tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44427906052060643432024-03-05T14:36:32.103-05:00Paper With A PastSara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.comBlogger391125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-3577130029505851712016-02-04T12:18:00.001-05:002016-02-04T12:18:39.648-05:00Straight from the heart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Yes, this blog is supposed to be about paper, but I'm veering to mention a work of art I saw recently at Cincinnati's <a href="http://www.kennedyarts.org/" target="_blank">Kennedy Heights Art Center.</a> The overall exhibition <a href="http://www.kennedyarts.org/content/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/hanging-out.html" target="_blank">"Hanging Out"</a> features work by women in a group called Art4Artists. They meet regularly, and work on individual pieces as well as collaborative ones.</div>
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The piece that so surprised and moved me was "Sandy Hook's Children: In Memory." It was created by Cincinnati fabric artist <a href="http://patstatzer.net/Pages/AboutPat.html" target="_blank">Patricia Shuler Statzer</a> as her heartfelt reaction to the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 during which 20 children and six adults were shot and killed. She told me about it in 2014. She had been making it not because she planned to show it, but because she was <i>compelled</i> to. </div>
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When you walk into the gallery it first looks like a celebratory banner. Step closer. It is deceptively simple in its imagery and technique, which makes it all the more poignant and heartbreaking as we learn a bit more about each child.</div>
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-2158589181647278642015-12-20T08:07:00.005-05:002015-12-20T08:14:08.035-05:00Whew. Last show of the year<div style="text-align: center;">
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The new coffeehouse/art space is hosting this short and sweet show today. I'm stocking<br />
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Here's a look at details of the images inside the 2016 calendars, all reproductions of my collages. Most of the pieces were created in 2015, and many of them have not been seen before by the public since they were made for a special project or just for the calendar ...<br />
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I field questions almost daily about my greeting cards, most of which re-use antique and vintage images. It's fun to talk about where material is found (flea markets, book sales, auctions, etc.), the process of scanning and manipulation, which can be extensive.<br />
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Images from <i>my</i> archive are the only ones used. This way, I know exactly where they came from (which is explained on the back of each card) and there's no worry about permissions, etc. Respecting copyright is a concern of mine, so copyright-free images are all I use. (Copyright is complicated; find out more at the U.S. copyright office <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/" target="_blank">web site</a>.)<br />
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Some images are works-in-progress; tweaked before their next printing (oh, the printing? done by me). Complicated, antique engravings are the most difficult to reproduce clearly, and often require a pixel-by-pixel facelift. But the best way to explain the process may be via the evolution of a recent card …<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girl illustrating a story in the Dec. 1873 issue<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The card looks a little bare, so a gradient<br />
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On the hunt again. This time, for endpapers. You know, the papers pasted into the front and back of books. Specifically, antique endpapers. With any kind of pattern from marbled to narrative to floral. The worse shape they're in, the better, since they're being cut up for a big new collage project: a Victorian crazy quilt made entirely of paper.<br />
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The hope is that that in the end, it will look similar to the quilt above, a fabric family heirloom belonging to my friend Mary Heider. Since Victorian women used the overlooked scraps from other sewing projects as their material (waste not, want not), it seemed that endpapers would be appropriate. Some look like fabric. Some look quite luxurious. Others are drab. Of course, they also are papers with a past, another reason to use them.<br />
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The point is to mix them up willy nilly (not as easy as it seems for an artist used to putting things in order) on the quilt. Then, to embellish and embroider it to the nth degree.<br />
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It started with this block of pieces glued onto book cloth. Book cloth was picked, because I knew it would adhere to paper well, would be easy to sew through, and I wanted some kind of fabric in the piece. But the backing has since been switched to rice paper, in keeping with the all paper theme. Different glues are being used depending on the endpaper: PVA, gel medium, even some double backed tape. <br />
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Here are close ups of two more squares … on the top one, you can see what I mean about papers that look like fabric. On the bottom one, an antique embroidery pattern from Peterson's magazines is inserted. At the bottom are more antique embroidery patterns that will be used in place of traditional embroidered ones. I searched my archive specifically for patterns printed with faux stitching. <br />
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Once the individual blocks are finished, there will be 12 or 20, then the crazy embroidery begins. For it, I'm using vintage embroidery thread that belonged to my late mother. It will be my winter project. Then, the decision comes whether to join the blocks together to make one "quilt" or to hang them separately (but very close to one another) on cradled wood panels. <br />
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The exhibition this is being made for is a solo exhibit of my work titled "Remnants" that opens mid-June at the <a href="http://www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org/" target="_blank">Loveland Museum</a> in Loveland, CO.Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-2527337729509749062015-10-09T12:24:00.001-04:002015-11-16T02:35:17.600-05:00Tonight's the night<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The images above? Designs for 15 new seed packets in the Hudson Valley Seed Library's annual
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of the artists, chosen from a field of 400 or so, to design one of the 2016 Art Packs.<br />
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Mine is No. 14, and tells the story of how archeologists discovered that snow peas were planted
in prehistoric times. The variety: Giant Swiss Snow Peas.<br />
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For the collage, I used an antique map of Switzerland to create the mountains, layered vintage
wrapping papers with cut-out snowflakes for the sky, dug up an antique engraving of an archeological expedition for the bottom, as well as snow pea "fossils" created from antique engravings, and - finally - vintage images for the vivid flowers of the pea vine, and I ended up designing the peas using a vintage illustration as my inspiration (yes, I try to use original paper only in my work, but had to improvise<br />
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It's exciting to be selected, because years ago I wrote about the program on the old blog.
