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Last week's Affordable Art Fair included a few pieces by the UK's Rebecca J Coles ("working with paper & scissors") who - get ready - deep breath - applied her scissors to postage stamps to make little butterflies ... lots & lots & lots of little butterflies.
Rebecca J Coles' blog entry about "the stamp series"
examples from both postage stamps and other types of "paper"
One thing's for sure: she works for the money.
Q/ Any stamps-into-art projects that caught your eye?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Hey, maybe I can commission her to find me a bulk lot of GB number cancellations to sort through...BEFORE she cuts them up!
(Spotted a 4-pence with a "26" cancellation on it, in her scrap pile. Kinda surprised that there are 19th century stamps in there. Expected "dross" to be all modern stuff).
Still dragging for C51, C60, C61, and D26 among others - all Caribbean offices. That D26 is apparently quite scarce.
-Paul
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Check out The Holocaust Stamps Project original site, where students created art from the donated stamps.
I'm working on getting some schools involved to replicate that in the Second-Generation HSP (Canada) project.
Dave.
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Dave, Is the holocaust project still active? Do they still take stamps?
I accumulated another pile of material that I can donate.
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Yes Jules, thanks for asking. The Project is still a going concern. Roy helped set up a website but so far I haven't been able to figure out how to get more stuff on it. I was hoping my daughter would help but between schoolwork, working part time for her University, and having her first serious boyfriend I've been out of luck.
The address is still the same (it escapes me right now, but look under members for "holocaust stamps").
Dave.
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I think that there is enough dross out there that I do not need to take offense when artists turn postage stamps into art.
Last week's Affordable Art Fair included a few pieces by the UK's Rebecca J Coles ("working with paper & scissors") who - get ready - deep breath - applied her scissors to postage stamps to make little butterflies ... lots & lots & lots of little butterflies.
Rebecca J Coles' blog entry about "the stamp series"
examples from both postage stamps and other types of "paper"
One thing's for sure: she works for the money.
Q/ Any stamps-into-art projects that caught your eye?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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06:49:14am
re: Stamps into Art
Hey, maybe I can commission her to find me a bulk lot of GB number cancellations to sort through...BEFORE she cuts them up!
(Spotted a 4-pence with a "26" cancellation on it, in her scrap pile. Kinda surprised that there are 19th century stamps in there. Expected "dross" to be all modern stuff).
Still dragging for C51, C60, C61, and D26 among others - all Caribbean offices. That D26 is apparently quite scarce.
-Paul
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re: Stamps into Art
Check out The Holocaust Stamps Project original site, where students created art from the donated stamps.
I'm working on getting some schools involved to replicate that in the Second-Generation HSP (Canada) project.
Dave.
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re: Stamps into Art
Dave, Is the holocaust project still active? Do they still take stamps?
I accumulated another pile of material that I can donate.
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re: Stamps into Art
Yes Jules, thanks for asking. The Project is still a going concern. Roy helped set up a website but so far I haven't been able to figure out how to get more stuff on it. I was hoping my daughter would help but between schoolwork, working part time for her University, and having her first serious boyfriend I've been out of luck.
The address is still the same (it escapes me right now, but look under members for "holocaust stamps").
Dave.
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