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sandie fenton the time project sandie fenton the time project tuesday june 7 2011 waltham children s hospital commission may 2011 two horses and their friends 30 x 48 handmade hand stamped papers wall paper riveted anodized aluminum newspaper paperclips acrylics at the beginning of april 2011 i was commissioned to create two pieces a large fish clock and a 30 x 48 landscape for the children s hospital in waltham massachusetts and had to take a short break from the time project the pieces were commissioned for the newly renovated wings of the hospital which won t be complete until august of this year the requirements for the large piece were that it focus on citrus colors like yellows greens and oranges that it include horses figures cats dogs birds and fish which i added and that it include some recycle elements i added recycled newspaper articles appropriate for children paperclips other recycled papers and recycled house flashing otherwise it could be whatever i wanted it to be it was challenging to switch from the elements i ve been exploring in the time project pieces and return to working with riveted metals it was challenging too to be limited to a focus on those particular colors and to find ways to give the piece dimensionality the image above was taken in the studio before framing and will be framed by an acrylic box before installation although it appears flat in the photo many of the elements are 1 4 1 2 in relief giving it a 3 d effect i used five different adhesives and five different kinds of papers most of them laminated on house flashing metal experimenting with different adhesives took a lot of time and i logged in many an all nighter to finish the piece on time i was aided by my twelve year old friend thalia who gave great feedback and support as did chet abby will and ben fenton thanks to wendy ellertson for her support and assistance in transporting the piece it was fun and a pleasure to create something that many children will see and enjoy for years to come at the hospital i hope they discover new things each time they visit the piece if you enjoyed this post please share it with others and leave a comment thank you posted by sandie fenton at 4 43 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest memory strength and fragility 3 the grandmother i never knew 14 x 30 x 12 dowels twings wire mesh photographs threads acrylics april 2011 this is the time of year when i remember a lot of things about both my mother who died in february 1992 and my father who died in march 1983 in rummaging through old pictures after my mother passed away i came upon two of her mother one of them i had seen before and it showed a vivacious woman in her thirties then living in dallas the other older and somewhat faded i had never seen it showed a young women dressed in a way that most women would have dressed who lived in rural texas she was holding a child turning the picture over i was shocked to see my mother and her mother s name scribbled on the back i had only ever seen the other picture of helen my grandmother who looked fairly sophisticated for her day and had never seen any childhood pictures of my mother partly because the family farmhouse burned when she was a child destroying any pictures that might have been there i would never have guessed this was my grandmother at eighteen when she gave birth to my mother still living in the farm community in which she was born what transpired in the fourteen or so years between the pictures i know a little of but find myself speculating more about as the years go by my mother didn t speak often of her mother except to say that they were very close that she married and divorced three times that she had a younger son who died at eighteen that she changed her name from ella to helen sometime in her twenties and that she herself passed away from a brain tumor at forty five a few years before i was born my mother always said it made her sad to talk about it this piece grew out of all the things i ve wondered about my grandmother two of the images on the piece are the two pictures of my grandmother the other two impose half the faces of the different images onto the faces of each image creating an eerie effect one of mystery and wonder just as i try to understand this enigmatic person who loomed large in my mother s life the twigs are metaphorically part of the complexity of one s family tree if you enjoyed this post please share it with others and leave a comment thank you posted by sandie fenton at 2 36 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 6 2011 memory strength and fragility 2 haiti struggle and spirit march 2011 this sculpture is 25 x 20 x 20 and composed of painted branches and twigs held together and stitched by threads wire mesh handmade paper and bits of printed cardboard it is three sided each side is different two sides are shown below when the earthquake hit haiti last year i remembered visiting that island when i was twelve and traveling throughout the bahamas with my family i remembered the cardboard homes along the water the young men and boys who came out to the boats to dive for change the beautiful carvings and artwork that would inspire my own artwork later and the lush green countryside i came away not only shocked by the poverty i had seen on such a large scale but also by the amazing spirit of the people there my twelve year old self would probably not have described it that way but how else to describe the beautiful art dance and ritual to be found on the island i was deeply saddened like so many others around the globe to see so much tragedy unfolding the day the earthquake hit and afterward but not surprised to see the haitian people rally in the face of so much destruction to make the best they could out of what they had i made two sides of this piece shortly after that day last year and felt they were parts of something else i felt they should be standing up not hanging on a wall i like now that they lean on each other for strength i remembered the bits of old boxes and found metal and paper that made up the