Love the idea of the company continuing the tradition of great seed catalog/packet art that thrived in
the Victorian/Edwardian eras, the heyday of chromolithographed catalogs now coveted by collectors.<br />
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The packets and catalog will be available Nov. 1, 2015. There's <a href="http://www.seedlibrary.org/vote-for-your-favorite-cover" target="_blank">a vote on through Friday Oct. 9</a> to pick one of the designs for the 2016 catalog cover. Just sayin.'Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-53041864552530123062015-08-02T11:18:00.002-04:002015-08-02T11:18:38.908-04:00Same place, but new studio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, the last post reported that I was back in the studio after a five-month absence while undergoing chemo. Six weeks later and I'm in a <i>new</i> studio, but still at Cincinnati's <a href="http://www.brazeestreetstudios.com/" target="_blank">Brazee Street Studios</a>.<br />
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It's a much larger space in what's nicknamed the "Brazee Barn," a pole barn behind the main building that was converted into a space for four studios. It's a light-filled studio with five windows (including a trio that open), super-high ceilings, and enough room to work on some of the larger pieces I have in mind for "Remnants," my solo show next summer at Colorado's <a href="http://www.lovelandmuseumgallery.org/" target="_blank">Loveland Museum</a>.<br />
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Here's a glimpse of the big move …<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piling up boxes in anticipation, along with a moving dolly<br />lent by my studio neighbor, mosaic artist Joyce Kaufman.<br />The dolly proved indispensable for moving furniture. </td></tr>
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-18658187303381817462015-06-14T21:34:00.003-04:002015-06-14T21:39:39.253-04:00Ah, back in the studio, finallyThe studio's been a mess, with all manner of goodies piling up as I've recovered from the final round of <a href="http://paperwithapast.blogspot.com/2015/03/right-thing-wrong-time-maybe-maybe-not.html" target="_blank">heavy-metal chemo</a>. Now, I'm back to the regular, not-so-toxic infusions (though with an additional drug whose side effects are still manifesting themselves). No matter. I spent last week in the studio working on collages for the Carnegie's 2015 <a href="http://www.thecarnegie.com/call.php" target="_blank">Community Supported Art</a> project, and have been on a tear. But before getting to all the cutting, tearing, and pasting, there was stuff to sort, and put away, including …<br />
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an assortment of odd/cool chemistry lab beakers and test tubes (a donation to Brazee from a high school teacher) that will be used as part of the "Miracles" series, when I return to it …<br />
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… a selection of museum-quality frames (thanks to my friend Nick Paddock) that also are earmarked for the "Miracles" series …<br />
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… engravings, and more engravings that had to be scanned before being used, and which are destined for the Carnegie collages … you can see the start of one of the collages above, and a closer view of it below ...<br />
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I'll be posting plenty more images since there will be, gulp, 50 collages in the series!Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-32198112255971014412015-05-25T16:31:00.000-04:002015-05-25T22:01:11.174-04:00Memorial Day back when it was Decoration Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought I had posted Memorial Day postcards from the archive in the past. And had planned to link to them, but a search through the blog did not turn up a single one. Odd.</div>
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So, I scanned in a batch. As the headline notes, Memorial Day began as Decoration Day, a public tribute to those who had fought in America's Civil War. My holiday postcard collection contains images from before 1919, so it reflects this initial celebration, which later morphed into a day to acknowledge all those who fought in our country's wars.</div>
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I'd like to think that I do not believe in war. I've marched against war on many occasions, and been arrested during a few of them. But even I know that there are times when war has been necessary, and that whether I back a war or not, I do respect those who have served … including two of my brothers, my father, quite a few of my uncles, and others in the past.<br />
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Two postcards by artist Ellen Clapsaddle (above) that were published by the International Art Publishing Co. of New York and Berlin. Both were printed in Germany. The one on the left was never mailed; the one on the right is postmarked Cleveland, May 27, 1912.<br />
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So, I reached the end of the heavy-metal round of chemo, and am celebrating by throwing open the doors to the studio for the second <a href="http://blog.brazeestreetstudios.com/2015/05/open-studios-this-friday-may-8-6-9pm.html" target="_blank">Open Studios</a> of the year at Brazee Street Studios.<br />
