The show Common Box Project opens at Abecedarian Gallery this Thursday, July 9 and runs through July 18. 60+ artists, including myself, are in the show and we’ve all done BOXES, Joseph Cornell style… in collaboration with John Common & the Blinding Flashes of Light, a Denver based musical group. John Common’s comments on boxes are intriguing:
Music has a lot of boxes… or maybe it’s like boxes inside of boxes. A box of related notes is a melody. A box of words are lyrics. A box of sounds and words is a song. A box of related songs is a record. A box of musician/artists is a band.
I identified with John Commons lyrics on his new CD, Beautiful Empty. Some of his songs deal with SCARRING and HEARTS. I’m primarily a printmaker and my Arborglyph monoprints are derived from photographs of aspen tree bark SCARRING, both natural and man-made. I used two monoprints of tree graffiti hearts on my BOX, plus a wooden heart and spoon, and several pods that resembled atrophied hearts. John’s lyrics emblished the natural wood as well.
Good Heart Scars
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Hey John,
I really enjoyed listening to your lyrics and working on the Good Heart Scars box as well. I stopped by the listening party briefly. Sorry but I didn’t see you at the time… would have enjoyed meeting you in person. LINDA