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Lapsarian is from the latin word lapare: to slip, to fall, to stumble. We get our english word "lapse" from that word too. Lapsarian is defined: of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, and to the role of women in that fall.
In the book of Genesis, the first book of the Jewish and Christian Bibles, God creates Adam and Eve and places them in the Garden of Eden, forbidding them to eat fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (often symbolized in art and literature as an apple tree).
The serpent persuades Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree. Eve shares the fruit with Adam and they become ashamed of their nakedness, making coverings for themselves with fig leaves.
Later God provided garments for them of animal hides. Because of their disobedience, they were banished from the Garden of Eden, to work the ground from which Adam had been taken & made.
This assemblage piece is an attempt to visualize that story, sort of in a Tim Burton-ish way. It shows the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (shown here as an apple with teeth), with a serpent (a snake) winding in and out of it.
Eve's hand comes from inside holding an apple core. Adam, below, also has an apple core behind him, and is shown clothed with fig leaves and an animal hide (turtle shell).
"GreedEater" is mechanized angler fish, which uses money as bait for greedy homosapiens.
found object assemblage
48" x 18" x 7", wall hanging
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created this for a friend. fashioned after the most famous battered Strat in rock history, Stevie Ray Vaughan's Fender Stratocasters...although Rory Gallagher's Stratocaster was pretty trashed too! I was lucky enough to have witnessed both of these guitar virtuosos live - they live on thru their music.
Mixed materials, approx. 62cm tall, 30cm wide and 15cm high.
Materials used: old planer, inside and outside piece of an electric drill, bicycle lamp, s.o.s. locket, big caster and some other bits and pieces…
More info and photos on my portfolio at junkart.me
Mixed materials, approx. 20cm wide and 27cm high.
Materials used: ketlle, specialized moped tool, (detachable) glass cup, kids toy to catch bugs, small aerial, mini lightbulb, watch parts and some other bits and pieces…
Sculpture 2013 | Copyright © Derek Scholte
Mixed materials, approx. 59cm tall, 18cm wide and 14cm high.
Materials used: used wooden pencil box, rusty tin can, petrol tank from vintage campingstove, vintage lighter, sunglasses, airpressure meter, inline skate wheels, leather from boots and other bit and pieces.
Collage, cigar wrappers, stitching on canvas. 18" x 24". 2019, Sold, Collector Liz Alpert Fay
see detail work: www.flickr.com/photos/dembicer/31847147097
I wanted to do something with a tuba for quite a while now. The museum exhibit this coming summer was a good opportunity to create a few big objects. Enter the tuba. I found a tuba from 1932 used in a local brassband. It was too worse for wear to play anymore and was sold as a decorative object. I instantly fell in love with the worn brass with dents and other signs of wear. I really struggled with it a while, it’s a pretty hard object to convert to a machine, but in the end I am very pleased with the outcome.
Dr. Abantius’ Tubaphonic Traveller is inspired by the comics Guust Flater (Gaston Lagaffe) by André Franquin. Details like the skull gearshifter and the negative cambered wheels refer to the rat rod scene.
More info on my portfolio here junkart.me/project/dr-abantius-tubaphonic-traveller/
Created for the summer 2015 exhibition, My most intricate object up till now...Hope you like it!
Mixed materials, approx. 103cm tall, 42cm wide and 52cm high.
Materials used: 'Velo' vintage sowingmachine, used slickwheels from a gokart, 2 pieces of metal from a gardenshed - origin unknown, innertubes, ornaments from a vintage lamp, bicycle seat, jigsaw, vase, barometer, antique sound recording device, carriage clock, lenscase, leather from a jacket, flower pot, goggles, necklace, oillamp, small oillamps, bikechain and quite a few other bits and pieces...
More info and photographs on my portfolio at junkart.me.
Mixed materials, approx. 18cm tall, 13cm wide and 12cm high.