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Yes, I may be a bit wobbly, and more than a bit bald, and bruised. BUT the weather is fabulous, there are some new greeting cards in the studio, plus copies of <a href="http://www.pomegranate.com/a238.html" target="_blank">"Harper Ever After"</a>, the Charley and Edie Harper book I penned the essay for, for sale ($5 off the list price), and the studio is freshly painted, and cleaned (thanks to the loving Mr. P and The Kid).<br />
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On top of all that, a cool exhibit is opening in the <a href="http://www.brazeestreetstudios.com/home/c-link_gallery.html" target="_blank">C-Link Gallery</a>, and there will be lots more happening throughout the Brazee campus from glass blowing demos to ballroom dancing (not kidding).<br />
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Look for me on the first floor, right across from the gallery!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Note:</b> image above is from a recent find: Vol. 3 of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana or Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, London, 1845.</span>Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-82706000582783955162015-04-12T08:15:00.000-04:002015-04-12T08:35:54.466-04:00How can this be? Light where dark was expectedThis is the moment in chemo that I call the dark night of the soul. When the steroids that have been propping me up in the days immediately following treatment, stop working, and the chemicals take a nasty turn.<br />
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But, something surprising has happened, instead of curling up into and a ball, and retreating into myself (in short: throwing an internal pity party with me as the solo guest), I'm filled with light, and joy.<br />
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It is not an epiphany. At least I don't think so. No. It's the accumulated impact of hundreds of small, but genuinely heartfelt, things during the past four months.<br />
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It is Joe and Pat Moellers dropping off a ginormous vase of daffodils from their garden yesterday afternoon ... the shasta daisies from Pat Frey still abloom on the dining room table, along with the vivid yellow tulips from Mr. P that smell like honey … and the vivid bouquet of mixed flowers atop the mantle from Carol and Jon Falk ...<br />
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It is the snail mail cards and notes, many handmade, others bought because they were handmade, that arrive almost daily ... the card signed by the staff of the Friends of the Library shop (where my greeting cards are a teensy part of their business), the graceful card and "courage" bookmark made by calligrapher Maryanne Burke …<br />
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It is the bag of inspirational books that Peg Rhein dropped off, along with a few additions to the collage stash … the goofy care packages from Betsa Marsh of snarky books whose pages hide "Downtown Abbey" quotes, funny news clips, and Monopoly money (the latter is a whole other post) … the "mix-Nano" from Michael Roberts that drowns out the worst moments …<br />
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It is kielbasa from Buffalo via John Byczkowski, who holds out the hope that I will be able to taste it sooner or later … the warm pot of chicken chili that Julie Engebrecht dropped off that came complete with an array of garnishes (fresh cilantro, corn chips, grated cheese) <i>and</i> dessert from the Bonbonerie … the lunches at Jo-Beth's cafe on two of my "good days" with Carol Kerr, and Betsa Marsh ... <br />
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It is the tiny crystal angels sent by my baby sister, Helen, and the socks to wear to chemo that say "fuck this shit" … the cards sent by my sister-in-law Ann Caswell in my older brother Rick's stead (he's recovering from his own health problems) … the surprise call from my baby brother, Matthew …<br />
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It is the e-mails from my Aunt Marlene and my friend Shirley Tenhover when they have not received an update in a while … the news about what's happening in everyone else's life that helps me stay in touch, and to think beyond myself … the offers of rides, the visits in the chemo suite by Leslie Daly and Kathy Holwadel, the brief "art field trips" with painter Lisa Molyneux ... <br />
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Yeah, this is starting to sound schmaltzy, like "a few of my favorite things." Yet there is one more thing to mention …<br />
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It is the healing image of a deer grazing among white aspens, surrounded by the herd; an image given to me months ago by Mary Hargrove and her spirit guides.<br />
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Those who know me well, know that I'm not exactly a "healing image" kind of person. I went along with it during the first round of chemo/radiation in 2009/10 as a favor to my friend Betsa. "Can't hurt," I told myself after much cajoling to pick an image.<br />
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Back then, I settled on the moon. During the darkest times, I imagined walking along a beach under a moonlit sky, waves gently lapping my bare feet, a slight chill in the air. It was soothing, yet something was missing …<br />
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I was alone.<br />
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Not that everyone wasn't supporting me in the way they are now; they were, maybe even more so, because the Stage 4 diagnosis was so sudden, and alarming. No, it was me. I was determined not to be defined by cancer, not to be needy, not to be hurting, not to be afraid ... in short, not to appear weak.<br />
