Elizabeth, as seen in the current issue of Artful Blogging, is hosting another online party, The Polar Festival. To join in, I am pic spamming with whites – some older art I dug up just for the festivities.
She’ll have the participating links up Saturday, Feb. 9, (when I’ll be off celebrating Heartagram Day!) Stop by eb’s place, I’m sure it will be a day of lovely visuals.
EDIT: I was asked to show the whole photo of "Purest Love" so I got out some old magazines and found it, as well as two more from another issue. Then I dug even deeper into the archive and found a page a made for Lynne’s True Colors White journal in 2001. Was it that long ago? Sheesh.
I think the stories the artists wrote about their pages in True Colors made it really special. This spread wasn’t in the book, so here’s what I wrote about it:
Since working in these journals took on the pattern of adding music as a foundation I began researching for White songs before Lynne’s journal even arrived. closed cd. I hadn’t settled on a song but had chosen several tunes with White in the title. (I knew Lynne had a jukebox so thought I would be clever and create a white and silver retro faux Wurlitzer with an enclosed cd. I had everything from Barry White to White Wedding ready to burn. Then when the White book got here with it’s lovely cover of old whites, and gorgeous pages filled with lace, feathers and pearls, the perfect song whispered to me: Edelweiss, with it’s lyric “small and white, clean and bright”. It never would have occurred to me to use that song before seeing Lynne’s book. Edelweiss and the film it came from, The Sound of Music, became my theme for White. From an enclosed envelope that came with Lynne’s book I scanned pictures of her backyard view in winter and manipulated them in photoshop, turning them sepia, for “the hills are alive, with the sound of music”. I found an old book cover with a title that fit my theme, and created a booklet filled with the song lyrics, information about Edelweiss flowers, and a packet of seeds (a real find, thanks to Ebay, as they are an endangered flower). I didn’t actually use white in Lynne’s book but implied it with light shades of pretty colors, with a winterscape, and with my theme. White’s music addition is a mini cd with several versions of Edelweiss from the movie soundtrack as well as a rendition sung by Harry Connick Jr.
Ok, that’s all the White I’m going to dig up for now. If you’re visiting here from EB’s party, thanks for stopping by!
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