Materials used: body from a vintage DIY sander, skateboard wheels, old car lightbulb, glasses, clock-face from an old watch and a few more objects…
Mixed materials, approx. 16cm tall, 12cm wide and 19cm high.
Materials used: Shakespeare 2002GG spinning reel (for fishing), bottomplate of a flat iron and some other bits and pieces…
More pictures can be found on my portfolio at junkart.me
Created for the summer 2015 exhibition, My most intricate object up till now...Hope you like it!
Mixed materials, approx. 103cm tall, 42cm wide and 52cm high.
Materials used: 'Velo' vintage sowingmachine, used slickwheels from a gokart, 2 pieces of metal from a gardenshed - origin unknown, innertubes, ornaments from a vintage lamp, bicycle seat, jigsaw, vase, barometer, antique sound recording device, carriage clock, lenscase, leather from a jacket, flower pot, goggles, necklace, oillamp, small oillamps, bikechain and quite a few other bits and pieces...
More info and photographs on my portfolio at junkart.me.
This doodle happened while I was chopping radishes for a salad. More info about my Found Object doodles: DebbieOhi.com/LookAgain
Flight Plan - 6" x 18" wall hanging. Wooden model airplane propeller w'aluminum nose cone, "Piper"Flight Calculator, airplane trophy "topper", 3 mini toggle switches, vintage Antenna Current Indicator guage, safety light lenses and a bunch of dime-store compasses.
Rings cut from community sourced plastic white caps have been knotted together with waxed linen to form spherical shapes. White plastic golf balls were inserted into the spheres which were then knotted to each other. The dimensions are variable with approximately 9" x 9" x 9".2022
see detail view: www.flickr.com/photos/dembicer/51998515722
Mixed materials, approx. 25cm tall, 8cm wide and 9cm high.
Materials used: wheels from an old wooden toy, rusty old grater, piece of leather from my Converse sneakers, airvalves from a bike, earpiece, thingy from an old car and other bit and pieces.
detail view - Bead embroidery, encaustiflex, baby shoes, plastic charms, pearls, socks, cardboard tubes, 5" x5" x3" dimensions variable. 2021
see Full Art Work: www.flickr.com/photos/dembicer/51096975013
"Burnt Patch," an installation by the artist Andy Goldsworthy, occupies a terrace outside the main floor lobby of the San Jose Museum of Art.
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San Jose Museum of Art:
Rings cut from community sourced plastic white caps have been knotted together with waxed linen to form spherical shapes. White plastic golf balls were inserted into the spheres which were then knotted to each other. The dimensions are variable with approximately 9" x 9" x 9".2022
see detail view: www.flickr.com/photos/dembicer/51998515722
Thanks so much to Torkidlit author Claudia Osmond for hosting the annual holiday bash -- I had soooo much fun!
Attendees included Claudia Osmond, Joanne Levy, Vikki VanSickle, Urve Tamberg, Adrienne Kress, Maureen McGowan, Emily Pohl-Weary, Ishta Mercurio, Jo Karaplis, Julian Solis, Nicole Winters, Jennifer Pun, Jocelyn Shipley, Judy Irwin, Tamara Levitt, Patricia Storms, Megan Crewe, Derek Silver, Jess Keating, Charlene Challenger, Heather Jackson, Jo Swartz, Eileen Egan-Lee and Ann Marie Meyers (I know I'm missing some people, so feel free to post a comment letting me know, thanks).
For more info about work by members, see Torkidlit News: Toronto Area Middle Grade & Young Adult Authors. For more info about attending local gatherings, see the Toronto MG/YA Writers' Group (you need to get a group member to vouch for you to get in).
Bead and Thread embroidery, novelty yarn wrapped plastic rings, on linen canvas. 13.5" x 13.5" illusion floating frame 2021.
Design inspired by and adapted from 2021 Olympic graphic.
see full view: www.flickr.com/photos/dembicer/51723235664
This some functional art furniture that I made. It's a camera lamp with a slide lampshade. What do you think? There are more for sale if anyone is interested.