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Part of that lingers, but it has been surpassed by the knowledge that the more you give, that the more you open up, the more you get. So, my thoughts have turned to the good things in life, and that's where they will stay, as I graze among the aspens in the clear light of a spring afternoon … surrounded by my herd.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"> "WORD IMAGE OBJECT," the new exhibit in the gallery</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"> by Miami University Department of Art students.</span></div>
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<br />Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-75564224219323174302015-03-28T08:30:00.000-04:002015-03-28T08:31:35.382-04:00Right thing, wrong time? Maybe, maybe not ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes, the right thing happens at the wrong time.<br />
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Last summer, I received an e-mail from Brett Harper, the son of the late Edie and Charley Harper, asking me if I would be interested in writing the main essay for a book about his parents' early work as artists.<br />
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Flattering? You bet. Was I interested? No.<br />
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A few days before the message hit my in box, I'd decided it was time to stop up writing about other people's art, and to focus on my own art. I'd already quit writing for an online arts zine, and for a local monthly.<br />
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But, hmmm, a book? It would be a one-shot deal. It would pay the studio rent for a nice chunk of time, freeing me up to work on collage series I kept putting off. And it would be about artists whose work I enjoy.<br />
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So, I said yes. The publisher, <a href="http://www.pomegranate.com/" target="_blank">Pomegranate Press</a>, was fantastic to work with. I had complete access to the Harper archives, including the letters that Charley wrote to Edie during World War II, which Harper archivist Chip Doyle had finished scanning just before my deadline. There were plenty of surprises along the way, and although I don't find writing to be easy I love the research and ended up having - dare I say it? - fun!<br />
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Topping off this dream job: the editing process was painless; a few questions and tweaks, and that was it.<br />
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Fast forward to now, the week of Harper Ever After's official release. A <a href="http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/03/21/harper-ever-time-capsule-art-love/25017741/" target="_blank">huge feature</a> about the book appears on the cover of the Sunday Cincinnati Enquirer's A&E section. Books start landing in stores. PR begins. Where am I? Here's where we come to the second part of "right thing, wrong time."<br />
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I am lying in bed for days on end. My stomach is churning. My fingers and toes are numb. My nose won't stop bleeding, and my eyes are so watery there are times that reading is impossible. I can't taste much of anything, but eat because I know I have to. My hair is gone. My bones ache. Waves of nausea run over me. Cold sores blanket the inside of my mouth.<br />
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In short: chemo. My Stage Four breast cancer, which my incredible oncologist has kept at bay for a little more than five years, is active again. We discover this by accident. Complaints about pain in my right hip, which I am convinced is <i>not</i> from cancer, lead to a PET scan.<br />
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I was right; no cancer in my right hip (it's later diagnosed as bursitis). It's in my left hip, left femur, left ribs, and spine.<br />
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Well, damn. Cody (that would be Dr. Robert Cody) swings into action. My regular maintenance chemo, which is really more "bio" than "chemo," gets ramped up with two more drugs. One is Taxotere, a drug that whomped my butt during my first high-level chemo adventure in 2009.<br />
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Ugh. Do NOT want it. What was it I said, maybe yelled, after the initial chemo was ending? Oh, yeah, "I will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER do this again."<br />
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But the past four years have been so incredible ... the start of a new career, and business; The Kid's graduation from college (which I was certain I would <i>not</i> live to see), then, her Master's Degree; Mr. P's continuing love, humor, and pending retirement; amazing times with friends and family.<br />
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I bite the bullet.<br />
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Three months have passed. There are two more treatments to go. It takes longer to bounce back each time, and I start withdrawing from the world and into myself. Then, I pull myself back out again. Not by myself but with plenty of help from family and friends. True friends come through at times like this, ignoring my inclination to hide.<br />
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In early May scans will determine whether this has worked (fingers crossed). Those will be followed by a quick operation in June (a problem caused by the chemo).<br />
