Fabelist News
FABELIST is an international arts, literature and performance community. Participants collaborate to make work across boundaries and, expose the process behind their work on the online blog. Established practitioners benefit from a supportive environment and regular feedback on their work in progress from a pool of fellow talented contributors. They, along with Fabelist’s professional mentors give encouragement to younger unrepresented individuals to achieve their potential. Current Project: 'Connect'
Connecting With Shadows by EC
I’ve been working on three paintings. Below is a detail from a painting in progress. I started working on this when ‘Connect’ was announced as our next project. Before getting down to it I had a bit of a rant about the connections between the subjective and the objective In Greek mythology, Nyx (Νύξ, “night”), ...
Work Progress in Pictures by Chantal Powell
Last week I shared some images that are a direct influence on the sculpture I’m creating that explores my connection with artificial flowers. This week I’d like to share images of how the actual piece has progressed from its beginning to the point I am currently at (which is just before beginning work with the flowers). ...
Rachelle Allen-Sherwood – Connecting The Dots
My first project with the Fabelists is “CONNECT”. So over the past week or so, I’ve been pondering, researching and just generally lettting the brain synapses have a good workout making connections with ”Connect”. (Great word, by the way!) Next, I looked up the definition and found this : con·nect (k-nkt) v. con·nect·ed, con·nect·ing, con·nects v.tr. 1. To join ...
An Interview with Joseph Drapell by Giovanni Emmanuel Uribe (via Francesca Goodwin)
I was fortunate enough to receive an email last week, from a fellow artist Giovanni Emmanuel that contained material to really make me sit up and take notice. Giovanni is from Mexico but studied at York University, we have shared much correspondence over the past months concerning our shared belief in the powerful influence of ...
Ryan Seslow :: NYC February Street Installations 2012
A New Cement Keyboard Street Installation has hit NYC in early 2012. Technology is ephemeral, more so than we think, yet we are co-dependent on it, and feel discomfort when it is not accessible. This installation is a metaphor for just that. The keyboards are cast in cement, and then fractured. They are not usable ...
Connecting with my difficult emotional spaces – Zoe Catherine Kendall
I am really enjoying this project so far. It is very cathartic for me to be connecting with these tricky spaces which I began revisiting whilst having psychotherapy. They are primitive, early emotional spaces held within my mind which I have struggled with before and which benefit from hindsight. I am using my hindsight and ...