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loved this reflection from the outside window and tried to isolate it here a little.
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Pictures from the 11/23 (2012) Trunk Show hosted by Michele - A Bridal Boutique to introduce designer Allison Parris to the area.
The Brampton Quilters' Guild's own Elaine Theriault presented a trunk show about group quilts sharing quilts that she has had a hand in constructing.
Here is a link to her blog:
Christopher Sykora
Travel Series
Acrylic, graphite, & collaged media on found suitcases
2009
My goal is to attach meaning to experience and attempt to see multiple perspectives during the artistic process, or journey. With the Trunk Series, I was trying to find an alternative to the traditional canvas, something that would convey a sense of humanity even before applying any paint. I have had a fascination with old, abused and disregarded suitcases and trunks for some time, collecting them as I rummaged through garage sales and thrift stores. They are works of art that provide a feeling of individuality, ownership and privacy. The choice to begin painting on them came as an obvious one for me.
People are always moving from one place to another, whether it is emotionally, physically, philosophically or ideally. Not unlike the changing of the seasons, this is something that happens on impulse and can never be stopped. It is in the human nature to be nomadic, explore and discover. These are the driving factors in our evolution, both as a race and as individuals. In fact, our existence on this planet is due to our need to move and therefore adapt. It has often been a concern of mine that we are loosing the ability to adapt, throwing the suitcases to the side, becoming overwhelmed with society and giving up on the journey. This series is my attempt to make a physical and emotional association to this person, and persuade him or her to become creative and start a new journey.
The journey is the destination.
-- Dan Eldon
Benjamin Bontempo
Home again home again jiggedy jig
Performance
2009
For the artist, travel is physical. The inevitability of relocation, to pursue personal goals or with the intention of being closer to important resources, lives in arms and legs, and is made real by muscle and blood. This performance is a partially improvised exploration of the most basic parts that make up movement and the relocation of the body from place to place. A piece of luggage, the handle held in a person’s hand on his / her way out the door, holds in it the necessary tools with which to both move and resettle, and can be perceived as an extension of the body. Luggage is storage space, a kind of dead space in which objects rest, protecting these objects from change in transit. The objects transported in a piece of luggage can be thought to remain the same until the person who is transporting them has arrived, changed, and in removing them changes his / her things forever. The play in which a traveler’s objects act stays the same; they speak the same lines; but the stage has changed, and every movement in the space is different and, for a while, perhaps uncanny.
Ben Bontempo received his Bachelor of Arts in Theater Performance from Simon’s Rock College in 2007. He has participated as a performer in the Berkshire Fringe Festival, the Southern Berkshire Concert Series, and the Castle Hill Theater Company. He feels most comfortable performing in full mask, without words, in a free space.
this is pretty much all I do for my trunk shows lay it out and they go for it. They love the simpleness of it and no speech about hosting parties and tier systems of selling LOL friends shopping with friends
Cheese tray with grapes and Ritz crackers (not used) in Sharing Toronto article about Celine, fashion eye wear in Toronto as experienced in the March Celine Trunk Show & Sale at Spectacle - Queen Street West.