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By July, I'll be raring to go. Actually, I'm raring to go now, and do have windows of feeling relatively okay. Usually a few days before the next treatment. But even then, it's been impossible to work on collages. So, I've focused on the greeting cards.<br />
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As for my 15 minutes of fame, via Edie and Charley? Even if I'm not gadding about shooting selfies of me with book displays, fielding interview questions, or massaging a sore wrist from book signings, I've come to realize that maybe this isn't such a wrong time. Opening the front door the other day, and seeing the box of books on my front porch was the perfect pick me up. I still can't stop smiling.<br />
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-90997226875617779582015-03-17T11:39:00.001-04:002015-03-17T11:56:47.815-04:00A Porkopolis St. Pat's Cincinnati picked up the nickname "Porkopolis" back in the 19th century when this river city was a center of the pork packing industry. The name stuck, even long after the last pig ran through our streets. Pigs also have been a long-time symbol of abundance and prosperity. So, after spotting this trio of delightful St. Patrick's Day postcards in the archive (the physical archive, not the electronic one), I just had to share them; all were published by London's Raphael Tuck and Sons in its St. Patrick's Day Post Cards series No. 106.<br />
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-6130041178520474162014-12-31T12:17:00.001-05:002014-12-31T12:17:09.526-05:00Ohhh, baby, a New YearI gathered together some of my favorite early 20th century babies welcoming in the New Year from the archive to share here. Enjoy … and Happy New Year!<br />
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-6527847872487273812014-12-22T00:59:00.000-05:002014-12-26T13:25:56.884-05:00A very Victorian ChristmasOver on the Paper With a Past Facebook page, I've been counting down to Christmas with daily posts of Victorian cards from my collection. It suddenly dawned on me that the images ought to be posted here, too, for those not on Facebook. Enjoy …<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MERRY CHRISTMAS. The final card.<br />Published by Boston's Louis Prang in 1881.</td></tr>
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-37656206719138271532014-12-10T10:41:00.001-05:002014-12-10T10:41:53.866-05:00Two sassy "You Said It, Sister" holiday cards<br />
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I tend to be sentimental when it comes to designing holiday greeting cards. But while restocking the card above from the "You Said It, Sister" line for a shop, it occurred to me that it could be converted into holiday card for Christmas <i>and</i> Hannukah. So here they are, fresh off the printer … they're available in the studio, at <a href="http://www.theframerycincinnati.com/index.html" target="_blank">The Framery</a> in Hyde Park, and sometime today, at <a href="http://indigenouscraft.com/" target="_blank">Indigenous</a> in O'Bryonville.<br />
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<br />Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-35602940682867730862014-12-06T07:49:00.001-05:002014-12-06T07:49:13.927-05:00Not a moment too soon … 1st annual Christmas poster<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I so wish that in July, someone would dump snow into my studio and pipe in continuous holiday music. That way, I might get on schedule with my holiday greeting cards, tags, etc. But, no, here it is Dec, 6, and what am I doing? Designing a new card, and, "wait," she thought, "why not turn it into a holiday poster, too."<br />
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So, I have. Both the card and poster debut this weekend at the Showcase of Art at the Woman's Art Club of Cincinnati, which opens this morning at - gulp - 10!<br />
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For the design I used one of my favorite Christmas images in which tiny children dance around a ginormous Christmas tree laden with all kinds of goods from the practical (soap, coffee, furniture) to the whimsical (candy cones, fish, toys).<br />
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The tree is adapted from an engraving a black-and-white engraving in the January 1882 issue of St. Nicholas, a popular American children’s magazine published by Scribner’s. The pastries are from “The Trade’s Cake Book,” by T. Percy Lewis (MacLaren & Sons Ltd, London, 1912). I altered their colors substantially to make them more fanciful.<br />
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The 11" x 17" poster is titled "Sugar Plum Tree," and is a limited edition of 25 signed copies. It's printed with archival ink on Legion Paper's Somerset Enhanced Velvet 100% cotton rag paper. It may be the first of an annual series of Christmas posters. And, who knows, maybe next year's will be designed earlier.<br />
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-35893872979267817342014-11-18T11:53:00.003-05:002014-11-18T11:54:44.126-05:00Impossibly sweet ...Eight new collages were added to the Sweet Petites collection last week, and I have to say that they're adorable. And since adorable is not what I do generally, they came as a surprise.<br />
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M.T. Ross' whimsical illustrations from the 1910 edition of Elizabeth Gordon's "Flower Children," were used for the main characters, which may explain how they ended up the way they did. I wrote about <a href="http://paperwithapast.blogspot.com/2014/04/whew.html" target="_blank">my obsession</a> with the images back in May, when I was about to sell some of the other originals at Cincinnati's City Flea.<br />
