphite on Paper Not For Sale

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Maryann Buchanan www.maryannkathrynphotography.com

In the series Going in Reverse I have digitally placed whimsical elements into my images to call into question the once-assumed reality of photographs. Reverting to a “primitive” use of Photoshop and compositing, paradoxically reveals things about our present reality and the ways in which childlike imagination changes as technology does; the more exact the method of remediation, the narrower the field of fantasy becomes.

In this work I’ve photographed traditional picturesque scenes and inserted toys and other vehicles for imagination to try to regain at least in part, a kind of youthful playfulness.

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Going in Reverse by Maryann Buchanan Photography 34 x 26 inch $600

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Lion by Maryann Buchanan Photography 26 x 34 inch $600

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Mona Lisa by Maryann Buchanan Photography 26 x 34 $600

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Venus by Maryann Buchanan Photography 34 x 26 inch $600

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We Care by Maryann Buchanan Photography 26 x 34 $600

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Richard Lapham www.RichardLapham.com

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Throughout the story, the mother whale asks people and animals if they have seen a flying whale. The pigeons in Washington Square Park are one of the groups the whale talks to. By following the clues New Yorkers and New York animals (pigeons, squirrels, etc) give her, the mother visits several landmarks in New York City and eventually finds her calf.

Pigeons in Flight by Richard Lapham Photography 11 x 14 inch $1, 200

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These images make up the illustrations for an upcoming children’s book. The premise of this book is the somewhat surreal story of a flying whale playing ‘hide and seek’ with her calf over New York City. As the title suggests, this image illustrates the moment the mother whale breaches out of the water and begins looking for her calf. These images are a photograph of an oil painted on a glass window. The window is suspended in air so that the painting interacts with the background, and creates the illusion of a flying whale.

Whale Breaching by Richard Lapham Photography 11 x 14 inch $1, 200

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This image illustrates the calf ‘swimming’ to new locations to hide from the mother whale.

Whale on Bedford St. by Richard Lapham Photography 11 x 14 $1, 200

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This image illustrates the calf ‘swimming’ to new locations to hide from the mother whale.

Whale on Bleecker St. by Richard Lapham Photography 11 x 14 $1, 200

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Sabine Blodorn www.bluecanvas.com/sabineblodorn

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Somewhere Else III - From the Series That Went Wrong

by Sabine Blodorn Mixed Medium 100 x 100 x 4 cm NOT FOR SALE

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Deep down in the Universe, far away from mother Earth, a child was born on Planet Plong, where there live Beings called the Dong.

As you can see, they are not so different from you and me. And like here on planet Earth, their population is quite diverse.

Despite the obvious population mix, the Dongs opted for “No Politics”.

Luckily a Dong named Dugby had a fantasy to stop the misery: “To escape this tyranny lets travel to another colony”.

Along they went to Orion, which lies in the Oracles Emporium. Here they learned their fate of state, that it is never too late to debate what went wrong on planet Plong.

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Naming Ceremony is looking for art, literature and video submissions! Here’s our latest call for entries:

Here’s To You Tribute Series: Sci-Fi Countless of foundational worlds have been created by amazing authors and film-makers. Feel free to break the mold with your own creations or reference/ interpret the classics from the obscure to mainstream, icons, idols, animation, writer/creator portraits, creatures, heroes and villains. Fan art, fan fiction, and homage pieces is what it’s all about.

Reference/Interpretation pieces must include: A link to information about the film, graphic novel, creative person, or book being referenced.

If a film, a link to a trailer, or snippet must be referenced.

If a book/graphic novel, link to detailed informartion about the book, along with Edition number and Page reference.

DEADLINE APRIL 16th What happens if your work is accepted?

Your piece will be represented permanently in our Online gallery (with a chance to sell it) and will appear in our periodic Magazine issue You will be eligible for the publication of an art book that will be available worldwide online for ordering.

* Please read our submission guidelines before submitting. Improper submissions will not be considered. *Not all artists will be accepted for the online gallery and magazine. *Not all of those accepted artists will be in the published, physical art book.

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