Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog.
Design and Letterpress by Studio on Fire in Minneapolis
....I.......speechless .....................................(though i did manage to ask them if i could have a tour of the studio and see the *magic* in action when i am in town : )
Title Quote: William Carlos Williams, of e.e. cummings
I love using vintage materials in collage, and Kariann does it in such
a way that amazes me. It's so different, she uses such a variation of
materials and yet she has a really fluid style. I recommend you take a
look at her collages, she has such a collection!
Name (Real or Screename): Kariann Burleson
URL (Blog, Website): www.dailypoetics.com, http://flickr.com/photos/dailypoetics/
Location (Where are you from?): Midwest, USA
Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: Circumstantial. Accidental. Constellating: inspiration + intuition + paper + glue = inside story.
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A:
Graphics + words, vintage, random fragments, textures, perhaps
wallpaper, book pages, calling cards, postcards, ledgers, sheet music,
receipts, paintings, letters and portions of book cover—anything old
torn apart. Paper and ephemera, materials that probably qualify as any
or all of the following: precious, abandoned, discarded, refused,
remaining, patina, sediment, stained, unwanted, underneath, behind,
humble, unnoticed, mundane, found, delicate, ignored, sentimental.
Found vintage photographs—I often like to use them as a starting point.
I am seized with wonder—of the stories, the lives that are for but a
second, captured and documented within those photographs.
l start on the note of a feeling, of wonder, and follow it through to a
almost satisfaction. Old leltraset and other transfers or substances
for added detail and texture or flourish. Small to really tiny
fragments of text cut from books, newspapers, magazines and such as
part of the story's possibility. My own memorabilia—letters, book
pages, artwork, photographs. Found handwriting script and other
typography, graphic images from vintage books or catalogs, paint, ink,
lead, sheet mica, and whatever is in front of me really ...
Circumstantial whatever it might be ... minutiae.
Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A:
Since I was a kid I have been fascinated with ephemera and
paraphernalia and I have always made some sort of collage: it probably
started when in class as a kid—we had that well-known assignment of
making a wish-box, or found poems from images and text cut out of
magazines—I fell in love with this sort of intuitive, random and
inspiration-driven medium for expressing one's questions, affirmations
or dreams. I started because both, I have an insatiable need to seek
out and to share/translate beauty and what I see, feel or love ... I
have been focusing on vintage and found materials for about 3 years or
so.
Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: Background in interior design and styling/visual merchandising. Currently working on my art and ideas for other ventures.
Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: No.
Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A:
I like so many for different reasons, more based on my feelings about
them than for their potential aesthetic quality. Right now I am most
attached or moved by a recent one: I used one of my best friends
grandparents' photo in it (I had been enamored for years of this sweet
photo). I haven't titled it yet but it makes me think/feel of longing
and happiness, imperfection and love, surging and tenderness,
melancholy and preciousness (lots of things), and all the things that
make life and this being human sacred and exhilarating. I like the ones
that I completely can't figure out how I did it or where it came from,
like, there was a message that was revealed to me more than a feeling
as if I told it ... I don't like to feel too much in control then I get
stuck, I like to let go. Of course most of them sort of seem that
way—which is why I can't stop. Seems meditational, serendipitous, even
magical then—almost essential if just for me— that's enough.
Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: Joseph Cornell,
Marcel Duchanmp, Jenny Holzer, Cy Twombly, Martin Creed, Bruce Nauman,
Maurizio Nanucci, Emmanuel Polanco, Eduardo Recife (I personally see
them all as poets as well as artists).
Thanks Kariann!
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Let them into one another sink
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-Rilke
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Title Quote: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Title Quote: Maya Angelou
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Title Quote: John Thompson
Exhibition: Demonstration 2 at Velvet da Vinci Art Jewelry and Sculpture Gallery, San Francisco.
Title Quote: Emily Dickinson
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Title Quote: Chinese Proverb
There is not a particle of life that does not carry poetry within it. -Gustave flaubert
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