homes along the shore i also remembered the clotheslines full of white sheets and clothing drying in the sun last year those sheets now red as well as white covered the dead while the painted twigs in this piece are about the blood spilled during the earthquake and throughout haiti s history its also about courage and spirit if you enjoyed this post please share it with others and leave a comment thank you posted by sandie fenton at 12 52 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 24 2011 great night at stonewall last night was a great night at the stonewall institute where the time project shared dinner and its first year with over sixty guests eleven 2009 2010 time project artists shared some of their work itself and through images projected onto a large screen through readings and comments and through a short film created by time project member marnie white stanton of excerpts taken from two of our meetings the film gave a glimpse into the interaction and commentary at the meetings that have meant so much to the time project artists new 2011 member beatrice greene treated us with a performance of one of her original compositions the evening ended with a q a i always learn something new when my fellow or should i say sister time travelers talk about their work and the project the questions themselves were very thought provoking guest sajed kamal said he thought we should show our presentation to young people and those working with them to show how it s possible to create community in a deeply meaningful way that connects personally and to larger issues that concern us all in the end we had to push people out the door when our time was up bravo women of the time project may 2011 be a rich creative year and may we continue to share our journey in new ways posted by sandie fenton at 1 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 15 2011 march 23 2010 time project presentation at stonewall institute invitation march 23 2010 time project presentation the stonewall institute 43 hawes street brookline 5 30 6 00 schmooze 6 00 6 20 dinner rsvp mconnolly stonewallcommunities org 6 20 8 pm time project presentation images projected from each artist videos readings wheelchair accessible posted by sandie fenton at 4 08 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday march 13 2011 memory strength and fragility 1 february 2011 this sculpture is 4 feet tall 22 inches wide and 26 inches deep it s composed of delicate thin painted dowels painted twigs and threads that hold the entire structure together in some ways it s fragile in others it feels strong and solid the myriad of pieces are a challenge to work with since they hold together only with thin delicate threads the strength of the piece emerges only after it is completed and i found myself holding my breath that it would fly apart at any moment in fact it did fly apart and my first conception of what it would look like failed completely the piece itself as is so often the case had a will of its own it wanted to be off center precariously maintaining a balance or depending on me to find the balance ah yes that balance between strength and fragility my ideas and the will of the piece itself appears yet again usually for me upsetting and challenging and always the piece that offers a possible breakthrough and a lot to learn from kind of like the way memory works if you enjoyed this post please share it with others and leave a comment thank you posted by sandie fenton at 4 25 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest memory strength and fragility 1 posted by sandie fenton at 3 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom the time project the time project began in the fall of 2009 when eleven artists all women between the ages of 52 and 75 each committed themselves to individually create one piece of art a week for a year around the concept of time they also agreed to meet once a month to share their work the purpose of the time project was and is to provide and protect space for consistently working experimentally and deeper and to bring together a community of established and seasoned artists to share their insights perceptions and process ten out of the eleven artists signed on again for the 2011 time project and two new members joined 2009 2010 the first year of the time project i wanted to explore the connection between the written word and a visual image and decided to incorporate letters that were addressed to family members and others some living some not into pieces of art these letters were written on small prayer flags wrapped around small dowels and twigs and hidden inside coats and envelopes for the 2011 time project i am focusing on memory strength and fragility this is our journey about the artist sandie fenton sandie fenton a long time jamaica plain artist grew up in the california desert and the florida coastline and criss crossed the country many times as a child she was always a maker of objects and grew up exposed to native american and african art as well as contemporary sculpture and painting for many years she has combined an interest in color movement and form with myth storytelling and time she is currently working in mixed media and riveted metal her continuing interest in moving back and forth between the present and the past led her to create the time project in 2009 which brought together eleven established artists all women between the ages of 54 and 75 the purpose of the time project is to make and protect a space for working deeper and more experimentally and sharing the journey with a community of fellow travelers sandie fenton has participated in numerous group and solo shows her work has been represented in over 100 galleries throughout the u s europe and japan and is in many private collections she recently completed a commission for the children s hospital in waltham ma view my complete profile links http outsideindesignstimeproject blogspot com stonewallcommunities org www timegoddessproject blogspot com weepingcrow blogspot com wwwruthginsbergplace com followers awesome inc theme theme images by suprun powered by blogger