This is another image from my novel, Balanced On the Edge. It is an assemblage of small toys from the 1950's, t.v. parts, and newspaper articles about the early days of television.

 

An image from my illustrated novel, Balanced On The Edge http://www.amazon.com/Balanced-On-The-Edge-ebook/dp/B007JCKG2E

Free class

I will be teaching another bookmaking class at the Blackstone Library in Chicago on July 27, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. . All materials provided,  absolutely free, and lots of fun! Come join us!

Another Show!

Some of my handmade books are currently showing at the LaCrosse (Wisconsin) public library. Here is a deer looking in the window trying to read one of the books.

Happy Spring, everyone! I am lonely and need "followers"! If you like my work, I will send you a handmade collaged postcard absolutely FREE, if you become one of my "followers." I don't like that word because I don't consider myself a cult leader or movie star, and in fact I do not like being followed. But DO drop me a line, please, and I promise I will send you a postcard in return.

This book is called "The Earth is a Garden." It is made of sticks, tissue paper, dried leaves and flowers, feathers, yarn, and a ceremonial photograph from 1910. Its contents poetically describe my approach to gardening. The book stand is made from sticks, poppy pods, and shells. The entire structure is very fragile, as is our planet.

This is a book in the belly of a man made of boxes and collaged with old newspapers and electrical parts.

We set up my display of handmade books at the Blackstone library in Chicago's Hyde Park today. I managed to fit ten books in each case. Sorry it's a bit difficult to see much detail in these photos. Everyone is welcome to go see the exhibit! Also come to my free bookmaking class on March 9, 2013. 

Here are some postcards for you to send. Hopefully they will print out for you.

"Peace, War and More War" is going to be an evocative as well as an aesthetically superb show with a mélange of genres and modalities.
Opening event: 3/9/13. About the event:
Besides visual art, the show will include poetry, music and vocal addressing War, violence and their effects on the human condition. Chicago writer Kathleen Lombardo, will read her War Ballad. George Flynn (piano) and Leila Bowie (soprano), will perform Flynn's anti-Vietnam war song "Land of Blood" and his Iraq war- song "Lament for Cindy" (i.e. Cindy Sheehan ). Twelve artists will display art that speaks loud.
"Peace, War, and more War" is about art that will stun you, may make you look back, hopefully look forward as well.
Reception, poetry reading, Music and vocal, meet the artists: Saturday 3/9/13 6 - 9 p.m at Out of Line Gallery
2812 W Chicago ave. Chicago 60622. If nothing else gained, you get free street parking and a bus stop outside the door...
The show will include a benefit for the Veterans for Peace, in support of Peace, Common sense and social Justice.
Veterans for Peace work for universal Peace, social justice, LGBTI and all other human rights. They endorse common sense causes such as ending the War on Drugs with a deep understanding of the socio-political factors underlying them.
A percentage of artists' sales will go to Veterans for Peace."



Lindia Platt, here showing her collages, has had her artworks exhibited at Metal Works Gallery, the Fine Arts building, North Lakeside Cultural Center, Woman Made Gallery, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, and a one-woman show at Daley College in Chicago. She has also shown in New Orleans, Santa Clara California, Canada, and as a participant in the Art Money movement in Denmark.

I'm dyeing! Tie-dyeing, that is. I like how this cotton gauze turned out. Also dyed a bunch of old doilies and lace. Not sure what I'll do with them.

Another show

My artwork will be in another show during March! "Out of Line" art gallery in Chicago will have a group show with the theme "Peace, War, and more War." Several of my collages will be included, three from my novel. The gallery is on Chicago avenue, just east of California.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Out-of-Line-Art-Gallery/505185046169774

             This is my most recent quilt, an adaptation of an old pattern called "spiderweb".

         This is the back, with strange hybrid creatures captured in the quilted webs.

                                                         Detail of Catterfly woman.

                                                
                                  Detail of the rare, long-legged, Turtlefoot Cardinal

      Some of my first posts were of other Hybrid Creatures that I created in my laboratory during our long Chicago winters.