Working on the upcoming exhibit at Espai HC
Opening March 29th 2012
Paper, yarn and Virginia Woolf…
work in progress
Art, Craft & Raffle
December 17th form 11 am - 8 pm
festivalet_nadal_17_dec.pdf
You are invited to come to my studio at C/ San Magín 79 for a little Art & Craft Fair.
There will be a fund raising for Afghan Women.
Come & Enjoy
Antonio, Amable Villarroel, Biel Bover, Maria Antonia Mir, Mariano Mayol,Tatiana Sarasa, Cris Pink, Natalia Waegner, Maud Passe, Happy Lula, Le tresor de Anné, Finca Dos Hermanas, Adriana Valls, Sleeping Company, bconnected, Vintage bconnected, BritVid,
Myriam Sarasa,Earth Yoga….
Thank you to all for participating!
Cubic-box
Cubic-box
The art space Cubic-art opens a special Christmas group exhibit
with the leitmotiv “box”.
Here my music boxes:
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"I am singing in the rain" -
"Imagine" -
"I just called to say I love you"
(Imagine, Singing in the rain, I just called to say I love you..)
Cubic art
C/ Caputxines, 4
07005 Palma
Opening Nov 26
(26.11 - 26.01 )
Artists for Fundació Amazonia
This group exhibition in Xavier Fiol Gallery will last only
for a couple of days as it is a fundraising for Fundació Amazonia.
My piece is a papercut with a little fish and an old Mexican quote:
“Oh Pez, pececillo dorado,
¡Ten mucho cuidado!
Son muchas las redes y trampas que te tiende este mundo.”
“Oh Fish, little golden fish,
Be aware!
There are many nets and traps set for you in this world.”
Textures of Time
“I confess, I do not believe in time.”
Vladimr Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov: “I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness – in a landscape selected at random – is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern – to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.”
Dandelion
Parachutes of dandelion in NY.
” I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hand, paper & blade
Sharpness of blade is very important while doing a papercut. Some people use small scissors but you need to work with very fine paper. For specific works I use high-density polyethylene fiber sheets which make the tip of the blade become blunt a little faster than on regular paper. Therefore I have to change blades quite often.
It is amazing to see how the drawing on the paper transforms little by little into something… almost alive.
My paper dolls
I want to introduce you to Annekatrin, Lisa & Ana the paper dolls I was playing with at my childhood. I discovered these toys in a drawer at my parent’s summer house. While opening the boxes so many memories came back to me… I could remember perfectly all their outfits and looks. The funny thing is that I did not know about the existence of these dolls anymore, but if you look at some of my artwork they must have been somehow present in my subconscious…
Begining a new stage
This is the creative incubator and workshop space where I will work not only on my own but also through collabortive practice to experience together art, crafts, history, design or any cultural expression and to create a space where knowledge and innovation melt through creative process giving shape to something new.
I will keep you informed through this blog about events, workshops and more.
before & after
This is the before & after of my new studio
…or the story of night & day!
before
after
!
Thank you to Boris Pena, the architect with exceptional sense of space and proportions and great sense of humour, thank you to Damian, the constructor and patient executor of our ideas, thank you to Ignacio, my husband, friend and generous contributor and thank you to all the people who made this happen. Gracias de todo corazón!!
Mother’s Day
To my mother, to all the mothers and to all the women in the world who could not be a mother or who died giving bith.
These flowers on the tabel are for you.
The glass vase belonged to my grandmother Marianne.
(*Frida Kahlo’s portrait was taken by Nickolas Muray in his studio in NY in 1939)
Japan
Saturday, 9th of April various artist will be donating some works on paper for the fund raising that the Japanese Community of Mallorca has organized under the name of
“Salvém Japó”.
+ info Salvém Japó
For this good cause I have prepared a few simple papercuts inspired in Japanese fabrics and pattern that will be sold on that day. I want to welcome you to pass by and enjoy the many activities prepared for the day. 50% of the raised money will go tho the regions of Miyagi, Iwate, Fukushima and the other 50% to the Japanese Red Cross.
International Women’s day 2011
be brave
I have created this digital cross stitch image for you. Instead of thread & needle I have used my cordless mouse…
be brave template
Dedicated to all brave women throughout time and history.
brave adj ready to face and endure danger, pain or suffering; having no fear; courageous.
Mixed feelings
Today I have left my old studio in Palma where I have been working since 1999.
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else,for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Dinner for two
Regrets, confidence, tears, joy, solitude, dreams…
shared at the dining table set for two.
A new series of papercuts I am working on after dinner.
Neurons in Es Baluard Museum
My recent collaboration with Insula Teatro for the summer nights programm of the Es Baluard Museum was a challenge. I had designed a big papercut membrane representing a neuron forest that had to be hung up without using any nails and drilling any holes into the museum walls.
The papercut was composed by 6 polyethylene fiber screens (each 6 - 7 m tall) that should work as a projection screen for the visual images I had created for this play based on three works of Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado and The Oval Potrait. I draw and cut out a hybrid neuron forest on this paper screen to emphasize the neuroscientific characteristics of Poe’s work and words.
I also ment to create with these screens a link between the musicians of the elcteronic music group Neo Tokyo that were playing life for this multidisciplinar event and the action and tension developing on the stage.
….and the final result was this:
My very special thanks to Ignacio, Adriana and Julia for your help.
The pictures of the set up were taken by Jordi from Neo Tokyo. Thanks for that!
On a white paper roll
I am working on a theater set design for the upcoming show “Horror scenes/ Escenas de terror“, inspired in short stories by Edgar Allan Poe which will be performed at the Es Baluard Museum in Palma de Mallorca during their summer night programm next July 9th, 2010.
This big white sufrace is going to be transformed into a hybrid neuron forest and will be the stage background and also a big projection area for digital images that I created for this multidisciplinar theater show.
Getting ahead
It is taking like always more time than expected…but with patience we will make this place look again like it should. We discovered a nice iron column in the centre of the space which was covered with plaster. It came back to live!
Madreselva
This type of honeysuckle ( Lonicera implexa ) grows in the forest next to my house.
It climbs over other plants and protects them as well as the animals from outer agressions.
The ovate leaves have transparent edges and the upper ones grow united surrounding the stem…like a little casserole. The flowers look very delicate with their tubular shape and pink, yellow and white shades. They are pretty ephemeral in a flower vase, but very poetic.
Origami in green
It took some time and many folds to create the flowers for Emiliy’s garden.
Don’t they say when it comes to gardening patience is a virtue?
f.ART
f.ART
Group exhibition commemorating the International Woman’s Day
Participating artist: Mª Antonia Mir, Maria Uribe, Paz Alcoverro, Svtela Georgieva, Tatiana Sarasa
5 - 21 / March / 2010
Can Planes Museu d’Art Contemporani
C/ Antoni Maura, 6
Telèfon: 971-542389
Email: canplanes@nex-ton.com
Horari: Dimarts a dissabte: de 10 a 14 h- i de 16 a 20 hores. Diumenge: de 10 a 14 hores
My new studio
My new studio…one day
In a close future this will be my new workspace and studio.
It will take some time to convert this night- bar into a clean & neat space.
The building, buit in 1910, is located in the neighbourhood of Santa Catalina and Es Jonquet, an old fishermens’s quarter. I can’t wait to move in there with my paper and scissors…!