First post of the New Year, and it's ALL about decay...or as I prefer to see it, impermanence.
I am about to begin a new Moleskine rotation project (Take 8 artists, each with their own Moleskin Japanese Accordian-fold Journal and their select theme, send in an seven month rotation, each journal visiting each artist once, and end up with a glorious array of art in your moley at the end of the project), this one at illustrated ATCs. I have chosen as my subject Beautiful Decay. Here is the description I wrote in an effort to assist the project's artists:
All life is transitory.
I see rusting rivets, peeling paint on weathered buildings , an ancient man or woman, and I see beauty. Mountains worn down by time into softened crags, or worn completely away into canyons, presenting fresh vistas, exposing cake-like layers.
Everything and everyone around us is in a state of change, a state of beautiful decay. Perhaps it's a sign of my own aging, or maybe the product of seeing places such as Pompeii at a VERY early age, but I have long been fascinated by decay.
From close up or from a distance, in the ancient world or the modern, a place or a living entity, a vessel, building or something else; I'm interested in a taste of your vision and expression of beautiful decay. Note
And finally, the amazing Library of Dust project from David Maisel. Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital. The patients died at the hospital between 1883 (the year the facility opened, when it was called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) and the 1970’s; their bodies have remained unclaimed by their families.
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