Seedplanter’s Porch

I don’t have a trained eye in critiquing art, but I do know what I like. I know what pulls an emotional response. Sometimes the response is negative, and other times it makes me want to see more.

This week I completed a lens that began when I ran across an unusual art form online. I’m admittedly behind the curve when it comes to the latest, greatest anything in the art world, but let me just say that this woman captured my attention and sent me off in a flurry of researching to find whether others were doing what she has done.

Have you heard of Altered Books? I hadn’t. They’re not scrapbooks and they’re not dressed-up journals. They’re actually a form of recycling that becomes art when someone like Karen Hatzigeorgiou steps in. Check out her altered books and also the amazing wall hangings she makes from paper sculpting used books. I’ll never step into a used bookstore again without thinking of her.

Artists with Pizzazz! focuses on three artists, each unique and remarkable in their own right, who crossed my radar this week. My Art Appreciation professor from college days would be proud of me for noticing.

New to Squidoo? Make your own lens today!

Image by Santa Claus…!!! via Flickr

Tags: art, artists, books, paper sculpting, squidoo lens

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at 9:13 am and is filed under art, inspiration, squidoo. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.