Mixed materials, approx. 17cm tall, 11cm wide and 15cm high.
Materials used: Vintage alarm clock, Ikea lamp, parts of a flower box, bike parts and other bits and pieces.
More pictures can be found on my portfolio at junkart.me
Mixed materials, approx. 62cm tall, 30cm wide and 15cm high.
Materials used: old planer, inside and outside piece of an electric drill, bicycle lamp, s.o.s. locket, big caster and some other bits and pieces…
More info and photos on my portfolio at junkart.me
a recent piece I created as a birthday gift for a good friend...keep the pedal to the metal Grassman!
Cup of the Day #30
Classical Cup, Version 2
By Gwyneth Leech
Color India ink on white and brown printed
paper coffee cup
I hurt my left elbow weeks ago, carrying home too many bags of groceries. Unfortunately, I am left-handed. It rather hurts to draw, which has slowed me down.
I shop on 9th Avenue pretty much every day, European style. The Big Apple Meat Market and Stiles fruit and vegetable market on 41st and 9th are usual stops. Then I head to some more interesting shops a little further South, behind the Port Authority bus station. I regularly buy raw shrimp by the pound from the Sea Breeze Fish Market at 40th street (I steam at home with Old Bay seasoning). Crabs and a wide array of whole fish are tempting; I should learn how to cook them.
A few doors up from Sea Breeze is the International Market which is crowded with heaped barrels of spices: Cumin, turmeric, paprika, black pepper corns. The intensity of the color amazes me when I have my artist eyes on after a day of painting. I buy humous, tzatziki, taramosalata, spinach pie and sometimes ground coffee, and exchange a word with the Greek merchants. Finally, I stop by Empire Coffee and Tea company for a cup of Barry's tea and often purchase a box of Scottish Blend tea bags.
A fruit stall has appeared on the sidewalk between 42nd and 43rd. The Chinese fruit seller always gives me a special price or an extra piece of fruit. Some weeks ago, I bought several pounds of fruit too many, and carrying that along with everything else the elbow was strained by the time I got to my door five blocks later.
A lot of my neighbors do this differently. They order from Fresh Direct by computer. A young man shows up every afternoon wheeling dollies stacked high with cardboard boxes. Up and down the tenement stairs he goes, ferrying the boxes to the upper floors. I am enticed, but the thought of breaking down all those boxes fills me with ennuie. Plus, I would miss my interactions with the shopkeepers, as well as the conversations and dramas in the check-out lines.
Most especially, I would miss the weekly sight of a crew of uniformed firemen shopping in the Big Apple Meat market for the makings of spaghetti Bolognese. They pull up outside in their full-size fire truck and pile into the narrow aisles of the market, baskets in hand. Really, it is worth the price of a sore elbow just to see that.
More cup drawings and NYC stories about art, life, tea and coffee
Thanks so much to Torkidlit author Claudia Osmond for hosting the annual holiday bash -- I had soooo much fun!
Attendees included Claudia Osmond, Joanne Levy, Vikki VanSickle, Urve Tamberg, Adrienne Kress, Maureen McGowan, Emily Pohl-Weary, Ishta Mercurio, Jo Karaplis, Julian Solis, Nicole Winters, Jennifer Pun, Jocelyn Shipley, Judy Irwin, Tamara Levitt, Patricia Storms, Megan Crewe, Derek Silver, Jess Keating, Charlene Challenger, Heather Jackson, Jo Swartz, Eileen Egan-Lee and Ann Marie Meyers (I know I'm missing some people, so feel free to post a comment letting me know, thanks).
For more info about work by members, see Torkidlit News: Toronto Area Middle Grade & Young Adult Authors. For more info about attending local gatherings, see the Toronto MG/YA Writers' Group (you need to get a group member to vouch for you to get in).