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Of course, I HAVE to create their opposites, or Not-So-Sweet petites. Stay tuned for those ... meanwhile, here are the cutie pies, which can be viewed in the annual "Multiplicity" holiday show at Cincinnati's <a href="http://www.brazeestreetstudios.com/" target="_blank">Brazee Street Studios</a> …<br />
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-61726665088803611652014-11-16T12:05:00.002-05:002014-11-16T12:11:46.338-05:00Holiday madness!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just posted this Studio Schedule on the Open Studios page, but thought I'd post here, too …</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Additional holiday hours at Paper With a Past studio</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">12:30- 9 p.m. Friday Dec . 12 </span><span style="color: red;">*</span><span style="color: #222222;">see below</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday Dec. 13</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday Dec. 18</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday Dec. 20</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Antique and vintage paper from the archives</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that is artful enough on its own </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">to be framed and hung on a wall,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">from maps, fashion plates and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">children's book illustrations</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some are matted, some are not.</span></div>
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-70056767998552332992014-11-09T11:33:00.000-05:002014-11-09T11:34:44.216-05:00Never, never land ...It was just a coincidence. <a href="http://www.cballet.org/" target="_blank">Cincinnati Ballet</a> is performing "Peter Pan" this weekend, and while in the attic looking for books to serve as props in an exhibit, I found an edition of "Peter Pan" that I'd forgotten about.<br />
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It's the Whitman Publishing Company's oversized "Peter Pan Picture Book," published in 1931 and illustrated by Roy Best. Confirming my theory that all roads lead to Ohio, I discovered that Best was born in Waverly, Ohio, and, of course, attended art school in Cincinnati.<br />
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The book is falling apart, but even so, its pages are in good condition. The soft, enchanting illustrations of Tinker Bell and Peter are my favorites, even if Tink is a tad too pin-up for me. Little did I know, until I began researching Best, that he's best-known as a pin-up artist. Not racy pin-ups though, a bit more wholesome, girl-next-door.<br />
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The bright, cartoonish Captain Hook paintings don't appeal to me, so you won't see them here. Chances are that<i> all </i>the illustrations will find their way into the "Stuff I Can't Bear to Cut Up" files ...<br />
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Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-34433114283019868932014-11-01T07:30:00.000-04:002014-11-03T23:09:51.904-05:00Of magic and loss<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">© La magia y la pérdida</span></b></i><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> (magic and loss): </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">uno, dos, tres</i>2014<br />Mixed-media collages by Sara Caswell-Pearce.<br />Made with <i>original</i>, antique anatomical and botanical illustrations;<br />vintage fabric transfers; recycled greeting cards; silvered skeleton leaves;<br />ink, marker, watercolor; archival glue, archival varnish.<br />8" x 8" x 1" on cradled, hardwood panel.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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This year, for the first time, I created collages for <i>Dia de los muertos</i>, the exuberant Mexican "Day of the Dead" celebration of loved ones who have departed. The collages are collectively titled "<i>La magia y la pérdida</i>" or "magic and loss," and are being shown in "Momento Mori," a group exhibition curated by Cincinnati multi-media artist Ursula Roma. It opened on Halloween rather than today to take advantage of Cincinnati's Final Friday art walk in Over-the-Rhine.<br />
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Ursula hatched the plan soon after her 50th birthday, when she began thinking about what was ahead, and, yes, mortality. It also happened that her brother had recently lost all his belongings in a fire, so she is donating the 50% commission on sales to him.<br />
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When asked to participate, I was unsure. I'd been steering clear of holiday-themed pieces. Then, an idea came to me: I'd use original engravings of skulls from my antique medical books to create a different take on the traditional <i>Dia de los muertos</i> skull motif. The skulls would be surrounded by a magical garden of beautiful, delicate flowers (a bit more subtle than the holiday's usual super-bright flowers) that would weave from one collage to another.<br />
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As work began, I found my real inspiration in my late brother David, who died many years ago at a young age; my late sister Cindy, who died last year; and my mother, who died almost two decades ago at age 69.<br />
