He would not be assimilated…no matter what the Queen said.
SOLD 🙂 at the Fall Studio Tour
The ephemera: Original Ledger Page from 1916; images from 1902 catalogue; photograph of a crow.
The found objects: old stop watch movement; antique royal typewriter bits; vintage wooden chess pawn; antique key; vintage drawer pull.
Size: 7 inches by 7 inches
Ils partent Ă la recherche d’une meilleure vie.
Le pas lourd, ils s’en vont, le regard fixĂ© vers le futur.
Size: 12 by 20 inches on wooden block
Un Cadeau pour Louise.
SOLD to Mona
Travelling onwards, leaving the past behind them. No more bills, no more commitments, no more hoarding, no more secrets…Nevermore. The ephemera: old love letter from 1800s, old dictionary page (hoarder), old mechanical manual page; reproductions of old sheet music cover, old French pharmacy label, ancienne facture, old sheet music and autograph page from my grandmother to my mother; reproductions of natural history illustrations, vintage train clock and old map of London; various decorative papers; a variety of vintage numbers both original and reproductions.
12 inches by 24 inches by 2 inches wooden cradle.
All is not well with the appareil respiratoire.
It is clogged, the pressure is building, something is going to blow.
Just breathe. Â Slowly. Â In and out, in and out .
You will be fine….or not.
The ephemera: photo of old smoke stacks, page from a cahier scolaire from 1889, natural history photos of crows and ravens, a fragment from an old receipt, Â reproduction of a vintage gage. Encaustic Wax as a top coat.
Size 7 inches by 7 inches on wooden block
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This end up! Fragile! Caution! Do not shake!
SOLD (at Bound to be Different)
The ephemera: old letter, vintage house number, water tower, old postal label, natural history photo of a raven, photo of a tree in winter, encaustic wax.
7″ by 7″ on wooden block.
Encased in a poppy seed head cage. The key tantalizes, just out of reach.
SOLD
NB I found a few beautiful poppy seed heads in the garden. They had eroded into mere skeletons.
“They look like tiny cages” I said to myself…Bazinga!
Alors vous voulez des choux à la crème?
C’est dĂ©cidĂ©! Chez Odette Ă Paris.
Après tout, c’est leur spĂ©cialitĂ©.
Mais vous manquez votre coup.
Les corbeaux sont arrivés avant vous.
Ils vont sûrement vous dérober!
SOLD
7 inches square on wooden block.
A MURDER OF CROWS pt. 2: The Chimney Sweep.
Monsieur le chimney sweep swoops down the flue sweeping it clean, to keep that petrol bill at a reasonable rate.
Vintage French Petrol bill, old gauge, vintage crow, old chimney..
SOLD!
A crow at work. Watching from the Water tower. Checking on the gauges. All systems ready to go. SOLD
This is number one in a series of three mixed media collages called “A MURDER OF CROWS”. Probably one of the greatest collective nouns around A MURDER. It is right up there with A GAGGLE! Flock and School just fade in comparison really.
There goes the neighbourhood…. again. A crowd of crows, watching, a watch-faced moon. A crowd of houses, numbered, oddly. Who would live here?
NB: Having gifted the original “There goes the neighbourdhood” to a dear friend. I missed it and decided to rework it, this time encased in  encaustic wax, and rename it “for the birds”.Â
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (SOLD)
Well the moment those old crows moved in we knew: there goes the neighbourhood!
the ephemera: old papers: menus, book pages, autographs, ledgers, postcards, letters; vintage game pieces, crows
A Crow is not a bird Benoit (Bella)
Mesmerized by the moon, enshrouded in the mist can he read between the lines.
The ephemera: old manuscripts from the 1800’s, a handwritten love letter, a map of manhattan, an old ledger page, an old recipe, a vintage post card, an old seal and a black bird.