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I started thinking about the Halloween celebrations of our childhood, which were nothing short of magical, and that magic was largely of my mother's making.<br />
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She directed every holiday with zeal, and this was no exception, from baking special treats to taping up the ubiquitous Beisle cut-outs of skeletons, witches and pumpkins, to making truly over-the-top costumes. Sometimes, we received costume help from our talented neighbor George Yokum, an artist who worked at the "Mike Douglas Show" back then.<br />
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One year, Cindy and I were magnificent angels with fantastically large, feathered wings. Another, we were playing cards. Nicely done, except that the boxes used were a bit too long, and we had trouble negotiating steps.<br />
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David was two years younger than me, and Cindy less than one. My older brother, Rick, was just a year older than me. So, we were a close-knit band of trick-or-treaters. It was a neighborhood populated with kids our age, yes, Baby Boomers. Halloween was terrific, and exhausting, fun.<br />
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Afterward, we tried to see who could make their candy last the longest. 'Til Thanksgiving? No problem. Christmas? Maybe. New Year's? Don't count on it.<br />
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So, I've dedicated the pieces - which like families are interconnected, yet separate - to my siblings, and mom, and to magical moments.<br />
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<br />Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-15383575929065203542014-10-11T09:40:00.001-04:002014-10-31T11:33:06.552-04:00One more mushroom, and "Behold, Beets"I did tweak "Miracle of the mushrooms" a bit by adding some vintage Dresden stars to it. Here's a peek at it, along with "Behold, Beets," the second collage in the Everyday Miracles series …<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>© The Miracle of the Mushrooms</b> (2014)<br />Mixed-media collage on hardwood panel by<br />Sara Caswell-Pearce. Made with hand-painted<br />antique engravings (<i>Costumi dei Secoli,</i> 1837;<br />Reference Handbook of Medical Science Vols. 2,3, 1886),<br />vintage magazine illustrations; vintage Dresden stars<br />ink, marker, archival polymer varnish, archival glue.<br />12" x 16" x 1"</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sara Caswell-Pearce. Made with hand-painted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">antique engravings (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Costumi dei Secoli,</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1837) and<br />antique illustration (D.M. Ferry & Co. seed catalog);</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vintage magazine illustration; vintage Dresden wings<br />ink, marker, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">archival polymer varnish, archival glue.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12" x 16" x 1"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(sold) </b></span></td></tr>
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<br />Sara Caswell Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665369110971352258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442790605206064343.post-53379113245301595992014-09-28T13:50:00.000-04:002014-09-28T13:53:26.298-04:00Everyday miracles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few weeks ago, I posted the photos above on Facebook. I was playing around with a grouping for a new collage series with the working title of "Miracles" that explores the awesome nature of things we now take for granted, such as the food we eat. But it will not be limited to food, that's just how it started a few months ago in my head.</div>
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The backgrounds are vintage magazines images of famous antique paintings. The figures are from "Costumi dei Secoli," an early 19th century Italian book that's been <a href="http://paperwithapast.blogspot.com/2014/07/gulp-looks-like-scanning-isnt-done.html" target="_blank">a big scanning project</a> for me for far too long.</div>
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The hand-painted figures are remarkably vibrant, especially when you take into consideration that they are from 1837, were in a two-volume set that was falling part and had seriously foxing, and were not archival stored. I've been itching to use them for years, and thrilled to finally be doing it.</div>
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Here's a look at how the piece, "The Miracle of the Mushrooms" has progressed. The changes are subtle, primarily moving around mushrooms, debating whether the women should be holding them, etc. The mushrooms are from plates found in a variety of antique botanical and medical books, and recycled wrapping paper that duplicated mushrooms from an early edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.</div>
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Look for photographs of the second collage, "Behold, the Beets," later this week.</div>
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This is supposedly the final version, but am testing<br />
additional mushrooms on the bottom left, before I seal it. </td></tr>
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